Gary Hart writes about Bush and the War in Iraq in light of the uranium fiasco and the lack of progress in the terror war:

Meanwhile, what happened to the vaunted “war on terrorism”? No Osama bin Laden, “dead or alive”. Almost two years after 9.11 our States and cities are not prepared for the next attack. The suddenly silent John Ashcroft is managing to make more and more Americans nervous. The CIA has, once again, been made the fall guy for an administration’s excesses. George Tenet accepts responsibility for not taking key words out of a presidential speech? That’s not the question. The question is: Who put those words in?

...The American people have given the Bush administration great leeway to combat terrorism. So far they have given the President the benefit of the doubt. But our tolerance is being strained and our credulity sorely tested. I sense we're reaching the "tipping point" where it all starts going south.

More is at stake than George Bush's future or partisan advantage. The honor and reputation of the United States is now at stake. We cannot claim to be "the world's leading democracy" and commit the power of the United States to a war that, so far, has been justified on false grounds. The wheels of justice grind exceeding fine. And judgment day is coming.