Good one Arthur! You have a very fine sense of humor

4 months, indeed that is going to cost a lot of money. But nobody forced the US to place 300000 troops in the region. Also, I`m horrified by the idea that we are actually planning war, like we are planning our holidays.

There`s one word of french I`m not able to translate into English though, `finesse`. Any suggestions?:p

This war can not be legitimate since the US signed the UN-charter almost 60 years ago. For a rouge state this war could be justified. The current situation is totally different than the one before world war II, there is another option, through the UN. The United States is not under attack at this moment, so it can not class this action as self defence.

The crisis is comparable to the Suez-Crisis I guess.

Utter utter BS. I don`t expect anything else from the Washington post though, after insulting our military.

Seems like the pro-War activists always want to send letters to all kinds of newspaper, hoping that people will buy their crap. This is as pathetic as Aznar`s letter a couple of weeks ago.

Why do the Serbs worry you? I mean, there were 3 parties in a conflict, of which two were backed by NATO and one bombed by NATO. Serbs don`t worry me more than Croats or muslims living in Bosnia.

I don`t think Blair will walk away from this that easily, Jonesy. This is the first time in post war history that western allies openly opposed eachothers (in)actions. France can not turn back, especially since most of its people back the gov`t. Same for Germany, which had elections recently, and Belgium, which will hold elections in May.

I don`t think Blair would survive this war. Labour-MP`s already announced that they will hold a special meeting IF a war is to start. The Anglo-Saxon system allows ministers and MP`s from the same party to have different opinions, on the continent, the complete gov`t would already have collapsed, once it was clear that not all MP`s of their own party back the gov`t.

I don`t think Tony Blair was thinking of these kind of anti-war reactions in his own country and in Europe, when he lined up with GWB a year ago. And honestly I don`t think that he would do the same if he had another chance.

And there are already huge differences in this broad coalition of the US and the UK. Jack Straw still thinks war can be avoided, but American troops are already breaking through the fences of the DMZ between Iraq and Kuweit.

Wheter you are pro or anti-War, Jonesy, you have to admit that this British administration made a mistake following the Americans blindly. Blair is still a ****ing socialist. I think he had good intentions trying to influence GWB so that the latter would become more multilateral. But it was the other way around, it was GWB who poisened Tony`s ideas.

The US never attacked somalia as such