The recent revelations that Iraq was months away from completing an atomic bomb before the Gulf War started, should give pause to those who decry even that war. If Saddam had simply waited until he had completed the bomb, before taking Kuwait, he would have had the coalition troops close enough, that even the most primative delivery system whould have worked; and we would have had a vastly different situation in the Gulf. If that was not enough proof that the elder Bush was not 100% correct to go in last time while the foolish twits in the Democrat party wanted to "wait for sanctions to work", then there is no proof that will quiet their pandering babble about when it is "just" to fight a war.

I don't know of anyone who "wants" a war and those who frame the debate in that fashion are dishonest to the core. There is a legimate debate under which circumstances should we engage in combat, and to what extent the Nation's interests are involved in any impending conflict. But to have people who are against any form of "war" debate this issue is counter-productive, since they are not susceptible to any form of logic in the discussion.

While I can imagine a flock of hooting loonies taking flight over that statement, I need only point out that that is why they do not allow those people who are totally against the death penalty to sit on capital cases. But lack of susceptability to logical arguements has never been the basis for withholding opinions, and is a constitutionally protected privledge.

While the President has vast powers not available to leaders of other nations, he does not operate in a vacumn. The fact that even significant portions of the loyal opposition (as well as other nations) are "leaning forward", together with statements and material released by the Iraqis themselves, indicates to me that the situation is reaching a cusp that is much more intense than the simpleminded statements that the President is somehow trying to gain vengance for his father. My suspecion is that Iraq does possess an atomic bomb in some rudimentary form, or is very close to completing one. Now that Jummy Carter is getting a Peace Prize instead of wrecking our intelligence asssets overseas, I belive we are probably talking to Iraqis in the know, and we will end up with some form of the Desdimona type attack, a couple of weeks of "If it flys, it dies...", a couple of Predator attacks on some Iraqi slow learners, and this thing will be a wrap.