In response to the many who have asked me why I have neither been convinced of the necessity of a war with Iraq nor been convinced of an inherent evil to Hussein by the alleged "facts" made claim by George W. Bush Jr. in his State of the Union address, I point out that we know for a certainty that people in our government have lied to us with falsified "facts" about Iraq before: "The 1991 Persian Gulf War was justified, in part, by the testimony before Congress of a Kuwaiti woman that she was a hospital worker who witnessed Iraqi soldiers rampaging through her hospital, stealing baby incubators after dumping Kuwaiti babies out on the floor to die. SHE WAS NOT A HOSPITAL WORKER, AND IT NEVER HAPPENED. She was the daughter of a highly placed Kuwaiti family, and this invented story was part of an intentional campaign to enflame Americans to support the war." so why believe them now? Whether intentionally misleading the public or simply the naive victims of falsified information themselves is irrelevant -- there is strong precedent for considerable skepticism for anything we hear from the government on Iraq, including in a State of the Union address. ===== ~ solvitur ambulando ~ "The problem is solved in the walking." [-- St. Augustine] * * "Not all who wander are lost." [-- J.R.R. Tolkien] * * . . I'm on an unnamed walkabout . . . . with no whither nor whence __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com