state senator or mayor or still councillor to do than to object to what the president of the united states plans to. this is what the 41-year-old state senator said in his fifth year on the job, a job that had nothing to do with war making. >> i don't oppose war in all circumstances, and when i look out over this crowd today, i know there is no shortage of patriots or patriotism. what i do oppose is a dumb war. >> needless to say, president bush didn't hear that speech that day. none of us who were not at federal plaza heard that speech. five months later, the president made this announcement. >> my fellow citizens, at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave