Iran,the president and the truth; i think?

Outside of the an occasional UFO sighting, the next rarest sighting is a Presidential news conference. Yep, the president went before the public and laid it all on the line. First he stated that it would be totally ridiculous to think that anybody in his administration would fabricate a story that the Iranian Government is suppling our enemies in Iraq with munitions. I tend to agree that the Iranians are doing that exactly, but, I also remember WMDS and the fact that they never existed. So the president's creditability has gone out the window and the truth in all of this is that the real war is in Afghanistan and our troops there, as well as, their NATO Allies need more support, support that was taken from them some four-years ago so that we could put democracy's noose around a dictators neck.

WAR, n.
A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity. The student of history who has not been taught to expect the unexpected may justly boast himself inaccessible to the light. "In time of peace prepare for war" has a deeper meaning than is commonly discerned; it means, not merely that all things earthly have an end -- that change is the one immutable and eternal law -- but that the soil of peace is thickly sown with the seeds of war and singularly suited to their germination and growth. It was when Kubla Khan had decreed his "stately pleasure dome" -- when, that is to say, there were peace and fat feasting in Xanadu -- that he

heard from afar
Ancestral voices prophesying war.

One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night. A.B.