A Brief partisan Thought Experiment:

inspired by Tim Russert's appearance in Imus today in which he lauded the President's "decisiveness".
The President has many more apologists than he does virtues-if we start with that premise then consider this:
WHAT IF George Bush had been a good boy and joined the Air Force after graduating Yale in 1968 instead of hiding out in the Air National Guard?
WHAT IF He'd gotten shot down over Hanoi like John McCain and sent to the notorious "Hanoi Hilton" as a POW?
IS THERE ANY DOUBT that faced with the prospect of torture in extremis that GWB would've signed anything and rosily turned on his own country?
Hell he'd be on Radio Hanoi's shortwave service today reading crop harvest yields and editorializing about the diresome necessity for all of Asia to collectivize it's agriculture.
Angry little bullies like George are almost never hard-core true believers in anything...they'll run ahead of any gale so long as it appears they are forcefully leading the storm.

JohnIAT@aol.com