[Faraday]

Rest assured our "allies" in Europe will hop on the train

This may not be true. More important is support from Russia. (I do believe the Brits will be with us.) Europe seems to have chosen the path of economic stagnation (at best) and cultural suicide. Until the people there rise up and put an end to the socialist malaise, I don't much care whether they support us or not. The European moral condemnation of US (ICC, Kyoto, death penalty, unilateralism, Gitmo, Israel, etc.) and their pathetic military structures does not compute.

[flamefront]

A U.S. official said the Bush administration has sent envoys to the Middle East to relay the U.S. determination to destroy the Saddam regime. The official, who did not want to be identified, said the Defense Department has been meeting with Arab analysts and journalists in an effort to sway public opinion against Iraq. The Pentagon has also discussed with Saudi nationals likely Iraqi targets of any U.S. war and distributed satellite photographs of sensitive Iraqi installations, including Saddam's palaces.

Here Arabs, tell Saddam to evacuate these sites.

The U.S. are clearing the way for an infettered Wahhabism to build a bridge to the eighth century.