[RonF]

You have to admit, though, that it's true that we've made promises in the past that we haven't kept.

[rudypoot]

True. But an attack on Saddam is going to affect them no matter what they do because they live there. They see it as: help, and see many causalties, or sit on the sideline and have Iraq handed to them by the US with less casualities. They know that Saddam is going regardless and they are taking the route of least resistance.