[andyfox]

"what is the cost if you are right and the pro war advocates are wrong?"

Seems to me a preemptive war resulting in the deaths of thousands of Iraqi and American lives, and the possibility of the United States using tactical nuclear weapons in such a war, as is being considered by the administration, together with the possibility of a retalatory terrorist attack on the United States, as Saddam's son has threatened, would be a pretty big price to pay for being wrong.