[BlackVeil]

"my guess is that we will engineer a way for him to leave power without actually killing him" About 2 years ago, there was an article in "Foreign Affairs", suggesting that putting Saddam into a position where he has to either resist or commit suicide is not a good stragegy. Perhaps someone is thinking beyond it. But is he?

[The Great Satan]

My guess would be that Team Bush identified the essential dynamics of the situation last September and everything they are now doing is coordinated towards the end of isolating Saddam and then easing him out, minimizing the risk to our civilian population. I think the strategy with Arafat -- the carefully modulated phsase down -- is a prototype for that operation.