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[GOPJ]

"Pentagon says at least one US serviceman killed in bombing near Philippines "

Will Baghdad Bonior offer comfort to the men who killed this young serviceman, or maybe spit in the eye of the young man's mother? How about calling his Commander and Chief a liar? Come on creepy democrats, step up to the plate.

[Mr. Mojo]

Washington it is said, is now huddling with French diplomats who favor a "two-step" approach.

I favor a four-step approach:
1) completely destroy whatever is left of the Iraqi military.
2) find and destroy all their WMD (which could take quite a while).
3) Annex all their oil fields.
4) Build a giant U.S. military base right on Iraqi soil, and restation our soldiers currently stationed in Europe to do so.

[hchutch]

The only option we have then is to attack before the inspectors arrive. Break out all the evidence of that meeting in Prague and the al-Qaeda types hiding in Iraq. Then dare the UN to do something about it.

[dennisw]

GWBush stepped into a tar baby by going this UN route. Now this inspection nonsense will be dragging on forever.

I don't see Saddam doing anything to upset the UN applecart. I would love to know who's on this inspection team. I hear few Americans are. How serious will these inspectors be? By taking Saddam's palaces off the list I already know the answers.

[Barnacle]

UN has decided to send its first group of inspectors into Baghdad on October 19.

Fine, the shooting should be over by then.

[Printers Angel]

If George Bush held a press conference today and announced that the United States wanted completely out of the UN...I wonder what would happen?

[repub32]

HMMMM, seems real sneaky to me. Does any think that maybe the Un is doing this CAUSE they Know we cant bomb if their inspectors are in there?????????????

[My2Cents]

We need to unilaterally bomb Baghdad before the inspectors arrive.

It's apparent that this needs to be President G.W. Bush's foreign policy legacy: reestablishing US sovereignty over whatever the UN proposes to do.

[Man of the Right]

Blix and the U.N. are on a fool's errand. The weakness of their position is they can't deliver Saddam.

[mhking]

Short of a vote in the Security Council, it was not clear how the U.S. could block such a move.

Uh, taking out the landing strip?

[DreamWeaver]

It was in December 1998, that UN arms chief Richard Butler decided to pull weapons inspectors out of Iraq in advance of Operation Desert Fox.

Now wait a minute ! Who is telling lies here ? All I have been hearing all the time, is that they were kicked out by Saddam. Even Rumsfeld. Can anyone answer this question ? I'm asking this question in all sincerity.

[ampat]

I don't support going ahead with the inspection without a new UN resolution. If the inspection goes ahead without the resolution and the inspectors can't do their job, then once we've ousted Saddum, then oust the UN from US soil, and withdraw from that sham of an organization. We could do more for the rest of the world by ourselves, by cutting out that expensive middle man of an organization.