Saddameter

With France Like These

The odds of war.

Chance of Invasion
Today: 99 percent

U.S. and France lobby swing votes on Security Council. A leader of Pakistan’s ruling party says Pakistan will abstain. Britain implicitly offers to push back March 17 deadline in exchange for votes. New U.S. spin: We’ve gone to war justly without U.N. support before. Turkey continues to negotiate compensation for U.S. troop deployments.

Thursday: 99 percent