Reply #2: Here's what I just wrote to Chris Mathews

[ShrewdLiberal]

"To Chris Mathews, just a little reminder to you, sir.

When you said on HARDBALL that in December of 2001 that someone must have "got to" Bush and took his focus off Al Quaeda and on to Iraq, need I remind you that in Paul O'Neal's book he sated that from day one G.W. Bush was focused on invading Iraq. O'Neil should know because he was sitting across the table from Bush, and therefore is a direct witness.

Anyway, you do that time and again--say things that are obviously false. The America people know it's false because of testimonial knowledge. Paul O'Neil is one of many "insiders" who've revealed that Iraq has always been G.W.'s plan, along with his cohort Cheney.

I just thought you needed to be reminded of fact-based reality. For some reason you insist on deluding yourself about the true motives of Bush and Cheney. Lest we forget that Cheney tried to get Clinton to invade Iraq in the late 1990s, so your false notions just don't fly with us realists out here.

A concerned Western New Yorker"