How one-sided can we get? President Bush has gone from daily speeches about evil terrorists that didn't realize what a vengeful giant they were awakening to daily television appearances attacking Iraq. We've never had a president who spent so much time on the nation's airwaves to sell us something.

And he's backed by daily shows from the Rumsfeld Pentagon and Ari Fleisher's news conferences with so-called investigative reporters fearful of losing their privileges.

It's one of the biggest media events in history, even replacing child abuse, kidnappings, molestations, pedophilia, the year-of-the-shark, and California car chases that all seem to have faded into the background or somehow stopped happening.

C'mon folks, after fifty years of being glued to the boob-tube you must have developed some advertising awareness. Aren't you wary of so many claiming to be first and number one with the braggadocio of used car dealers? You should be able to recognize a concerted effort to sell you a bill of goods when you see it.

We've got everything but raffles and give-away coupons involved in this current debate about Saddam Hussein and the Axis-of-Evil, but your sons and daughters will soon win a trip to the Middle East.

Have we forgotten the need to stop communism from spreading across the universe, things like "the big red menace from Nicaragua," the sadistic Japanese that were tying our boys between two bent palm trees to send their body parts flying to the four winds, the disaster of China taking over Hong Kong or the Panama Canal? How about the godless Russians who put up that wall and had total destruction missiles pointed at us in a Mexican standoff that lasted forty years. And doesn't everybody have nuclear weapons nowadays or did some of them lose Ollie North's phone number?

What a dilemma this Iraqi crisis must be for the United Nations. On the one hand, the UN is positioned to be the peacekeeper and arbitrator of world conflict and dispute. And on the other hand, it's the whipping boy of the United States and a definite part of the New World Order. It has trouble even making the U.S. pay its dues when operating on land donated by the Rockefellers and based in a skyscraper terrorist target in New York City. Obviously, the terrorists thought that this "symbol" was secondary to international banking and the Pentagon in the new world pecking order.

But what about our unbiased, investigative, freedom loving news media? Surely, they must have some inclination to go to the source when there's a question of whether or not Saddam Hussein has complied with the U.N.'s mandates. That beehive of international law and order must have tons of files, secretaries, office managers, committees, UNSCOM, and other Administratium full of information and opinion about whether Iraq has or has not complied with sanctions and so forth.

About the only thing I've heard comes from Scott Ritter, one of the UN inspectors that was in Iraq from the beginning. He says: "UNSCOM inspectors were the best forensic investigators in the world. We were pretty good at doing our job. By 1996 we were able to ascertain that 90 to 95 percent of Iraq’s capabilities were destroyed. When Richard Butler came on board in 1997, we had already fundamentally disarmed Iraq."

And then he went on to say something that was a complete surprise to me: "Saddam Hussein didn't kick out the U.N. inspectors. They were ordered out by the U.S. government, which then used information they provided to bomb 100 locations that had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction. So the weapons inspectors were used by the United States. This is the reality: When Madeleine Albright called up Richard Butler and said 'jump!' Richard Butler always said, 'how high?' It was obvious from day one." (complete text)

President Bush is pressuring the UN to pass a resolution in which he says: "Congress in 1998 concluded that Iraq was then in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations and thereby threatened the vital interests of the United States."

Where's Paul Harvey when we need him?