My mathematics is a bit off but the 600+ Kuwaitis who were kidnapped or otherwise unaccounted for after Saddam's troops retreated might have something to say about this impending conflict: interesting that no Mudcatter has bothered to mention that an ongoing UN Resolution requires full accounting of these people.

If an equivalent number of Americans had been kidnapped (600,000), we wouldn't have waited 12 years to do something about it. Saddam's regime never made any effort to deal with this issue over the years: too bad that his people have to suffer, but that is the price to pay for being the aggressor.

Nobody wants war, since in Ben Franklin's words "there was never such a thing as a good war or a bad peace ..." Saddam knows what he has to do to avert it ... he has no legitimacy and must go, even if we have to go in and get him out. To do otherwise is a grave abdication to a tyrant.

Cheers,

Brian