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To: Win Smith who started this subject	12/17/2002 10:01:50 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) of 603

Hi all; The Guardian reports on attitude in Washington towards war: Ready for battle Matthew Engel, December 17, 2002 As a low, dishonest year nears its end, the online magazine Slate is running a daily Saddameter, complete with witty commentary, assessing the chances of a war with Iraq. In the past week it has shot up from just over 50% to 67%. Yet I don't know anyone in Washington who hasn't felt for some time that the odds were more like 80-90%. The energy behind this enterprise has such power that it has long been difficult to imagine the circumstances in which it wouldn't happen. Behind the Bushies' enthusiasm for war, the political timetable is creating the same sense of inevitability as the railway timetable in 1914. If the US lost the winter window of climatic opportunity and waited another year, it would allow a new post-Gore Democratic frontrun ner (irrelevant whether it's a hawk like Lieberman or a dove like Kerry) to paint Bush as indecisive. Round here, that is the unthinkable. The government's relish for war suffuses the whole city, yet I have caught no sign of it anywhere outside Washington. ... guardian.co.uk -- Carl

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