The only two countries that could even mount an attack and possibly only loose 90% of it people within' a couple of hours are Russia and China. The rest would loose 99.99% of their people within two hours! I can't believe that the Bush folks continue to make this case that countries with very weak armies would even give a second thought to attacking the US...

What we are seeing is that with the Bush foriegn policy of "Stomp Heavily and Whack Anyone You Want" that folks are trying to figure out ways to deter being invaded... If the tables werte turned the US would be doing the very same thing...

What is needed here are some assurances from the US that it doesn't plan on whacking people. That would be a good start toward a saner planet but, no, what we have are preconditions after preconditions on the US's part. That's not diplomacy. That's ultimatum. Bad policy for a 21st century world...

And to think that Bush *had* an opportunity after 9/11 to change the way people go about solving conflict but he blew it big time...

Bobert