If a police sniper has a bead on a criminal holding a gun to a hostage, he could assume that perhaps the gun is unloaded. It's certainly possible, right? Never mind that the same criminal had purchased large quantities of ammunition in the past, and had blown the brains out of hostages in previous situations.

A tyrannical leader with a proven and known history of developing, constructing, and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, including an advanced nuclear weapons program, and a history of actually using them on neighboring nations and his own citizens, goes out of his way to convince not just the outside world but most of his own leadership that he is in possession of such weapons. Hell, he may have believed it himself.

Every intelligence agency on the planet believed this, including the CIA through two presidential administrations.

And now, somehow Bush, and Bush alone, is being condemned for drawing the obvious conclusions.

The antiwar arguments have largely divorced themselves from reality. It's already obvious that liberating two nations is now totally irrelevant to them, since this was not laid out as the number one reason for invasion. Heck, I have become nearly certain that had a complete load of weapons of mass destruction been found in Iraq, not one person would have changed their attitude about Bush. It's already obvious that Kay's testimony went in one ear and out the other, aside from the single phrase "no stockpiles." I'd bet no more than four people here even bothered to listen to it.

Getting a bit tired of it all. The Democratic Party and most of the media will be dedicating themselves to the single purpose of destroying Bush by November. The barrage is going to be endless. I may just have to give up reading the news for a while.