Martin Palous is the Czech ambassador to the United States, and he makes a good case for why we need to go to Iraq. Sounds like the US may be at war within a week or two.

All Too Familiar With Dictators (washingtonpost.com) is at stake now is the authority of the United Nations. We are convinced that the international community should not only "contain" in this case but also act resolutely and in a timely manner. It needs to be said here: We are convinced multilateralists. We strongly believe that the United Nations is the right place to deal with this issue, and we hope that it will not be necessary to use force. But if it is necessary, the next step of disarming