[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Also expected was a travel warning advising Americans to stay away from Iraq.

These State Department people are real masters of the obvious.

[Indy Pendance]

But then again, we've got women who think they can stop saddam...

U.S. Women Plan Peace Trip To Iraq

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -- Three New York women calling themselves the Hudson Valley Peace Brigade say they're heading to Iraq Saturday for a 10 day mission of peace.

They set up the trip through a group called Voices in the Wilderness. The international group has brought hundreds of people in and out of Iraq since the Gulf War as a challenge to war and U.N. sanctions.

The women deny they're going over to act as "human shields" against an attack. Manna Jo Greene says their bodies won't stop bullets or bombs. She says what they're hoping to do is bring a message of peace.

They also plan to plant a "peace pole" in Baghdad, deliver art supplies for children and dig ditches to hold water in the event of war.