"the first U.S.-initiated war since Teddy Roosevelt" (Amos)

How about Vietnam, Grenada, Panama? Or are you speculating that they might actually make it an official war by declaring it this time?

I still don't get how it is that the fact that there is oil under Iraq proves that they have weapons of mass destruction that seriously threaten the rest of the world.

Incidentally, it's probably easier reading that piece about the Gulf manoeuvres where the US actually lost and they had to fake the results on the Guardian website. (The Guardian keeps its archives up on the net permanently and don't charge for access, unlike some media sources, so I suggest a quote and a link is probably better than posting the whole of a lengthy article.)