[Amelia]

“Realities tend to come in rather late,” this diplomat said of the administration. “They are thinking ‘We have the power, the will and the bases. Let’s do it ourselves.’ ” But he said he hoped the Americans were “beginning to realize that it’s all connected — the Mideast, Afghanistan, oil, Russia, China, North Korea, the economy.”

I suspect some of the countries who are most reluctant to back us in the Security Council might also be those who've been secretly, and in defiance of UN resolutions, shipping missile and other weapon parts to Iraq.

(And yes, I do suspect that there are countries on the Security Council that have been doing this, but I could be wrong.)

[Grampa Dave]

Like maybe France, Germany, Russia, China and of course the NK's are countries that have been shipping weapons and tech for WMD to Uncle Soddomite for decades.

If Uncle Soddomite gets cleared of the chess board and Iran falls quickly afterwards, these countries have lost a lot of their yearly GNP.

[Howlin]

I suspect some of the countries who are most reluctant to back us in the Security Council might also be those who've been secretly, and in defiance of UN resolutions, shipping missile and other weapon parts to Iraq.

And I think we have a RIGHT to know who those countries are; if they insist that we let the inspectors in before WE go, we should have the right to tell everybody just whose side everybody is on.