There's ample evidence that the Iraqi's tried to conceal WMDs during the earlier UN weapon's inspection process. So we can take it for granted that they still have some WMDs. To my mind, here is the $64,000 question:

Has President Bush acquired trustworthy information from a sensitive source, deep inside Saddam's military-industrial infrastructure that is so frightening that the President must initiate immediate military action?

Valid examples of such military intelligence could be:

a sample of ultra virulent small-pox

a photo of an ex-Soviet ICBM reentry vehicle showing the serial number

That England's Prime Minister is fully on-board along with the Australian government makes me think such information has been discovered. That sort of information would be shared amongst trusted Canadian, English and Australian government officials. However the Canadian government has been making waffling sounds which confuses me. This information would not be revealed to the media because they would compromise the intelligence source within the Iraqi government. This information would only be revealed to select members of Congress but not all because there are some who would leak it to the media. I don't think the French could be trusted with this information and certainly not the current German government. Bush might tell Putin if it involved an ex-Soviet nuke. However the Russian's behavior would seem to indicate that they are not concerned about Iraq.

How cynical are these governments? If the French knew that the Iraqis had an ex-Soviet nuke, would they really attempt to block a preemptive action? Are they so short sighted that they would simply shrug it off and say this is an American/Israeli problem? Possibly yes... The French did sell that Osiris nuclear reactor to Saddam years ago and that was an incredibly unethical thing to do.

The local printed media has been trying to generate public opinion against this proposed war. Their arguments tend to be the same old stuff. Again, is this simply a cynical attempt to sell newspapers? Predictably, NPR radio is trotting out eloquent liberal pacifists who are saying exactly what one would expect them to say. I find the repeated argument that Bush is doing this to divert attention from the economy hard to swallow. This recession had already started before he took office. It would be much easier to simply label this a Clinton/Democrat recession thus ducking blame rather than start a war. The main stream media is too corrupt and cynical to be trusted.

There is too much conflicting information here.

Gary