as a past participant in the local ToastMasters group, I would surely
like to see Bush join a group for a month or two,

it would certainly improve his image as a person,,,,,,,,,

I wish he had the time to do so,,,,,,,,,

I've watched his speeches a few times, and feel a bit sorry for
him,,,,,,,,

I do feel he has the countries best interests at heart,,,,,,,,,

So do I. I just think he's a power monger along with it. I watched
him last night on CBS when confronted with the negative Kerry bashing.
He tried to say that he was against the ads but stuttered and tripped
up so badly (because it was extemporaneous) that he appeared to be
either lying or at least concealing his real feelings. Unless he
practices, he comes across very poorly when hit by the media "on the
spot."

But, I do agree with you Richard that the Bush baby is a patriot and
does have the country's best interests in his mind and agenda. My
problem is with this Iraq war. I told many of my friends that I was
going to be real ****ed off if they went over there and killed one
American soldier and didn't have complete proof of WMD's before they
made that commitment. Now it appears they fired John Tenant (head of
the CIA) and had no such intel. If you read Bob Woodward's book "Plan
of Attack" you'll see that Powel and Bush were backed into a corner by
Cheney and Tenant. Bush asked Tenant many times if they had the
SIGINT and were positive of WMD. Tenant's reply was always, "It's a
slam dunk Mr. President."

Why didn't Bush require tables and inventories of the actual WMD? I
would have. He got scarred when Cheney and Tenant kept telling him
that Saddam could fire a SCUD into Tel Aviv and wipe out Israel at any
time which would make the world look upon the U.S. as a paper tiger.
They kept hammering Bush about how stupid he was going to look when
Iraq fired upon Israel with Anthrax or Vx. Bush got worried. Then
the Soviets and Tony Blair jump on the band wagon and tell Bush they
have SIGINT that confirms WMD too. So, the rest is history.

Well, my question is, where are the WMD?

However, one must keep in mind that these devices are small. All of
Iraq's WMD could be buried in one sand dune the size of my garage and
Saddam could have killed all the people associated with the hiding of
them so there would be no intel leaks.

And... the satellite intel showed 18 wheelers leaving the backs of
palaces as the UN inspectors drove up to the front doors. Saddam was
trying to make it look like he had a lot to hide. He was ****ing with
the wrong people and it cost him.

After reading all the books I can get my hands on about what led up to
this, I'm afraid that I would have made the same decision to go take
out Saddam that Bush made. That brutal 8th century barbarian needed
to be stopped. I just think the price we are paying right now in
human life is too high. We need to get the **** out of there and
leave that ****-hole to the rats who live there.

BWB