We will see if the French have painted themselves into a corner where Powell can't squeeze them a way out. If you think Bush is not going to order the troops into Iraq, (if Saddam is still in power,) in the next four weeks, you are smoking something illegal.
Well, I've often argued the best way to deal with a great deal of crime would be to make some of that stuff legal. But that's another topic for another thread.
One of the chief characteristics of Bush himself, in so far as he's the one calling the shots and it looks, increasingly as if that's so, is that he talks a macho, gun slinger kind of game but plays a much more political one. I don't doubt he'll eventually go into Iraq; he's too far out on the limb. He's, in effect, met Richard Perle's fate for him. But I think he and Powell will work extraordinarily hard to get that overwhelming UNSC approval before going. Lots deals to make, etc. Bush's problem is, to repeat myself too many times today, he's his own worst enemy in much of this stuff. |
