A brief, but interesting, read.

[mburbank]

I agree with all of the above reasoning, I just don't think W could follow it. I don't mean that flippantly, I think it's the Gods own truth.

Two comments;

Nuclear Blackmail, no. Oil Blackmail. Absolutely.

For those who say that this war doesn't have a propensity for widening, concider what will happen when we start divying up oil availability as favors. Don't say we won't, we just threatened it.

On a side note; When W states repeatedly that if the U.N. does not endorse force in Iraq and soon it will become irrelivant, is he merely threatening war without UN sanction, or is he pulling a Helms and suggesting US withdrawl from the UN, thereby removing the only mechanism in place, however faulty, for avoiding war as the primary international method of adjudicating dispute? Think about it. US wiithdrawl from the UN would only be the logical end point of the treaty withdrawls and refusal to participatre in or abide by an international court system. I personally think this is where W. is heading.