Happy Saint Patty's Day. No I'm not wearing green. I'm Scottish. OK, partly. Not much Irish to speak of. Go ahead, pinch me...

And the inspectors have been told to pack their bags and get out of Baghdad. That's the sign. All the warriors are in place. The Iraqi generals have taken up their positions. The time has come. There's a prezidential speech scheduled tonight to tell us what we already know. Powell already broke the news that there won't be another vote. Can't win the vote. Now it's just us and Britain against whatever it is we didn't find. We didn't find much. Either it didn't exist, or we're about to find it the hard way.

Hope the TV cameras are rolling. This is the most expensive fireworks display in history. It would be a shame not to get it on tape.

Last time if you recall, we spent the 24 hours preceding the attack moving our entire offensive position a few hundred miles to the left. Wouldn't work this time because we only have minimal Saudi support and Saddam would be expecting such a move. Or so they say. Everybody is piled up around Kuwait. Hmmm. You wouldn't do that unless you were going to do the same thing all over again. Flanking maneuver. And if that were the case, everybody would have to be on the move big time, starting around now. The alternative is rolling over the top of the most fortified Iraqi positions. Surely they couldn't be thinking that. No, where could they move them? Turkey? Perhaps. Saudi Arabia again? Hmmm... Nobody would be expecting it. I mean they would, but they wouldn't.

But no, even from Arabia there's too much ground to cover in too little time to get to all the oil fields. And we need to dominate quickly. That still wouldn't work. I think they're just gonna' fly the cargo planes in and unload 'em. Tanks, troops, everything. Right outside Baghdad. Maybe right at the airport.

Saddam has had plenty of time to prepare an exit strategy. Wonder what it is? Escape? Suicide? Mass suicide? The only thing that is really of concern is that I seriously doubt that we've prepared an exit strategy. We aren't even seriously considering that we could get hurt - badly.