Okay, I don’t know when the US will try to drop the hammer on Iraq, but we all know it’s going to happen unless some new situation develops. Such is the sad state of democracy these days. Our representatives no longer even try to pretend they represent us. Most Americans do not want this war, but congress has become the president’s rubber stamp. That’s some 400-500 people minus a few here and there with an actual spine.
Jerusalem Post: Ben-Eliezer: US will attack Iraq in November:
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said last night that he expects an American attack on Iraq by late November. “It’s possible it will begin toward the end of November,” Ben-Eliezer told Labor Party ministers in Tel Aviv.
Ben-Eliezer stressed that Israel is ready for any eventuality.
He spoke after military sources told Israel Radio they now do not expect Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to launch Scud missiles carrying non-conventional warheads at Israel because this would prove to the world that the Americans are right in claiming he has such weapons.
Or, how about something more likely: that Iraq does not possess nor intend to use these weapons. So basically, Hussein is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. If he doesn’t use chemical weapons war-mongers will say it was because he was sufficiently cowed by their aggressive rhetoric not because he doesn’t have any.