Explain please
what we were so afraid of. If I remember correctly -- and it is likely that I do because it was only a few weeks ago -- we ostensibly went to war because the Iraquis were a threat to our national security. (Don't bother to try to distract me with that humanitarian argument. We all know perfectly well that we didn't invade Iraq to save it.)

So where are all of those weapons o' mass destruction?

Surely we did are not going to spend the already allocated $79 billion and the reconstruction costs that range from $20 to $60 billion a year for a decade to chase down some empty bunkers. Oh they might have contained something you say? There are papers there you say? Well yes indeed.

Oh perhaps they have been spirited off to Syria. Yes indeedy. Perhaps they are in North Korea or Atlantis. Or ... well the possibilities are endless.

Whatever happened to the well trained, fierce, and fearsome Special Republican Guard? Wasn't this the very same Republican Guard that President Bush the First treated with such awe during the first Gulf War. Were they lying to us? Is our intelligence really that dreadful? Are they hiding behind a wall someplace ready to jump out and say "boo"?

This is truly not making any sense to me. I understand that the Bushies were cranking everybody up because he wanted to prove something with his little war. But I also believe that they didn't think that this invasion would be less effort than cutting butter with a hot knife.

The must have actually believed they could cough up a cannister or two of sarin or an envelope full of anthrax to wave about on TV. So is our intelligence really that woefully inadequate? Or are they so absorbed in a Rovian delusion that they simply don't listen to anybody but themselves.

Now I am very afraid.