I don't doubt he'll be gone by then. Bush isn't sitting around and twiddling his thumbs. The wheels have already been put into motion. As he's said many times before, there will be operations that no one will ever know about. The weather is going to be changing in the later part of this year. I don't think the President really gives a hoot about Ramadan...he showed that last year. I think he's fired the warning shot to the UN, the next shot will be fired to the Congress. If those two affinities decide to sit on their thumbs and not get on board, he'll just do what he has to do.
It's now over a year since Saddam Hussein's terrorist proxies destroyed the World Trade Center and came within a hair's breadth of destroying the Capitol. Bush announced almost immediately that his policy was to remove Saddam Hussein. Today, he blinked, punting things back to the UN, which will now spend several months in games with Iraq over the weapons inspectors.
When Clinton decided to get rid of Milosevic, it took all of three months to accomplish the mission. What does Saddam have that Milosevic didn't have, that he can survive so much longer, while presenting an infinitely greater threat to the US? (Clue: it starts with "A" and ends with "X").