[mburbank]

Yeah, Bubba, I'd say that your whole argument is completely devalued by spelling errors.

Actually, you pretty much said everything I was going to say.

I may be wrong, but I think Hinky would be much less enamored of probability theory if he had to think about it lieing underneath the rubble of what was once his home as opposed to cozily on his couch in his underwear.

Or I could be wrong. He could calculate the probability of death by blood loss versus death by dehydration and plot it against possibility of rescue. That would probably take his mind off the agony.

You quote the original UN resolution as if it was an immutable law of physics instead of a decision arrived at by people and subject to change. I'm not sure how you felt on 9/11, but I'd hazard to guess that when multiple buildings get blown up in Iraq in a couple of days and people burn and jump out of buildings and lose limbs and loved ones, they'll feel the same way. I'm not really sure of the value of a probability analysis based on a badly flawed UN resolution will be of much comfort to either suffering Iraqis or the family of dead american servicemen.