[Jennifer in Florida]

Maybe this, the details today about the "shock and awe" (something like that?) and also Drudge's announcement that Bush is making THE decision tonight is all meant to scare the heck out of Saddam? Try to get him to leave in exile? Maybe it's meant to scare the Iraqis into a coup?

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Bingo! We have a winner!

I saw several things today that indicated to me that the time is imminent and they are doing everything they can preemptively to encourage Saddam's generals, etc. that it's gonna be ugly and they would be better off overthrowing him because they are going to lose anyway.

[SuziQ]

Try to get him to leave in exile? Maybe it's meant to scare the Iraqis into a coup?

Might get some folks to start moving around the country; the better for us to track them so we can pinpoint their whereabouts next week.

[SauronOfMordor]

Maybe this, the details today about the "shock and awe" (something like that?) and also Drudge's announcement that Bush is making THE decision tonight is all meant to scare the heck out of Saddam? Try to get him to leave in exile?

Sadaam will not leave under his own power. Yes, he has plenty of money salted away in various countries, but it's not about money -- it's about POWER.

Sadaam, for the past several decades, has been in the position where he could kill anybody in Iraq who he felt like, and have any woman he felt like dragged to his bed to do with as he pleased. He's a certified psychopath. He would not last a week in any place of exile where he would have to behave like a civilized human. He can't do it. He knows it. He's going to stay until he dies, however that happens

[EarlyBird]

Maybe it's meant to scare the Iraqis into a coup?

I think it's meant to scare the French and the Russians into abstensions. Diddo with the leak about Bush deciding tonight.