[MadIvan]

I heard Blair on the radio - he said, and forgive me if it's not word perfect:

"When I heard Saddam say earlier this week that he wouldn't destroy his missiles, I knew by the end of the week he would pledge to the destroy them."

Saddam is playing games. Any fool can see it.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[I Am Not A Mod]

Free Republic Highlights, 2/28/03

[kesg]

The only surprise about Iraq's announcement on the missiles is that it wasn't even more unequivocal than it was. The reality always was that their only current real value to Saddam was as a propaganda tool. Think how the useful idiots will chatter once he shows pictures and video of the missiles being destroyed -- leaving intact, of course, the WMDs and WMD programs that he is still hiding (beginning with the vast and still unaccounted for stores of anthrax and nerve gas). On the other hand, once we go to war, Saddam is a goner, missiles or no missiles.

It appears that even Hans Blix is no longer buying into this Jedi mind trick, but the French, of course, still are.

[Russell Scott]

The worst thing that could happen is the U.N. would go along with us. That would assure that the long term war on terror would be an abject failure. President Bush needs to act quickly wherever the threat of terror exists. If he gets into the U.N. debate swamp everytime he wants to take military action, it only gives the terrorist more time to plan and execute their attacks. As Israel is finally realizing, only rapid and decisive military response to terrorism has stopped the homocide bombers. Before, the more Israel negotiated with Arafat, the more Israelis ended up dead in the street.