Gee Amos, you think I would stay out in the freezing rain while this is going on?

Not likely. Actually fiddler is closer to truth than we can see at the moment. It's not that Saddam is bad, nor is it that there is a lot of bad stuff in the world, rather - far more sobering to me at least - our esteemed leaders are getting ready to bomb an entire country to fix the prolem.

It's similar to demolishing a house to rid it of a few pesky rats.

Mr Blair, Labor, and Mr Bush, Republican, seem, at first sight, strange bedfellows for such a crazy enterprise, but on closer inspection not a mystery at all. Both educated at Public school talk like two little Preppy kids - Mr Bryant may have some data on this - and are truely Tintin gone bananas. But then what can we expect? Give a kid a toy, and sooner or later, your head becomes target practice for some little brute who takes offence.

Seriously, G W a Born Again Christian, is almost Biblical in his pronouncements about Saddam. So we hear things like 'Saddam is a tortured...is lying....is evil' So we must bomb the entire continent of Africa.

You see, it is not that we don't know there is a problem, rather it is the almost infantile response that is sooooo frightening.

I hear on Radio, for I am always listening to it these days - thankyou Mr Ridge - where I am informed our President is an Evangelical, and these people so it appears do not flinch at a good war. It seems compared to Anglicans - Episcopeleans in the US - the Evangelicals are... more physical, they like getting dirty, so war to them is a release and they preach J himself would have no problem with leveling Bagdad with one big one.

Sooo where does that take us?

Suppose Kim Bong ill were to nuke L A Ca, what would G W do?

That bad.

Our concerns are real, our fears are justified and while, by this time, in the 1960's there would certainly be a general strike in the US and Blighty, student protests in every campus in the entire world...we certainly would not be throwing rocks at folks who merely start debates.

What is truely frightening here is the response of the West to what was until 9-11 a waiting game for Saddam's demise, probably by one of his own kind.

Have we gone too far? Could Islam simply unite and attack the western Army, which btw are only following orders, ..... It is not just Iraq and G W SHOULD be the first one to see that.