[mamelukesabre]

What happened to the muslim terrorist activities going on in the horn-of-africa region? You know, somalia, ethiopia, etc. I thought we were going in there to mop up the bin-laudin-type groups operating there. It seems to me that this region would have priority over saddam insane. Iraq is a separate issue. Surely there are many good christian ethiopians that could be recruited to help us in this region.

[crystalk]

No, that region lacks oil and has little education and economic potential. Saddam is a hundred times the risk to the USA, and a THOUSAND times the risk in the next 2-3 yrs, that the Horn of Africa could ever be...

[browardchad]

Good try, but Iraq is not a separate issue. Hussein is at this moment capable of making the Israel/Palestinian violence look like intramural basketball games, and he's hoping for just a little more time until he can deliver them long-distance. True, he doesn't give a hoot about Islam, but he sure would like to settle the score against the U.S., in a more spectacular way than he's tried in the past.