Poor warhawks

Poor warhawks. They're so frustrated. For more than a decade they have been trying to get you and Congress to let them resume the Gulf War. But there are these maddening distractions. Afghanistan. Palestine. Kashmir.

How can they ever get you to believe they've got to go kill Saddam, this very day, lest he nuke you, tonight, in your jammies?

Actually, depending upon the rationale the warhawks use, your chances of getting nuked in your jammies may be increased – rather than decreased – if the warhawks violate the terms and conditions of the cease-fire between Iraq and the "the coalition of Member States cooperating with Kuwait."

You see, for years the warhawks claimed that Saddam would nuke you with his own home-made nukes. But, the International Atomic Energy Agency – acting pursuant to the Gulf War cease-fire resolution – certified that the Iraqi nuke infrastructure has been completely destroyed and, as of December 1998, was not being rebuilt.