The evidence linking Saddam to 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks is overwhelming, to say the least. Granted, this evidence is largely circumstantial. But circumstantial evidence is often all that is required to convict a crimminal in a U.S. court of law. If we chose to sit around with our thumbs up our asses (as you suggest) and watch Hussein distribute his WMD throughout the world, we'd be on the receiving end of it soon enough. You dudes are going to look like utter fools in a few weeks after our foray into Iraq uncovers the "iron-clad proof" that you've been desperately whining for. ....And I'll be saving this post to stick back in your faces when that time comes.