"I think it is very important for us to wait and see what the inspectors come up with, and hopefully they come up with something conclusive," retired general Schwarzkopf said in an interview with the Washington Post.

Norman Schwarzkopf BBC article

Excerpt from a Captiol Hill Blue article:

Capitol Hill Blue has learned the Joint Chiefs of Staff are split over plans to invade Iraq in the coming weeks. They have asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumseld to urge Bush to back down from his hard line stance until United Nations weapons inspectors can finish their jobs and the U.S. can build a stronger coalition in the Middle East.

“This is not Desert Storm,” one of the Joint Chiefs is reported to have told Rumseld. “We don’t have the backing of other Middle Eastern nations. We don’t have the backing of any of our allies except Britain and we’re advocating a policy that says we will invade another nation that is not currently attacking us or invading any of our allies.”

Full CHB article

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