I'm still a little hazy here, bear with me. What I don't understand is, if President Bush has no intention of actually attacking Iraq, why all the sabre-rattling NOW? Do you think he thought maybe he could bluff Saddam into actually cooperating with weapons inspectors? And if Saddam indeed has the WMD trump card, and Bush knows it, then what would give him the idea that such a bluff was likely to succeed?
Personally, I hope we do attack, and soon. Only because I believe that the WMD threat is not likely to go away on its own, and we might as well act while we've got someone in the White House who is willing to do something about it. As popular as the President is now, he could still lose in 2004, meaning unless we get a sensible Dem in the White House, it would be until at least January 2009 before revisiting the issue.
If attacking Iraq means sacrificing lives here at home, including potentially my loved ones or even myself, I think it's inevitable. And acting now will probably SAVE countless lives down the road. Plus, it would mitigate the deterrent value of WMDs, as other counties would see that we're willing to absorb those losses for the greater good of destroying their regimes.
I hope very much that the WMD threat is overblown. I have a feeling we're going to find out, and soon.
I couldn't agree more. I've been saying almost exactly this same thing for weeks now.