>SNIP
>>The anxiety to war because someone chooses to operate in a different way than is satisfactory to President Bush is hard for me to understand.
>>As far as I can see, 1441 IS WORKING. Just not the way President Bush feels it must.
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>Satisfactory to President Bush? What about in accordance with UN Resolution 1441? He didn't write that alone and vote on it alone. I question the validity of the UN for other reasons anyway. How valid is a UN that plans a disarmament accord in MAY with Iraq and Iran cochairing? How about Libya chairing the Human Rights Commission right now. The world is already in trouble. Even so, Saddam still has had 12 years to disarm. Destroying a few missiles (while he continues to order more and move everything else around) is NOT disarming. That is like giving up a single gun at your front door while you sneek in cases of guns in the backdoor. Where is the disarmament? I see none. I see only delay tactics that have worked for years. Regardless President Bush must do what he feels is the right thing for American security. We may not agree with him, but it is his responsibility. Whether the UN chooses to help with that or not is now MOOT it appears.

WAR is not a child's "time out" or simple disciplinary action to an unruly child.
I am convinced that President Bush BELIEVES that it his his DUTY to do this. That doesn't make it any more right. Where is his sense of duty to the world at large, to the civilians who will be killed and to exercising the restraint more becoming the world's ONLY super power?????

Saddam will have earned war when he attacks some country directly or by proxy through terrorism. That's the way the world works. Especially the free and democratic world.