[ThePythonicCow]

There's not going to be an invasion of Iraq...and there will be new terrorist attacks.

My guess is that there will be more terrorist attacks, perhaps quite more deadly than 9/11, perhaps not. And that these will lead to an invasion of Iraq. The forces of liberal appeasement, at home and abroad, at the head of our State Department and within the ranks of our own military (Clinton had 8 years to pacify them) may have blunted our ability and resolve to strike without further intense provocation.

I trust Bush, deeply. But the President is not all powerful. Thank God for that. The depth of liberal (socialist, communist, ...) insanity in our world today is astounding.

We're trying to tame a pair of enebriated bull elephants: liberalism and terrorism. Bush is a good elephant driver and an honest man. He's right to tell us that this effort will take us many years, perhaps longer than his two terms. At times we see the elephants rampaging through the same places as before, still causing damage, with George Bush sitting right on top. I pray and trust that he will continue to hold on, and use what powers he has to tame these elephants.

But I don't trust that he has it within his powers to succeed at an invasion of Iraq before many more innocents have died. Nor will we make much more progress reining in the liberal expansion of the federal government until we get a Republican majority in the House and Senate.

[kjam22]

I don't think this is about liberal appeasment. I think this is about not repeating the past. Bush Sr invaded Iraq to early in his term. At the end of the gulf war he had huge approval ratings. Two years later he was a one termer. We'll invade Iraq... but not right now. In about another a year or a year and a half.