[MadIvan]

Excellent.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Semper Paratus]

Controlled leak or Bravo Sierra?

[VRWC_minion]

The bus is leaving the terminal and France isn't on it.

[jwalburg]

Should be hours

[esoteric]

Thank you for excellent coverage. As always, right on top of the situation. And...bump.

[Dog Gone]

Despite Bush's pledge to force nations to lay their cards on the table, everyone already has.

I don't really care what Mexico or Cameroon thinks. Their cards aren't important anywhere outside of the Security Council.

What is needed is the final ultimatum, along with a warning for the UN inspectors to leave. I think that will happen.

[Normal4me]

Does anyone here actually believe he will accept exile? Who would take him? (besides France ;) Would he also not be sought for war crimes?

I say we just put a drone with a hellfire missile strapped to it and do some weapons "Testing".

[VRWC_minion]

I and others have realised that the French posturing for peace has made diplomacy impossible and war almost inevitable."

Chirac overplayed his hand while the bumbler, Bush, sets up for the big score again.

[stboz]

Oh, he'll run alright. He'll run just in time to pull another Osama........betcha can't find me! Great Britain and the U.S. should have already struck.....and without warning. It's the one thing they don't expect of us.

[PJ-Comix]

But even if Saddam Hussein leaves Iraq, how do we know it's really him? It could be one of his many lookalikes.

[Allan]

Please no more ultimata! Just kill him.

[tet68]

RE; Robin Cook.

Blair is now considering offering him a job as a European commissioner to replace Neil Kinnock or Chris Patten, who are due to leave Brussels next year.


Hell no, make him live in France.

[UncleSamUSA]

Thanks for posting this Ivan. I hope the Sunday Times' sources are, as they say, spot-on, and that what they are reporting is accurate.

Because that means the countdown to the liberation of Iraq is on, and it is just about showtime.

[Maeve]

By all means, send Cook to Brussells!

[DannyTN]

"I and others have realised that the French posturing for peace has made diplomacy impossible and war almost inevitable.

Ha, I love it. The war is France's fault. But there is some truth to that. However, war was always the solution. Disarmament was always going to be impossible to prove and would never solve Iraq's support for terrorism.

"Bush has been advised by the CIA that the likelihood of a military coup against Saddam has increased."

A coup is a strong possibility once the US gives the deadline. I don't see Saddam fleeing, he is too arrogant. There is a possibility that instead of a coup the current military leadership will ask Saddam to consider exile, whereupon they will be shot and Saddam will have to replace them.

More worrisome would be a staged coup, where Saddam retains power behind the new power and then returns to power after the US troops have left. I really expect something along these lines will unfold.

[Maeve]

May we call Brussel sprouts "English sprouts" now?

[Maeve]

Bump.

[Reagan Man]

>>>BRITAIN and America are to issue a stark ultimatum to Saddam Hussein — get out of Iraq or face war later this week.

It's time Saddam either slithered away in the night, or was removed from power by the US-British coalition of willing nations.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

MadIvan, I've been playing that Rule Britannia MP3 off and on throughout the day. Thumping good!

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Things are afoot. Us folks in the international side are seeing things develop before they hit the domestic papers.