Grandpa2: Jimmy Carter and North Korea? Are you talking about 1994 where he brokered an agreement to moth ball a North korean nuclear facility suspected of making weapons? Or are you talking about the past week or so where he was in Tokyo for humanitarian reasons that had nothing to do with North korea? Jimmy Carter is about the best we have right now on the foreign relations front. he is well respected throughout the world but this president shuns his use because of his party affiliation and, in my opinion, because he is a broker of peace not war. I thought Colin Powell was going to be the next great FR man but his wings were clipped and all credibility lost while towing the Bush isolationist policies. On religion....I don't recall seeing any anti-god anti-religion posts. I do recall posts that were anti-forced religion, seperation of church and state, which I completely agree with. Your religious beliefs are your own and should stay that way.
Dogfish: You have no patience for people who "assume" yet you are basing an awful lot and the lives of many americans on assumptions. Why was Saddam an imminent threat? Bush didn't tell the whole truth? So far it appears he didn't tell any truth. Did he believe he was telling us the truth? Evidence from the pentagon and the CIA show that it is very unlikley he could have not known his statements and "evidence" were false. So, either he is an extremely inept president, which is believable, or a liar. Of course there will always be a percentage of the population that believes there is evidence but it's top secret just like people who deny the holocaust but the percentage is rapidly shrinking.
Either way, we are now in a quagmire not unlike Russia's Afghanistan. This could very well be the first big step towards the fall of the last superpower.