Former Colorado Senator Gary Hart continues to test the waters for a presidential run. An hour-long recently taped interview of Hart will air tonight on Denver's Public Television station, KBPI Channel 12, at 9pm mountain time.

Among Hart's comments:

"We could have avoided this bloodshed" through muscular diplomacy but for "hard-line elements in the administration who were hell-bent on war from day one."

President Bush continually changed the justification for invading Iraq and exaggerated Saddam Hussein's ties to al-Qaeda terrorists that were "never true."

There are 46 or 47 other nations with dictatorships who mistreat their people. "Do we overthrow them all? I don't think so."

North Korea's corrupt leadership has defied specific arms agreements with the United States far more directly than Iraq ever did...and poses a serious threat because of its nuclear ambitions.

He is considering challenging for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. ,,,he is "testing the waters" and has now launched a website to collect his comments and offer potential volunteers a place to sign up.

War supporters who want to dismiss the large American protest movement are "missing a point" about the national character. "We're a peaceful people. Most Americans don't see the U.S. as the cop of the world."

Insistent media questions about the Rice fiasco are slowly fading and that more people are asking and writing about his studies of terrorism and other issues.

Multiple terror attacks on U.S. soil remain likely and that a new president's focus should be on solving the intractable Middle East problems to secure Americans in the future. After addressing major international conflicts, the president should then turn inward to promote universal health coverage, "which we need," ... and energy independence.

Hart will be speaking in Albuquerque on Monday, April 21, New York City on Wednesday, April 23 and in Portland, Oregon on Thursday, April 24. Details below and at GaryHartNews.com