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I don't think anyone remembers me posting this, but what we seem to be doing is calling up our enemy and telling him over the phone that we'll be right over to kick his @ss. We don't want to invade. We want the Iraqi people to overthrow their dictator so that thousands of their people won't die.

I suspect it won't be the Iraqi people, but a military cabal, which works. The people could do it in Iran. That could well be the idea, since I don't see the preparations for a ground war, particularly one where we could be fighting both Iraq and Iran. I question whether it's smart to depend on that, but maybe we have a year to waste.

Whatever operations they have in mind for Sadam, they had better take an angry Iran into account. Even though the Shite's and Sunnis just barely tolerate each other, they combined hate Isreal and the U.S. even more. The myth of the reasonable Iranian Mullah that is being put forth by several Washinton think tanks, is just that, a myth. Sadam wants to be Salidin and unite the Arab (and Persian!) world under him. Isreal is once again, the key.