The State Trooper who’d culled me out of the crowd at 85 mph found little humor in my reply, “I was practicing for my trip on I-5 to LA…”

“My radar says you broke the law!” was the Trooper’s reply.

I could relate to the Trooper’s reaction last night when I heard the President read from this script,

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“Yet it was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power. He was given an ultimatum – and he made his choice for war. And the result of that war was to rid the world of a murderous dictator who menaced his people, invaded his neighbors, and declared America to be his enemy. Saddam Hussein, captured and jailed, is still the same raging tyrant – only now without a throne. His power to harm a single man, woman, or child is gone forever. And the world is better for it.”

I was in a hurry and paid $453 for my haste.

President Bush and his PNAC cohorts were in a hurry when they told us the U.S. was “45 minutes away from a terrorist’s mushroom cloud”, when they sent Colin Powell to the United Nations with a pack of lies and when the President uttered that 16 word lie in his State of the Union address.

Well over 100,000 dead in Iraq is the cost of the Administration’s haste “…and the world is better for it” is all the President can say.

Then there’s the NSA and the Pentagon’s CIFA who’ve been caught spying on U.S. citizens in their homes, offices and public libraries.

Is the world a better place when our government considers itself beyond the reach of the law?

 

It is true that Saddam Hussein had a history of pursuing and using weapons of mass destruction. It is true that he systematically concealed those programs, and blocked the work of UN weapons inspectors. It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. And as your President, I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq.