I just wish we would get this overwith. I am not sure what we are waiting for. The inspectors could be there for 10 years and they will not find anything. The country is too big and they don't know the place as well as Saddam. Whether you support the war or not, it is going to happen. Lets just get it over and done.

"Lets just get it over and done."

Sounds like high school girls that can't wait to lose their virginity.

This is a war I remind you.

AC, what are we waiting for? Why don't we just accept that Bush is Dictator For Life and move on? That makes about as much sense.

This is the first open war of conquest in US history. The closest we came before was the Spanish-American War and even then there was the fig leaf of the USS Maine.

If the inspectors find WMD it proves Saddam has been cheating. If they don't find them, it is also evidence of cheating? Hence the criterion for cheating is that Bush says so? He has proof that maybe he will show in a couple of weeks? Waiting for the ink to dry, maybe?

With this action, the US joins Nazi Germany, the USSR and Fascist Italy in history.

The problem I have with inspections is that unless Iraq tells the inspectors where to find the WMD then the goal is impossible. Let me explain it this way. If I tell you and 100 people that I have hidden a 10 pound bag of sugar in my house, There is a good chance you and/or 100 people still couldn't find where I hid the bag. If I told you I hid the bag in one of the houses on my street (12 houses) I could almost guarantee you could never find it. If I said I hid it somewhere in my city, then I could be reasonably certain you would never find the bag of sugar I hid...if I said I hid it somewhere in my state, then I could guarantee you that you would never find the 10 pound bag of sugar that I've hidden. Inspections are not going to work. We need to either go to war or contain Iraq as we have for 12 years. This is where the argument should be. The whole world KNOWS Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, the question should be what should we do about it. To say the inspectors must prove Iraq doesn't have WMD makes us look totally foolish.

Since you cut and pasted your reply from the thread above, I will do the same.

"I said I hid it somewhere in my state, then I could guarantee you that you would never find the 10 pound bag of sugar that I've hidden."

Which is bigger, a bag of sugar or a nuclear weapons program?

"The whole world KNOWS Iraq has weapons of mass destruction"

Whoa, when did this happen. Last I checked, we know nothing of the sort.

I understand people here are against the war. However, I am just telling you that it is going to happen anyway. The sooner the better.

This is the mindset of the right? That Mr. Bush said there's gonna be a war so darn tootin' there's gonna be a war. No good reason needed. Nope, we're 'muricans. Don't need a good reason.

No wonder this country is in deep, deep trouble. The lives of hundreds or thousands of people (Americans included; and I'm counting "homeland" Americans put at risk by those bent on revenge for unprovoked U.S. aggression)are not worth even attempting to put the brakes on a deadly PR stunt? Astounding.