[LS]

You guys are right in tune with my thinking.

Great Britain: "We need to go slow. Build a coalition." (behind the scenes: "bombs away")

Bush: "I don't have a plan on my desk." (behind the scenes: "Laura, I used to have a plan for blasting Iraq on my desk. did you see it?")

I think this is exactly the kind of softening up we intended to do, and will continue to do, until one day Saddam realizes he has no air radards in Baghdad, either.

[eureka!]

Re#55 Yep. And I wouldn't be surprised if there was some action going on within, i.e. spooks taking out people and things and the opposition getting busy. W has a plan that is being executed as I type...