[virgil]

I like Pres Bush and I am glad he is president and not Al Gore. I agree that diplomacy will not make Saddam disarm, only force or the threat of it will make him do it. But a different approach of diplomacy should have been used with garnering support for the war. I think going to the UN for most of the diplomatic effort was a big mistake and Bush is wasting our time and money right now. He should have worked behind the scenes with heads of state in Europe to get support. Some of them, like Germany, may still have not gone along anyway, but Germany doesn't have a vote on the security council. It was a mistake to work through the UN, there are too many bad guys in the UN. It has only given a forum for anti-American voices of people like Joscka Fischer and SH.

[Howlin]

I can understand what you mean. I don't know WHY he/they did this; looking back, it wasn't such a hot plan.

Perhaps he didn't realize France wanted to be King of the Mountain.