Right on the heels of Bush's comments that the weapons inspections in Iraq have "not been encouraging" (Bush is trying to do with his tongue to the weapons inspections what Paul O'Neill did to the Brazilian economy with his), we find out that Saddam will give full accounting of all present weapons by Saturday, one day earlier than required by the U.N. resolution. Also, Kofi Annan is urging patience from Dubya.

TFM is adopting a wait-and-see policy in terms of kibbutzing the inspectors. My sense is that there will be enough compliance for Europe/Russia/etc to make the case to Bush not to start a war, perhaps more than that. Saddam is crazy but he isn't stupid, he knows both his rule and his life are on the line here.