>>>A coalition of allies would be very helpful, and Arab allies wouldn't suck either.

I'm starting to get the feeling that the administration is coming around to this. Hope so.

>>The UN can jump up my butt.

OK then.

>>>Inspection/sanction is not going to work. The fact that it is literally impossible to find what we need to find as long as Saddam's government is actively moving things around does not seem to enter into a lot of calculations here. I could hide a tank battalion in underground facilities in Iraq that God himself couldn't find without the help of some fink on the inside. As for a one-room biolab, get real.

>>>As for sanctions, we have already seen how successful those are.

I think they can and do work (cf: South Africa). But you need to have more countries on board. In this case, we would need Russia and France to support them in more than name only.

>>>Even if the Iraqi government is destroyed, and the WMD programs paralyzed, it would still probably take years to find all the hidden stuff that's in there. And that's assuming we can hold a tight enough perimeter to keep it from dribbling over the border.

I don't share your views about how impossible it is to find development programs and stockpiles.