http://www.smh.com.au/news/0203/02/world/world3.html
"Washington is setting the stage for new Gulf War
The US is embarking on a new chapter in its "war on terror", and Saddam Hussein is in its sights. International Editor Hamish McDonald looks at how the campaign will unfold, and its risks.
Saddam Hussein has just under a year left in power, max, if the gathering consensus among Western military experts about the Bush Administration's thinking is right.
Twelve years of foxing the United Nations arms inspection regimes is enough for the Americans, says one such expert, John Chipman, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
"It's now a given in Washington that as soon as there is a military strategy worked out and a diplomatic pretext, the United States will use military force in Iraq," Chipman says, adding: "The purpose of any military operation against Iraq this time around would be clear and unambiguous. It would be the decapitation of Saddam Hussein."
However, the campaign carries some truly scary risks. Rather than wait for the inevitable,
a cornered Saddam could lash out with pre-emptive strikes using any remaining stocks of biological or chemical weapons, either against massing US forces, or against Israel."
jewish homeland or not, i'd be taking a little holiday to fiji if i were a resident
