[EternalHope]

Bush's strategy is to totally isolate Saddam Hussein, both in the eyes of the world community and from his own people and military. This is an eminently attainable goal, given the hand Bush holds, and we are already seeing rapidly accelerating progress in that direction.

If we can pull this off, fantastic. We are certainly making progress.

But I do not think this will be sufficient to dislodge Saddam.

We are in a position that REQUIRES us to act if something does not change. President Bush has thrown down the gauntlet, and cannot back down without losing all credibility forever.

I agree, it seems highly unlikely our President would risk losing New York or DC unless the alternative was even worse. We may be there.

[Stevieboy]

It'll be interesting to hear what he (Saddam) has to say at the UN shortly... in a couple of hours from now.

[The Great Satan]

I agree, it seems highly unlikely our President would risk losing New York or DC unless the alternative was even worse

Well, of course that depends on what the risk level is, and whether the alternative is really worse, and what our confidence level is about that. We were here, forty years ago, with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Only trouble is, Russia hadn't already pulled off a 9-11, its ICBM placement could be verified by our satellites, and Nikita Kruschev wasn't Saddam Hussein.