Best to avoid personal attacks, even when they are counter attacks. They just get in the way of an argument - and they give the person you are arguing with an easy way of avoiding the issue.

"I think Blix is just an empire builder." Well I imagine that's the kind of thing people will say now he's failed to deliver what was needed. In fact I known it's very mild compared to some of the things that have already been said.

I don't think it sounds very likely though. Hans Blix is 74, and I'm sure he'd much sooner be back home in Sweden than involved in all this malarkey, and would like to get the job done as soon as he honestly can. He'd have to be crazy not to, and he didn't look the least bit crazy to me.

But I'd really have thought Doug would be pleased at indications that all the pressure is starting to pay off, and that it could be possible to ensure that Saddam doesn't have any "weapons of mass destruction" without having to have a war. Isn't that what you were predicting would happen all along Doug? And that's not me being sarcastic, I mean it.