[Alia]

The clear implication of the antichoice faction--if I may so dub them--is that this decision should have been left up to Saddam Hussein. As so often before . . .

OOh! Brilliantly and scathingly put!

[dts32041]

I do in fact know the answer to this question. So deep and bitter is the split within official Washington, most especially between the Defense Department and the CIA, that any claim made by the former has been undermined by leaks from the latter. (The latter being those who maintained, with a combination of dogmatism and cowardice not seen since Lincoln had to fire General McClellan, that Saddam Hussein was both a "secular" actor and--this is the really rich bit--a rational and calculating one.)

This strikes as the Powell WC wing of the pentagon and state against the Rummy and rice bolton wing.

Crying same that the people charged with the defense and putting forth the interests of the United States are at each others throats.

Ah for the days of FDR when he is attacked goes after the secondary target, Will this country ever learn that if we don't unit the McClellans and Stenson's come to the top As Oppose to the Grants and the other side of the Roosevelt family.