On the Brink

This evening, President Bush issued an ultimatum to Saddam and his top aides. Leave Iraq within 48 hours! Tick, tick, tick, the clock is steadily advancing. Time is passing, time is running out...

I for one, am pleased this soap opera known as the "Disarming of Iraq" is finally coming to a close. Having served in Desert Shield/Storm, I think it is gratifying that we now have a President willing to enforce the cease fire agreement from 1991.

I for one am concerned that the UN Security Council was unwilling to back up it's words with it's promises of force. If the UN is afraid to act, then brave nations must. I am sad that the loss of 3,000 lives is not enough to persuade our allies to see beyond their own self interests. Hitler in Germany started out as a crackpot that motivated a nation through force and intimidation to start a global conquest. If only he had been put out of business after his invasion of Poland. The millions of Jewish lives lost, the takeover of vast parts of Europe by the Communist Soviets, the start of the Cold War. All could have been avoided...The waste...

Tick, tick, tick, time is moving on, sand through the hour-glass, 12 years of messing around half heartedly playing politics with other nations, Saddam rearming, rebuilding, getting bolder, defying the world, Saddam's time is drawing near, tick, tick, tick...

It really amazes me that a small county can split the industrialized nations so profoundly. The new world order is being devided between the French, Germans, Russians, and Syrians on one side and the US, UK, Spain, Australia, and finally Turkey on the other. Why isn't Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, or UAE speaking out in support of Saddam? Tick, tick, tick, time is drawing near...