On a more serious note, it is beginning to look like at least the Bush-Blair axis will try to use the United Nations as their vehicle for dealing with Saddam. Iraq's Minister of Trade is asserting all they want to do is go back to business as it was before the Kuwait invasion -- a sensible position, which Saddam should echo loudly and act on. Otherwise, he's gonna start spewing off at the mouth about mothers of battles and folks are gonna get awful tahred of him, either within Iraq or without.

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