Why now? If not now, when?

Watched the Nightline discussion on the Iraq situation and it was a pretty even panel with 3 in favor of action now and 3 saying we should wait. Wish Claudia Rosett of WSJ was there to speak her mind. Below is an excerpt from her latest column:

Let's do the math. To get even a show of forward motion from Saddam, it has taken 17 failed U.N. resolutions, 12,000 pages of pointless documents from Baghdad, umpteen visits to Iraq by Mr. Blix, the concentrated attention for many months of the entire world, plus--and most important--the deployment to the Persian Gulf of six U.S. aircraft carrier groups and 250,000 troops.

And what have we got to show for it? Saddam as of yesterday had forked over one spare suspected biological bomb and bulldozed two dozen or so missiles he got caught lying about.

Folks, this arithmetic is not going our way. Perhaps if America doubles its troop strength in the gulf to half a million, Saddam will then render up a stray canister of nerve gas, or suddenly remember where he stashed that spare batch of anthrax.