A Freudian slip from ITN.
THEY JUST LOVE SADDAM: The Palestinians, of course. But the flipside of this is actually quite good. Without Saddam’s sponsorship of Palestinian terror, the leaders might actually have some incentive to reach a peace agreement.
SPIN AND SQUIRM: Here’s a piece from Australia, upping the ante on what a “victory” would have to look like to justify war:
The failure of our leaders’ efforts to sell this war raises the threshold of defining a satisfactory outcome. Victory must be total. It must uncover huge stocks of chemical and biological weapons. It must avoid significant civilian and – on our side – military casualties. Iraq must become a democracy where centuries of ethnic and religious rivalry can be settled by talking. Its territorial integrity must be preserved. There must be no humanitarian tragedy.
It’s a good sign that the appeasers are beginning to ratchet up their demands. It means that some of the obvious ones are in danger of being met.
The Dish 