You say, " I'm like a dog with a bone on this one. :)"

Since they gave me an IV diuretic during my hospital stay last week and have quadrupled my oral diuretic dosage, I have managed to reduce the swelling in my feet, legs and other parts of my body. I am finally able to begin to see the effects of not being able to keep food down for several months. With all that weight loss, I intend to stay well outside your "gnawing field." I am beginning to look like "a bone" and now fear for my safety.

I have said here previously that reasonable people can make reasonable assumptions and they can choose to disagree with other reasonable people on any number of subjects and do so in a reasonable manner. That seems to be the case here.

I am fully prepared to learn that Scott Petersen did murder his wife and unborn child, but I am also prepared to learn that he is NOT involved. It would seem to me to be a most unwise action to dispose of a body and then use a location near to the area where the body is subsequently recovered as the scene of an alibi.

It would also seem to me, at least, that having the body (as yet not certain) discovered within only a few miles from the scene of a known alibi for the "suspect" smacks heavily of a frame. That bothers me. It would not be the first time that a killer has arranged things to point suspicion at someone other than himself. Scott Petersen may indeed be that terminally stupid or incredibly arrogant, but I have no way of knowing that... yet. At least, not according to the limited evidence we have at our disposal.

I am more than willing to discover that you are correct in your assumptions. That's not my point at all. My point is that I prefer, out of a sense of fairness, to suspend judgement until given cause to decide otherwise. I do support your right to believe as you do and state those beliefs here. That's one of the major reasons this forum came into being in the first place. Another reason is also the ability of others who believe differently than you to state their case as well.

As the Iraqi citizens are quickly learning, REAL freedom includes the right to voice opposition to the efforts of our troops to rid their country of chaos and anarchy and do away with the last vestiges of Saddam Hussein's despotic tyrany. They would never had dared stage such protests under Hussein's iron-fisted rule. Under his regime, many would not have survived stating such opposition.

I like what George W. Bush said on the south lawn of the White House on Sunday. "It's a beautiful day to be free!" It is indeed, Mr. President. Every day with freedom is beautiful. Thank you, sir. Thank you soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and all members of the coalition forces for helping us show the world that. I just want even Scott Petersen to have that same privilege of those freedoms until it is factually proved that he does not deserve it any longer. I am unwilling to steal that freedom from him - or anyone - simply because of an emotional "hunch" however correct it may turn out to be at some future date.