If UNMOVIC were to compromise on either of these, we might endupwith Iraq begin declared free of WMD, when if fact all that would be certain is that UNMOVIC could not find any evidence of WMD.
While it is within the power of the Republican leadership to to avoid the sequester through compromise and still endupwith a plan that will begin to beat down the deficit without destroying the economic recovery, maybe the nation will, in the long run, benefit more from allowing the sequester to happen as the means to return sanity to our political process.