[Clinton's a rapist]

'You should think of this thing as a spectrum: with zero Iraqi involvement at one end, and 100 per cent Iraqi direction and control at the other. The scenario we now find most plausible is somewhere in the middle range - significant Iraqi assistance and some involvement.'

What this neglects is that Saddam Hussein, in contrast to al-Qaeda, is completely exposed to US retaliation. Unless one believes that Saddam is suicidal, there really isn't much of a spectrum of possibilities here: either Saddam had only the most tangential, almost accidental involvement in 9/11, insufficient to provoke a US response, or he is fully calling the shots and has his own controls in place to deter our retaliation. Ask yourself which possibility better fits the observed facts to date.

[Travis McGee]

I think Saddam believes he has a MAD shield in 100s of kilos of anthrax ready to go in the USA, and that his "sample pack" gift to Atta in Prague was to serve as a warning.