Brooks, honesty

Bob's criticism of Brook's column appears to be a disagreement about the relative merits of honesty, candor, and directness versus diplomacy and cunning. However, this is not the issue. The problem is that Bush and his administration have been neither honest, straightforward, nor candid, especially about the connection between Saddam's regime and terrorism. I don't think I need justify this last point to this group. I would be quite happy to risk whatever daggers the international community might aim at the American kidney if it were only because we were candidly, honestly, directly doing what we had to for our own safety from terrorism.