If only we could believe what 'our' leaders tell or promise us.

Political leaders have promised full pay to all after the crisis is settled.

Leaders on both sides of the fighting have promised to press the struggle.

The Iraqi leaders have promised to change it after next month's elections.

Congressional leaders have promised to hold hearings on the issue.

Republican leaders have since promised to attach her amendment to another bill this fall.

A day later, though, Israeli forces pull back to the security zone, as their political leaders promised they would.

Republican leaders have promised to vote on the entire 10-point manifesto in the first 100 days of the new Congress.

The session was actually supposed to end today, and all week long legislative leaders had promised their members that they would close on time.

But the two leaders promised to continue the reconciliation effort they began after their countries came to the brink of war last year.