Pentagon warns of bloody war

The Pentagon is now warning the public of the "possibility of a drawn-out, bloody war with Iraq."

"We still do not know how US forces will be received [during an invasion]," one senior official told the New York Times. "Will it be cheers, jeers or shots? And the fact is, we won't know until we get there."

Valis of Liberty Think is confused by this proclamation. "Perhaps one of our chickenhawk cheerleaders can put down the pom-poms for a second and explain this to me," he writes. "I thought that everybody (including his government) hated Saddam and can't wait for his removal. What happened to people stepping over their dead family members and rushing to the window to proudly display their American flag?"