Well, folks, anytime after 7 p.m. Central time (48 hours after the speech tonight) Wednesday expect to see the troops charging the berms delineating the Iraq/Kuwait border and the Tomahawks flying towards beautiful downtown Baghdad.
We gave Saddam a chance to own up to WMD and to get rid of his stockpile; he instead gave us the proverbial finger by stalling and concealing and using every known diplomatic tool in his bag. We gave peace a chance, and when peace fails we must use other means to get rid of the threat.
Come Wednesday night, or at a later time and place of the President's choosing, it's open season on Saddam Hussein, his family and political sycophants... and there ain't no bag limit! There WILL be a bullet or a bomb or a missile with his name on it.
Watch Saddam hose off a few Scuds towards Israel or encourage terrorists to attack us at home to try to instill fear. I wouldn't be surprised if he whips out his WMD 'Norbecker' (you have to have watched the movie
Beer to get the in-joke
) to slow down our inexorable march towards Baghdad. And the Israelis have already stated they WILL retaliate if attacked.
BTW VP Cheney probably is sitting at some 'undisclosed' location in the Federal Relocation Arc, possibly Mount Weather or Raven Rock Mountain. Or some other classified relocation center we don't even know (or have the need to know) about.
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (or is it Yamamoto Isoroku... using the proper Japanese/Chinese/Korean method of naming?) was quoted as saying:
"I had intended to deal a fatal blow to the American fleet by attacking Pearl Harbor... I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant, and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Less than two years later, Yamamoto was shot out of the sky. Three and a half years later, Japan was a near-total ruin.