Interesting. And the MAD may have been the reason for the sudden end to the last stand-off. Still, how do you handle the situation if Saddam 'comes clean' presupposing that there will be a war if he doesn't?
Saddam can never come clean, because his hands are bloody, and we know it, and we have the goods on him. The main thing you need to understand is that everything is the opposite of what the media tells you. Bush is not straining to cobble together evidence linking Saddam to Al-Qaeda and 9-11. Quite the opposite. Bush is deliberately hiding the fact that he has understood that Saddam was the author of 9-11 all along. Until you understand that -- I mean really "grok" it -- you cannot have any hope of understanding or analyzing the current world situation correctly. It is that simple.