<HTML>loupaulsen@attbi.com wrote: >Doug, remember last week or so Powell was saying that it was pretty certain >they would get the war resolution through the Security Council, and you >asked "would Powell say that if it wasn't true?" Doug: Yeah, I remember, and I'm glad it's looking like he was wrong. But they must have known this at the time, so I still don't understand why he'd say something with confidence that wouldn't work out a week later. Was it part of the sales effort, or are they thoroughly self-deluded? ^^^^^^^^ Charles: When you raised this , what popped into my mind was Bush saying he would get Bin Laden Dead or  Alive. Here it is a year and a half later and they have failed to do that, but the American peanut gallery doesn't care/remember.  Their attention span , memory , reasoning is similar to that of a three year old. </HTML>