As you can see on CNN, there are not only the Dixie-Chickens and the Pope against you Mr. Bush. Your fans do not seem to be on the internet nowadays.

Remember your own and your colleagues statements listed below for easier understanding:

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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

Dick Cheney - August 26, 2002

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

George W. Bush - September 12, 2002

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

Ari Fleischer - December 2, 2002

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

Ari Fleischer - January 9, 2003

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.

George W. Bush - January 28, 2003

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

Colin Powell -February 5, 2003

We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the
dictator tells us he does not have.

George Bush - February 8, 2003

So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

Colin Powell - March 8, 2003

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

George Bush - March 17, 2003

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the
operation, for whatever duration it takes.

Ari Fleisher - March 21, 2003

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be
identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.

Gen. Tommy Franks - March 22, 2003

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman -
March 23, 2003

One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.

Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark - March 22, 2003

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

Donald Rumsfeld - March 30, 2003

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty.

Neocon scholar Robert Kagan - April 9, 2003

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

Ari Fleischer - April 10, 2003

We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.

George Bush - April 24, 2003

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . .
.. so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Donald Rumsfeld - April 25, 2003

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

George Bush - May 3, 2003

I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

Colin Powell - May 4, 2003

I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Donald Rumsfeld - May 4, 2003

I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program.

George W. Bush - May 6, 2003

U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons of mass destruction.

Condoleeza Rice - May 12, 2003

I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're
still hidden.

Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne - May 13, 2003

Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found.

Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps - May 21, 2003

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff May 26, 2003

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Donald Rumsfeld - May 27, 2003

For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.

Paul Wolfowitz - May 28, 2003

Quotes shamelessly stolen from:
http://billmon.org.v.sabren.com/archives/000172.html

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Das Dienstbüchlein

erhältlich für jeden Schweizer Dreibeiner gegen
CHF 90.-- (im Nichtbezahlungsfall 3 Tage Haft) bei jedem Sektionschef.

Dem Kreiskommando Zürich an der Kappelergasse 2 steht ein wohl nicht alltäglicher Besuch bevor.

Ich, ausgerüstet mit einer Vorladung, die sich kein ziviles Unternehmen je leisten würde, wenn es sich durch den arroganten, ultimativen und beherrschenden Ton mit dem Adressaten nicht gleich von Anfang an verscherzen wollte, betrat das zuvor beschriebene Gebäude, mit leicht aufgewühltem Gefühl im Bauch.

8 Jahre habe ich in Thailand als Auslandschweizer gelebt. Nun bin ich wieder hier. Ich habe mich des Vergehens schuldig gemacht, bereits das 2. Dienstbüchlein vernichtet zu haben.

Nachdem man mich vor 12 Jahren mit allen Ehren aus der Schweizer Armee entlassen hatte (UC), war ich nicht weiter gewillt, mir Pflichten zur Aufbewahrung dieses Büchleins und damit verbundene An- und Abmeldevorschriften, die mit persönlichem Erscheinen verbunden waren, aufzwingen zu lassen.

Bei der Schweizer Botschaft in Bangkok hatte ich vor 5 Jahren darum gebeten, mein (?) Dienstbüchlein für mich aufzubewahren und mir auf keinen fall zuzustellen, da ich es sonst in den nächsten Klong werfen würde. In Thalwil konnte ich mich vor 8 Jahren nur ins Ausland abmelden, nachdem ich gegen meinen Willen einen Antrag für ein neues Dienstbüchlein ausgefüllt hatte. Als Grund des Verlustes notierte ich seinerzeit: Wegen Nichtgebrauchs verbrannt.

Offensichtlich nahm man mich immer noch nicht ganz für voll, weshalb mein 2. Dienstbüchlein nun mit anderem Müll auf dem Grund des nächsten Klongs der Swiss Embassy liegt.

Für die Registrierung der Kindsanerkennung meines Sohnes benötigte die Botschaft beinahe 2 Monate, das Dienstbüchlein hatte ich bereits 2 Tage nach meiner Anmeldung in Rangsit, 40 km nördlich von Bangkok, in meinem Briefkasten.

Milionenkredite werden von der Botschaft problemlos beglaubigt, aber für die definitive Aufnahme meines Sohnes als im Ausland geborener Schweizer Bürger
musste ich dann doch extra die 12 000 km nach Bühler (Appenzell Ausserhoden) reisen, um dort persönlich in einem dicken Buch (Register), das ja verständlicherweise nicht nach Thailand in die Ferien geschickt werden konnte, zu unterschreiben.
Dies war gemäss dem Eidgenössischen Departement für Aeussere Angelegenheiten die einzige Möglichkeit.
Wäre mir in Asien vorher etwas zugestossen, wäre mein Sohn für immer staatenlos geblieben.

Genug ausgeschweift. Das Fräulein im Büro 23 sagte mir, nachdem sie meine radikale Meinung, auch inskünftig kein Dienstbüchlein besitzen zu wollen, und dafür verantwortlich gemacht zu werden; sie sein ja schon noch froh, dass sie meinen Fall nicht bearbeiten müsse. So führte sie mich daraufhin einen Stock höher, zu ihrem Chef.

Dieser war von meiner Idee nicht sehr begeistert, und klärte mich dahingehend auf, dass es meine godverdammte Pflicht sei, un ich mich wie jeder andere auch an´das öffentliche Recht zu halten hätte. Auf meinen Einwand, dass mir weder er, noch die Armee, noch das Eidgenössiche Finanzdepartement was zu sagen hätten, da ich ausserhalb ihres Einflussbereichs stehe, entgegnete er vollen Ernstes und schon ganz rot im Gesicht, dass ich im Kriegsfall erneut vor UC gestellt würde um dann anschliessend nochmals ausgehoben und eingesetzt zu werden. Gottseidank haben wir keinen Krieg....

Dennoch schien er begriffen zu haben, dass es sich bein mir um einen hoffnungslosen Fall handelte und er meinen Autoritätskomplex nicht kurieren könne. Und so bot er sich dann doch noch an, mein (?) Dienstbüchlein ab sofort, wie übrigens auch für andere Fälle aus der Obdachlosenszene, bei sich aufzubewahren. Ich nahm ihm einfach nicht ganz ab, das jemand bei vollem Verstand ernsthaft ein Interesse daran aufbringen könnte, ein Dienstbüchlein zu klauen. Vielleicht sollte man dazu einmal eine Statistik der Pass- und Kreditkartendiebstähle als Vergleich heranziehen.

Als letztes Argument fiel ihm dann noch ein, dass ich ein Dienstb+chlein benötige, um darin meine geleisteten Militärpflichtersatzzahlungen abstempeln zu lassen. Ich wandte dagegen ein, dass wohl eine Belastungsanzeige einer Bank über den fraglichen Betrag vor jedem Betreibungsamt oder Gericht ausreichen müsste, und ich ihre vorsintflutlichen Methoden auf keinen Fall unterstützen könne.

Jetz sitze ich da, haben einen grünen Einzahlungsschein über CHF 90.-- zugusten einer unserer heutigen Gessnerhüte und weiss nicht, ob ich ihn bezahlen soll, wie ihr es alle tun würdet und auch tut, oder ob ich wegen einer Lappalie und meiner Ideologie zu einem kriminellen, vorbestraften Objekt abstempeln lassen soll.

PS: Ich habe die Rechnung vor 8 Jahren bezahlt und bin bei den Schweizer Betreibungsämtern unbekannt.