That would be if Powell GAVE a blowjob.

there really isn't much to say, is there?  Anybody with half a brain knew they were all lying about Iraq after 9/11, and anybody who really read the news objectively knew that the UN inspectors had been very effective all along.  What's way more disturbing is how the U.S. press has played along with the Administration for four years.  I don't get it.  Or perhaps they are afraid they'll have their White House press passes revoked.

It might sound difficult to believe, but there's an off-chance that Powell and Rice were sincere about what they said when they said each comment they made.  And that's the problem with using bad intelligence.  It might sound scary to imagine that politicians believe what they are saying, but one is safer to assume sincerity than to assume a lack thereof.

Imagine if members of the Bush administration were debauched...  Would it make any difference among Bush detractors?  Nope.  Those who hate the Bush administration would still hate it, and those who idolize his administration would probably not believe anything bad said about his cabinet.  Likewise, the Monica Lewinsky scandal got press because radical Republicans were fishing for something, anything, to impeach President Clinton over.  And they finally found a flimsy case that has hurt the nation.  (If Clinton had been impeached over letting missile technology go to China in exchange for campaign contributions, I would have supported that.  It's too bad that Republican fishing expeditions obscured some real criminal activity.)

It seems to me that we live in a political culture where it is standard to assume insincerity from one's opponents and enemies.  And that's too bad, because it is not only rude to assume insincerity from people who are sincere, but it is dangerous as well.

And since Im a conservative, I don't fall into the Kerry camp either.  The fact is Bush wanted Saddam removed from the time he came to the WH and 9/11 was just an excuse.  A means to an end.  Had W gone after Iran or N. Korea I would have wholeheartedly supported him.  But he had a hard on for Saddam from day one and used 9/11 to stick that hard on up saddam's ass.