Its a scary trend nowdays that anyone who disagrees = enemy. We even see it at home with Reps and Dems. They are no longer differing ideologies.
If a republican diasagrees with a democrat, a libertairian is not encouraged to rape his neigbors wife.
When diplomatic strength and resolve is required, France and Germany suddenly get weak knees. Saddam is encouraged to continue playing cat and mouse.
This has the hideous potential of costing even more lives. Every extra day that murdering dictator gets means a stronger better prepared iraq will be waiting to greet us... and just as dangerous.. gives the iraq's even more opportunity to distribute materials to his new AQ pals.
10 years of dodging inspectors, violating and defying UN mandates.. and france wants to give saddam more time because NOW iraq is 'willing'?
In the court of world opinion, we've lost... the world seems to want the inspections to continue. The question now is, do we do what we said we were gonna do, or do we fold our hand and wait while saddams people play 3 card montie with WMD?
I keep asking myself two questions..
1. What's the REAL reason behind old europes staunch defense of an inspection program that has 10 years of failure behind it?
2. Whats the middle east going to look like the day after we go into Iraq, with or without a UN mandate?