Are we missing an important point of J. David McSwane's four-word editorial? Why would the Collegian's editorial board resort to profanity when it comes to the president? Answers are far too numerous to discuss in a Soapbox, so let me just limit it to the war in Iraq.

Bush had already planned on invading Iraq in 1999, according to Mickey Herskowitz a longtime Bush family friend: "One of the things he said to me, is, 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.' And he said, 'My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it... He said, 'If I have a chance to invade Iraq, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency.'" (Houston Chronicle, Page 10 Nov. 1, 2004)

"From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime. Day one, these things were laid and sealed."

"It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,'" O'Neill said.

We also know from O'Neill that in the opening days of the Bush presidency, the battle plans already had been drawn and the oil fields already divvied up ("60 Minutes" "Bush Sought Way to Invade Iraq?" Jan 11, 2004).

Richard Clarke, the counter-terrorism czar under four presidents, said to us after 9/11 "The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.' Now, he never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said Iraq did this.

"I said, 'Mr. President. We've done this before. We have been looking at this. We looked at it with an open mind. There's no connection.'

"He came back at me and said, "Iraq! Saddam! Find out if there's a connection.' And in a very intimidating way. I mean that we should come back with that answer. (60 Minutes "Clarke's take on Terror" Mar 21, 2004)."

Bush told the American people, "We've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaida members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases," We later learn our intelligence agencies knew that information obtained during torture was false, but the White House still used it to sell us the war nine months later (Newsweek "Al Libi's Tall Tales Nov 10, 2005).

We know from the head of British intelligence, Sir Richard Dearlove, that Bush wanted to remove Saddam, but the intelligence and facts were being fixed (London Times Front page, "The Secret Downing Street Memos" May 1st, 2005).

Bottom line ... Bush lied us into war. He intended war all along to control the Iraqi oil. Bush was just waiting for an excuse and 9/11 was his lucky day. With Congress's inaction on impeachment, Bush gets off easy with a simple curse word considering his damage to our country's honor.

Scott Skogerboe lives in Fort Collins