I really suggest people go to the library and read a few pages out of Thomas Friedman's "From Beruit to Jerusalem." There is a section in the book that really explains a part of the culture in the middle east that is coming back to bite us right in the ass.

Next, I suggest people go and read up on how the current adminstration used the intelligence gathered by the CIA. Through all the reading I have done, I believe the CIA is going to come out all right on this and here is why. There has been a huge and strangely quiet battle going on between the CIA and Pentagon over Iraqi intelligence. And from the start, the CIA has been more cautious in the accuracy of its intelligence than the Pentagon has wanted.

Take Ahmed Chalabi. The CIA has always been critical of his information (This is the many who persuaded Cheney American forces would be treated as liberators) but the Pentagon has used tons tons of his information.

But I go back to an earlier statement - people should be fired over this. Take Rice for example. How outrageous it is that she is allowed to testify before the 9/11 commission while not under oath. She has been caught lying already (recall months back when she said she had not been told any information about terrorist information about planes and buildings and then all of a sudden her underling came up with two memos in written form telling her such, as well as him saying he verbally told her of such information).

Still, to me, what is going on in Pakistan is more alarming. We have taken our eyes off the ball (Al Queda and bin Laden) and look what is going on. Ponder this for a moment. Things are so bad in Pakistan right now that the president there has just pardoned a scientist for selling nuclear weapon information to many people. Then on top of that, think what it could mean if this president would happen to be assassinated.

Frankly, compared to all of the other areas, Iraq really is a drop in the bucket to when it comes to Amercian safety. And we have wasted too many resources in regards to Hussein instead of on these other more pressing issues.