Bill Denton wrote:

But the ONLY thing I was discussing was actions by Iraq. The actions of
the House of Saud were not being discussed either directly or by
inference. The House of Saud was totally off-topic!

Not really. You've indicated that Bush has been honest in literal
interpretation if not in implication. That Bush cites the actions of our
enemies as grounds for attack while ignoring those same actions on the part
of our putative allies is more of the same.

BTW, any parent is familiar with this:

Parent: You've not been doing the dishes
Child: I did the dishes once.

The reality, though, remains the same. The child has not been doing the
dishes with the necessary consistency, and Bush's actions in Iraq have left
nations like N. Korea and Iran freer than they'd otherwise be because he
expended lives and respectibility on the wrong enemy.

We don't even need to consider the more complex cases of what's going on
today w/in Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.

- Andrew