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Originally posted by Undertoad
Bush is announcing right now that he WILL consult congress and have a serious dialogue about the issues involved. Tony Blair will arrive in DC on Saturday.
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Well, discussion with England really doesn't mean much internationally -- England has been a decent US ally even when the rest of the Western world was giving us raspberries. And Bush seems to have an inborn talent for pissing off other world leaders.
I personally don't see any reason to move against Saddam -- but of course, it's quite possible that all of this saber rattling really is for a reason such as imminent Iraqi nukes (details as yet undisclosed) and not just an attempt by Bush to maintain his own popularity.
As for dropping one on Tel Aviv -- Saddam probably isn't that stupid. Israel almost certainly has better delivery systems than Iraq, and there's no way they wouldn't strike back in kind, no matter how unofficial their own nuclear capability is.