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Saddam Huessein will be gone from power in Iraq by Decemeber 1.

Hope so, but I seriously doubt it.

Netanyahu hearing just ended with Christopher Shays (R)announcing that phone calls to his office are running 40 to 1 AGAINST a preemptive strike.

"Hope so, but I seriously doubt it."

I don't doubt he'll be gone by then. Bush isn't sitting around and twiddling his thumbs. The wheels have already been put into motion. As he's said many times before, there will be operations that no one will ever know about. The weather is going to be changing in the later part of this year. I don't think the President really gives a hoot about Ramadan...he showed that last year. I think he's fired the warning shot to the UN, the next shot will be fired to the Congress. If those two affinities decide to sit on their thumbs and not get on board, he'll just do what he has to do.

The only reason we haven't attacked Iraq to this point was a low inventory of our smart ordinance and the toll the 100 degree-plus Summer heat would exact on U.S. personnel with their special anti-agent protective gear.

Our arsenals are refortified, we've got 100,000 soldiers in the area, our bases in Qatar are ready, the weather is cooling and I am convinced that if given the order today, we we'd have our Special Ops guys in Baghdad by October 15, our Marines by November 15, and our Army footsoldiers and infrastructure there by December 1.

The Iraqi people have no stomach for this. There was a special on the AH-64 attack copter, and they had cockpit video of Iraqi soldiers in Desert Storm walking up to their choppers surrendering. The CWO pilots are going "Are they surrendering? What the hell do we do with these guys!" LOL

The Iraqis remember the imminent and unannounced death that rained down on them, silent and unannounced, from unseen enemies in the sky during the dark of night. That's TERROR!

Saddam won't stay and fight. He'll bolt, he's not a martyr. He'll live well somewhere in Indonesia, he's a billionaire many times over. If he had the capability to launch a chemical or biological attack on Israel he would have done it by now. We control 60% of his country already. He doesn't have the rugged landscape or topography of Iran and Afghanistan. He's a bunker guy, and bunkers are easily found. His scientific work involves too many people, too many foreigners, to be clandestine to native Iraqis. Once Saddam is gone, we'll find every lab and every storehouse just through locals who are no longer terrified to talk and who have kept their eyes open.