Mr Bush and his officials again stressed that any state harbouringterrorists would face what Vice-President Dick Cheney called the "full wrath" of American military might.
But the army's diffidence is increasingly being taken as evidence that, despite Mr Musharraf's protestations to the contrary, Pakistan never abandoned its policy of harbouringterrorists at home and sponsoring them abroad.
Well I think what we need to do now is look at a stage by stage process with all of these countries - not just Iraq there are other countries too that have been harbouringterrorists - and have put themselves beyond the rule of law.