Readers are implored not to believe for a minute that the President has changed any policy in his push for continuous wars--"serial wars," as we prefer to call them. The impossible restrictions placed on the UN Arms Inspectors assure that they will be forced to report every minute finding, which are to be judged from afar in Washington. In addition, US military operations, which have continued since the war ended on paper, are being conducted at an accelerated pace all over Northern and Southern Iraq, which will eventually invite an incident. The result will be finding that Iraq is in violation of the U.N. resolution regardless of what is found or not found. Do not think for a moment that our President and his very expert Warmaker advisors, including Colin Powell, have seen the light and are now turning toward the pursuit of peace.

There are at least two reasons why President Bush may want to appear to be separating himself from the ECR. First, George Walker Bush does not want to look like an absolute Islamic hate monger on the very eve of the bombing of Baghdad by being too closely associated with Christian racists, even if they are among his most stout supporters. He appears to want to curb the excessive rhetoric of the ECR with a mild rebuke, but without dampening their resolve for war.