Negroponte on now (US ambassador to UN) and is telling the reporters that they will wait for the inspectors' report on the 27th.
I am remembering a quote from a speech a while back:
This conflict will end at a time and place of our choosing.
I found a somewhat longer, but also accurate line from one of two articles Tom Clancy wrote after 9/11:
From:
http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/news/article.html?in_article_id=72728
"Military organisations exist for only one mission: killing people and breaking things. This is not something to be undertaken lightly, because life is a gift from God, and a lot of these people - kids, really - can be found in church on Sunday mornings. But their larger purpose - the reason these kids enlist, both in my country and in yours - is to preserve, protect, and defend their nations and the citizens who live there.
"It's not an easy job, but someone has to do it, and typically the hardest jobs attract the best of us. Mostly they never have to kill anybody, and that's okay with them. It's knowing that they are able to do something difficult and dangerous that gives them their pride.
"This purpose, defending their country, is something they don't talk much about, but it's always there, and with it comes a quiet, steely look in the eyes. Especially when something like this happens. That's when their sense of self is insulted, and these are people who do not bear insults well.
"They are protectors, and when those whom they are sworn to protect are hurt, then comes the desire - the lust - to perform their mission. Even then it's quiet. They will not riot or pose before TV cameras or cry aloud for action, because that's not their way. They are the point of the lance, the very breath of the dragon, and at times like this they want to know the taste of blood.
"Their adversaries just don't appreciate what they are capable of. It's something too divorced from their experience. This isn't like hosing civilians with your machine-gun or setting off a bomb somewhere, or killing unarmed people strapped and helpless inside a commercial aircraft.
"This means facing professional warriors at a time and place of their choosing, and that is something terrorists don't really prepare for."
Somehow, I don't think Saddam's ready for that, either.