Whatever doubts others, including some of America's close allies, may still have about the wisdom of attempting to strip Saddam Hussein of his weapons of mass destruction by force, few can doubt that for Iraq the "days of reckoning" are now few. George Bush, who used the phrase in his state-of-the-union address on Tuesday, has not wavered in his determination to see the job done, with or without support from the United Nations Security Council. And now the "logic of war"―a gathering presumption of and momentum for action―is also starting to build up outside the Bush administration. So too, however, is the list of potential casualties if the intense Iraq diplomacy of recent months goes awry.
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