[Polycarp]

an invasion of Iraq without provocation would be illegal and imprudent

I think the relentless psy-ops campaign against Iraq is aimed at precipitating the provocation necessary thus making our planned invasion legal.

Furthermore, if Saddam is dumb enough to lash out in a first strike at Israel, which I feel is the unstated aim of this psy-ops campaign, no US invasion will be necessary. All that will be left for us is radiation containment and nation/government rebuilding.

[SEGUET]

"if Saddam is dumb enough to lash out in a first strike at Israel"

No he'll wait until we have 20,000 people in downtown Baghdad -then israel will be hell bent to nuke him & us because that would be an act of war on the US - wherein we'd have to "toast" Israel for the hell of it