And I hereby predict that we won't. It's a "red" herring. Gertz is at it again.
Some military planners are advocating a slow, disguised buildup of land forces and aircraft so as not to spark a pre-emptive strike by Saddam Hussein. Planners fully expect Saddam to unleash all the weaponry at his disposal — including chemical and biological warheads — if he feels his regime and his power are at stake. President Bush wants to topple Saddam before his first term ends, but has not approved a war plan.
The timeframe for removing Saddam keeps getting pushed out, as I predicted it would, months ago. Now we're talking another three years. Basically, nothing serious is going to happen to Saddam Hussein until we are in a position to neutralize the threat outlined in the anthrax letters. That is the overriding issue, and any discussion that you see or read that does not feature it front-and-center is bogus pablum.