Mark, I would be agreeing with you right now if it weren't for something I heard Benjamin Netanyahu say about a year ago. He was telling the American people, on American TV, that we should attack Saddam and remove him from power. When the interviewer protested that we shouldn't wage a first strike war, Mr. Netanyahu said something along the lines of this: "Just do it! You don't need anyone's permission, you just do it!

The government of Israel is one of the staunchest supporters of a US attack against Iraq.

I have no idea what the people who live in Israel think about what their government is advocating, but I would love to hear that they are doing their best to convince their government that it is wrong in case.