WAR IN THE OFFING

Iraq has reportedly delivered chemical weapons to selected Republican Guards units. Didn't Saddam just say, today, that Iraq doesn't even have any such weapons anymore?

Turkey will now allow the US to form a northern thrust from its soil.

Meanwhile in France, a Jewish woman who took part in a debate on the Israel-Palestinian issue was attacked a couple of hours later--and the attackers carved a Star of David into her wrist.

March 2003 has become September 1939. This time is markedly different from the last--no holocaust, thanks to the existence of Israel, and we're taking care of the current menace before he has the chance to start off a much bigger war--but the issues are remarkably similar. A loser who flouts the law, an international community too spineless to deal with him, and a few courageous leaders who'll do the right thing and save the day. And behind the enemy, a murderous ideology that's spreading across Europe and the Middle East like a spark in a tinderbox.