[jraven]

PREDICTION: They will allow inspectors in -- but to stall. We'll get bogged down in delays. War may ultimate take place...but they will adroitly exploit whatever leeway there is for them to exploit, stalling, delaying, finding excuses every step of the way.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Saddam will try to stall until after Nov elections in the US... its really his only and last chance

[VaBthang4]

Inspectors are only a small part of what GW demanded...

Dont get caught up in the "inspectors hype" GW lined up plenty of other things Iraq had to do.

GW isnt playing politics on this one....he has said we'll go without the Wolrd and he means it.

Baghdad can try a UN two step but it aint gonna make a hill of beans to the President.[ Or me.]

[dighton]

Cheat and retreat.

[mhking]

Saddam's stalling...

He's thinking he cal call Bush's bluff.

Catch is, Bush ain't bluffing...

[Odyssey-x]

Naah. Saddam will say he already has a nuclear bomb, and no you can't see it. Oh you don't like that I have a nuke, what are you going to do about it?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Iraqi ambassador will declare that their regime has no weapons of mass destruction and will prove it by blocking any attempt by the UN to send inspectors into Iraq.

[dead]

You can come in over here.
But I want to go in there.
OK. Next week.
I want to go in there now.
OK. You can go in here now. And in there next week.
No. I don't want to go in here. I want to go in there.
Sure thing. Next week.
No. Now.
Now, you can go in here...

[Grampa Dave]

Saddam will say that he will only allow his $500,000 W$ore Ritter to come in and inspect him.

This was predictable. It won't buy him any more time.

[mhking]

Or if he's really Machiavellian, he's going to try to gain the upper hand by being preemptive himself...

[RobRoy]

I do not understand what they do announce only I definitely likes these babelfish translation.

[Dog Gone]

We're at least all in agreement that it's a stalling tactic. There's some question as to whether it will work.

Bush has already said that he is committed to regime change. Not "regime change if inspectors aren't allowed in."

He means it. This won't slow down our preparations in the slightest. If anything, it will permit us to place spies in Baghdad.

Inspectors would be to our advantage.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Iraq would be on the point of making a "significant advertisement" with UNO in the next hours,

Saddam will allow tommy daschle and John Kerry to inspect whatever they want to for a period of 83 minutes. They will then be required declare him "weapons free".

[The Great Satan]

Like I said, this is a game of Chicken, the outcome still unknown.

[BulletBrasDotNet]

The international community multiplied these last days...

Huh? Must have been a Viagra outbreak nine months ago.(/sarcasm) Who writes this stuff? Their grammar is horrible.

[MassExodus]

Say we DO go in and determine that there are no WOMM ( Weapons of Mass MURDER ),

so what ?

The regime is STILL going to help finance and train Al Quaida militants to fight exactly the kind of devastating campaign that they have thus far.

No, Saddam needs to die, just for starters.

[Petronski]

Iraq to make a "significant announcement" to UN on weapons inspectors within a few hours

"Scott Ritter is a tool. That is all."

[Robert_Paulson2]

My suspicion is that Iraq probably will announce a yom kippur 'preemptive' strike against Israel... or some other act of terror.

Sadaam is going to SAY I will allow it but with provisions.
Bush and SOME allies will say NO...

UN will decide to deliberate... AGAIN.
The usa will act, unilaterally if necessary and without congressional approval

IF we do poorly, daschle will say "I told you so..."
If we do well, daschle will say, "we already gave the president authorization to do whatever was necessary..." and take credit for that authorization.

[Lucas1]

Another BS Bluff...Bush is crazy if he things the inspection route is going to work. Let us hope he knows better than that.

[OldFriend]

Saddam is going to invite Peter Arnet back to show him the latest baby milk factory!