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i figured it out!

i finally came up with the one unimpeachable reason that i oppose war with iraq. now, i am not a pundit of any stripe. i am not as well informed as some, and i'm not as riled up, one way or another, as most. i'm not even as hard-core liberal as you (paul robichaux, this means you) might think. so it took me some time trying to see the other side, trying to overcome the shadings of the so-called liberal media, to get down to brass tacks with my gut resistance. and its tasty little kernel is this:

ari fleischer lies so extravagantly that i'm surprised whatever god may be doesn't set his hair on fire. donald rumsfeld lies and chuckles good-naturedly as he does it. the entire lot of them: liars, damned liars. i don't believe them about what bush eats for lunch. how can i believe them when lives are at stake?

don't get me wrong. i'm well aware that politicians lie. it's a job requirement. and i'm well aware that there are certain issues pertaining to national security that should be concealed. you don't have to tell me everything (though i gotta tell you, boy george, it looks a little shady when you start slamming doors before anyone's even knocked on 'em). all i ask, if you want my support, is that you not be quite so obvious, quite so brazen in your falsehoods. you work for me, so how about not fudging your timecard?

i don't want to rant. (no, really.) but the question that keeps poking the back of my brain with hot little needles is this: if i couldn't believe you about little things, why should i believe you about the big ones?