Guest: Well, that sounds like the "least-worst" option & see? - we can agree, after all. Let's tell our representatives to pay attention to this real, immediate crisis. (Saddam is probably going to string out the inspections business for months, anyway. War there, while still a likely & horrific prospect, is not inevitable.) // Re Zimbabwe elections: the initial one was like 30+ years ago, wasn't it?? *Perhaps* the people really wanted Mugabe then. Lord Acton's "Power corrupts" is true everywhere, sadly. What was needed, I suppose, was a Mandela. But there aren't enough Mandelas to go around, alas.

Bill (the sound) - how about we make Tonybear an honorary US Senator from Texas and put him up in a nice puppydog-house out on the north forty at Bush's ranch? Good? :)