I'm sure we all feel safe and secure under the guidance of the Bush administration. Just recently, our nation was put on high alert for a terrorist attack. Despite our fears, we felt safe knowing we could go to the government and prepare ourselves for a WMD attack. Our government's solution: duct tape, bottled water, plastic sheets and flashlights. I feel safer already.

But not to worry. After all, what's wrong with invading Iraq when a large part of American, European and Middle Eastern citizens are against it? We all know about the protests that have been occurring in the U.S., but what most of us don't know is that the largest protest in British history just occurred in the U.K. (our staunchest ally). One million protesters marched in London to protest the war.

Then there's Turkey. You know, the country that wants six billion dollars in exchange for letting our troops stage the attack from their soil. My first impulse as an American was to curse them for their greed, but then I heard that 95 percent of their citizens oppose going to war. I know that may have been hard to follow so I'll summarize it: Turkey is asking for six billion dollars to do something that 95% of their citizens are against. What's wrong with this picture?

Worst of all is the fact that President Bush is prepared to invade Iraq even though most members of the U.N. are against it. We're supposed to be the leader of the free world, and yet when most of the free world begs us not to invade a country, we ignore and insult them. Yet Bush says that this war will spread democracy. Sounds like democracy to me.

But when all else fails, and it has, we can still justify the war because Iraq has WMDs. Or can we? U.N. weapons inspectors have been diligently searching the length and breadth of Iraq looking for WMDs, using America's infallible intelligence information. The only problem is that the inspectors haven't been able to find a thing. Bush takes half of his State of the Union address and Colin Powell takes all of a U.N. meeting to assure us and the world that Iraq has an enormous arsenal of WMDs. Yet when U.N. weapons inspectors go to look for them (using our intelligence) they can't find them. But this shouldn't surprise us. Not too long ago Hans Blix, head of the U.N. weapons inspectors, gave Iraq a grade of a 'B' on its cooperation level and declared that his team couldn't find any WMDs. The bottom line is that President Bush, despite our supposedly infallible intelligence, hasn't been able to prove that there are any WMDs in Iraq. Maybe he expects the world to take us at face value.

Let's recap, shall we? Not only has Bush not kept the American people feeling safe (all duct tape and plastic sheets aside), he has shown that he is willing to ignore the will of most of the free world, and invade based on WMDs that only U.S. intelligence seems to be able to find. I know that this article is extremely critical, sarcastic and at times even cruel. But I wrote this article so that you all can start asking yourselves a question that most of the world and much of America has been asking from the beginning. Is our administration dragging this country to war because it needs to or because it wants to?