David, at 2.10 am 3/20/2003 I am checking my email to find your posting.. which list approriate or not.. touched me... the deadline has passed and for weeks no one listened... to no protest to no official to no inspector... nada... I am angry, fearful, outraged about this.... pro peace - certainly not a friend of Saddam... and his philantropists of earlier years... Reagan and Bush 1..... so yes the INternet has helped to spread the word, get people on the street... but did it really help to prevent the war .. or to rather blame it on them afterwards... I am not sure... we are certainly not anymore in the realm of the unknown.. but what did we win... sorry for the fatalism here... when the first shot will be fired... collegues of mine will be getting a phone call to get their butts in gear to rush to the newsroom to cover the whole thing...online... as if somebody cares in Germany at this time of the day... I may be covering for them tommorrow... despite a week off..... so that is the Internet as well.... seem to have lost my clue here... anyway... I am with David, but sceptical if the INterent really does make a change.. or only for us... that we fell better... disillusioned... nilz