"I'm assuming it is because he has good intelligence"...

That is quite an assumption, whichever meaning of intelligence is applicable.

I'm sure that if Iraq was in a position to row a nuclear device up the river to New York, that is precisely what Saddam would be trying to do right now - the intention being to get on the phone to the White House and the New York Times to say that the first move the US makes to attack, it'd be exploded. Good old fashioned MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) theory, as developed in the Pentagon.

In fact I suspect most governments threatened with imminent attack would be likely to try that. And given the probable truth of what Doug said there - "I would not be at all surprised to find, after Iraq has been successfully invaded, that Iran and North Korea might be the next targets" - the likelihood is quite great that somewhere in the lengthening list of targets there probably will be someone who actually is in a position to make a serious attempt to do it.

The impression I get - and which I think is shared by most people outside the USA - is that there are people in control who see September 11 as an opportunity to get away with doing all the things they've been wanting to do all along. They've got that hammer crying out to be used...

Just imagine if those skyscrapers had been in Moscow, and it had happened a few years ago, and the Soviet Union was gearing itself up to launch a war against some country which had nothing to do with the atrocity, but had a lot of natural resources, with the intention of installing a regime that would fall in line with the wishes of the USSR. Would that have been seen as a war against terror to be supported by every lover of peace and freedom on the planet? (As I said, there is nothing left-wing or right-wing about this stuff.)