>News on at the moment says that Uday has now officially rejected the US demands (to leave the country)...
Who is Uday? One of Saddam's sons, perhaps?
>... so it all looks a certainty. Let's hope for a short one.
The situation looks extremely troubling, given that - unlike the previous Gulf War, for instance - the support towards the position of the U.S. is quite divided.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)