The Odds of War: Tiptoe Through the Blix (Included the Saddameter)

Slate ^ | Thursday, December 5, 2002 | William Saletan

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Tiptoe Through the Blix
The odds of war.
By William Saletan
Posted Thursday, December 5, 2002, at 1:56 PM PT

Chance of Invasion
Today: 53 percent

Fleischer says U.S. will give inspectors proof that Iraq has weapons forbidden by U.N. Saddam tells Iraqis to cooperate with inspectors to deprive U.S. of excuses for war. Iraqi Foreign Ministry says inspectors' behavior will show whether U.S. controls them. Pentagon prepares to call up reservists. Inspector says "you bet there are differences" between inspectors' and Bush's assessments of inspection progress. War spin: Iraqis will deny having any forbidden weapons, and Bush will prove they lied. Peace spin: Iraqis will disguise their weapons programs as "dual use" technology, and U.N. will let them weasel out.

Yesterday: 55 percent

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I don't normally read Slate, but saw this due to a link at another site. It looks like they update it every few days. Medium funny, in a nervous laugh sort of way.

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Drat. Mistyped "Includes" as "Included" in the title sub-head.

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Bush would be nuts to give "inspectors" (the UN) intelligence information because the UN will leak it to Saddam long before they actually go to the site.

The UN is totally untrustworthy.