...who has complained that one of our main problems in mid-east affairs is that our planning cycle is 4 years at a time.

Now you have a serious problem with that being changed.

This is the stance that this country and the UN should have been taking for the past 11 years.

It appears that because we did NOT take this stance...that everyone here thinks it more relevent that he didn't invade anyone >yesterday< and use that to pretend that Saddam is now harmless...we should leave him alone because he didn't kill anybody >today<.

Make up your mind.