I run a $318 million enterprise with almost 1,200 employees. Its my job to make certain that people do their jobs right. When they're careless and error-prone, its my responsibliity.

Now with any large organization, you are going to have some bad apples, but I never make any important decision while checking and rechecking the advice and "intelligence" I rely upon from staff.

George Bush made the biggest and most important decision any "CEO" can ever make - the decision to go to war - a decision to send American troops into harm's way and risk the lives of thousands of innocent civilians - a decision to spend hundreds of billions of dollars of his customers' money. He made that decision on the basis of advice and intelligence from his staff.

Now if I make a bad decision on the basis of bad advice or intelligence, the consequences are significanly less compelling than if George Bush makes a bad decision and the basis of bad advice and intelligence. And in George Bush's case he had the advantage of having other countervailing inputs of advice and intelligence that should have given him great pause before taking this country to war.

Mr. Bush told the American people was necessary because Iraq possessed hundreds of tons of chemical and biological weapons that could be used against American citizens. He claimed that Iraq was within a few months of having a nuclear weapons. He claimed that Saddam was in cahoots with Osama Bin Laden. None of these things proved to be true.

In the meantime, nearly 900 American troops have died in the deserts of Iraq. And thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens have succumbed to collateral damage. And, hundreds of billions of American taxdollars have been spent. All on the basis of flawed and careless "intelligence." In the world of business, no Board would retain their CEO under such disreputable circumstances. The American people should expect no lesser accountibility from their commander in chief.