Thanks for the words of sanity & wisdom -
The 1st link speaks for itself - the wisdom it contains is very self evident. I am sure there is no deliberate freudian slip in the naming of the source paper 'Weakly Standard' - that name is clearly apparant in the content starting with the 1st sentence of the article.
Re the second link, it covers part of what Ritter called Butler a liar over & included some of the words & reason that Ritter resigned over but which Ritter says was subsequently blatantly distorted into a completely different meaning. He said on CNN that this was the lie Butler was telling and reinforcing.
Point about Ritter is that apart from any vulgar and tawrdry (& as yet unproven) innuendo & character assasination, that he is being being bribed & is not capable of speaking from a position of authority, I have to say that on a scale of 1 to 100 I'll give him 90 & your sources 10 and I feel that is being generous.
Your approach seems to be ignoring that this Iraq matter, in the way it is being handled, is doing immense damage to US in the wider world but even greater than that is that people will be killed in big numbers. There is no simple way President Bush can overthrow the government of Iraq.
To do so requires from us people of the world *credible & reasonable* evidence - it isn't good enough for you to tell us Saddam is "gunna get us & we are suckers to believe he won't". It is far easier to believe that the worlds greatest statesmen of our day have more depth of perception and understanding of what is actually taking place than some of the material presented here as 'evidence' and apart from Tony Blair almost alone in UK - no other great statesmen including Powell seem to see merit in wthe line you are peddling.
Doug