I'm concerned we won't. So is Mark Steyn in

his latest in the National Post. When Bush

revels with imams celebrating ramadan, we're

in heaps o' trouble. He's wimped out on us.

What would you have Bush do?



Tell the imams to go get lost because he's at war with Muslims everywhere?



Bush'll get what he wants. This isn't an issue he can go halfway on unlike education for instance.

By my unofficial count, this is the fourth time since 9-11 that folks have claimed Bush has "gone wobbly".

It was the same before the attack on Afghanistan.

I agree with Harry; I am worried he won't attack. He seems to have been caught flat-footed by Hussein's agreement for inspections. Of course, this could all be a stall on Bush's part to accumulate forces in the region or align diplomatic interests, but I get the feeling he is making it up on the fly.

Muslims everywhere are at war with us. Until

the religion jettisons the idea that dar-al-Harb

must be brought into dar-al-Islam, the conflict

will never end.



It has been continuous for 1,400 years.



I don't see how Islam can jettison that part of

itself. But it had better. The five-sixths of the

world that controls 99.9% of the military

power is not going to put up with Muslim

assaults forever.

Hmm... nice of the columnist to elevate Perle to "top security advisor" and give him a Ph.D., but neither one is true...

Bush will attack . . . Dec 8 is end of Ramadan and deadline for Saddam to list his weapons. Look for things to heat up soon after . . . Saddam's "acceptance" of inspections didn't surprise anybody, least of all Bush. His tactics have been delay, delay since 9/11. Bush went to the UN for political/diplomatic reasons, those have been achieved, the price of that achievement was delaying the attack until Saddam has failed to cooperate. That's only a short delay.