speaking of mcclellan, i saw him speaking to anderson cooper last evening and expected him to say something terrible like the old excuse for going into iraq was to avenge his dad, etc, but surprisingly, he said the spin was put on wmd while the president really wanted to go into iraq because he has a vision of democracy in the middle east to which he is very commited and he really believes in the importance of iraq to this vision. personally, i don't think this is such a terrible quality in a leader. even though my beautiful grandson is deploying to iraq next week, i do believe that freedom for people in the middle east will overcome the seething hatred of these young men who have had no hope but radicalization in their closed-off society. i guess "vision" can never be proved until it has resulted in its goal.....let's hope he is right.