OUTSTANDING post Joe Bob. Those are my feelings *exactly*

We've appeased Saddam for FAR too long. It's time to take action and thank God we have a President in office now who is willing to do more than blow up a Sudanese aspirin factory (which the U.S. is paying over 10 million dollars in reparations for BTW) and declare victory like Clinton did.

> ...and end the threat of Sod Em

> here's how NOT to do it...

> -Compromise and appease a dictator.

> -Continue play his game of cat and mouse,
> lies
> and deception for the next 10 years.

> -Use moral reasoning with someone with no
> morals or conscious.

> -Project a divided front so that Sod Em
> knows all he has to do is stall until the
> any coalitions falls apart

> -Have the false idea that you can leave
> inspectors in forever. As soon as Sod Em
> feels the threat is over he'll kick them out
> again.

> The real way to possibly avoid war?

> -The world provide a united front who tells
> him in no uncertain terms that they will
> remove him (and be willing to follow
> through) unless he totally and completely
> disarms all WMD.
> No more games.

> That's the ONLY negotiations a Sod Em
> understands.

> -He will either give in
> -Leave the country
> -Or defy and be removed

> But I bet he would comply or leave to save
> his own skin. But if not the problem would
> be solved and the world would be a better
> place.

> Joe Bob