[BCrago66]

Bush is working on a list of breaches. But however wo do it, eventually we'll have to break with Europeans. It is absurb to contract out America'a national security to a diplomat named Blix, and I trust that President Bush will not do that.

[Route66]

You are right. We will eventually break with the Europeans and we won't be counting on Blix to make our case for us. But we will probably wait for something we can present to the American people and the world - with a few pics from orbit and other show and tell items to make our case. [Something like the way the Kennedy administration showed the missiles in Cuba after they and the USSR swore that they were not there.]

[cake_crumb]

"It is absurb to contract out America'a national security to a diplomat named Blix, and I trust that President Bush will not do that."

Yeah, me too...and I believe that he has no intention of it.

"Aggressive is an American quality. You are aggressive in business. That’s fine. Aggression is prohibited under U.N. charter. And as a European, I would rather use the word dynamic and effective"

--Hans Blix, conceding to Steve Kroft that the UN inspectors might fail miserably (AGAIN).

[johnb838]

It is absurb to contract out America'a national security to a diplomat named Blix, and I trust that President Bush will not do that.

Or contract out the nuclear piece of the investigation to a functionary named Mohammed?

[oldtimer]

I can just see Rumsfeld doing that.