If I could believe that this war against Iraq would be conducted as honestly and fairly as any war can, with no intentional loss of innocent life and as little all-round blood loss as possible, I just might support it.

But I can't. Not with Bush as President. The man has all the intelligence and grasp of the English language of a swatted fly. He was never properly voted in in the first place, and he knows it; the way I see it, if he will deceive and manipulate the public for his own personal gain and that of his friends and family once, he will do it again.

Maybe a war against Iraq is a necessary evil, and maybe it isn't - but, by God! There is now way I will ever believe that George W Bush is the right man to conduct it.