Oh, please. You are so naive. For almost a year I've been reading posters on this forum confidently telling us how we are "just about" to launch an assault on Baghdad. No UN resolutions, no jaw-jaw, no wrangling over inspectors and conditions -- just wham, bam, thank you Saddam. Now, after kicking back the whole summer, Bush gives the UN "one last chance" to fix things and this is supposed to be "tough talk." You must have a memory that goes back all of 24 hours.
Saddam is much better at this game than we are, I'm afraid. And why not? His life depends on it.
Nobody here has EVER predicted an assault on Iraq back in December. Are you joshing?
I'm not at all naive.
I'm paying attention. I'm reading, and I'm listening. You, obviously are not.
I don't know what posters you are referring to who were sure that we were "just about" to launch an assault on Baghdad a year ago, but I would guess they, in spite of their different opinion, were blowhards just like you.