What Spaw said, with this addition: Saddam could even add his right nut to the list, and it would make no difference...the USA would attack anyway.

Needless to say, Saddam is not willing to give up his family jewels at this point.

If Saddam dies in the defence of Iraq, America will have given the Muslim World an unkillable martyr who will haunt the USA for at least a generation and inspire legions of suicide attackers and terrorists.

Bin Laden is no doubt delighted, as he could hardly have wished for anything more perfect than this, from the point of view of Al Queda. He hates Saddam, he hates the Ba'ath Party (for their anti-religious stand), and he has longed for the fall of Saddam from power, as he has longed to create a holy war between the USA and the entire Muslim world.

Now Bush is giving Al Queda exactly what they want, on a platter.

I wonder if Karl Rove (Bush's chief strategist behind the scenes) realizes that? I wonder if he cares? Probably not. He's never shown before that he cared about people's lives. Never once.

- LH