War or not? Bet on it. Literally.
Over 4,000 people have bet about $250,000 at this online gambling site on whether the US will go to war or not according to this San Francisco Chronicle story. There are approximately 1,000 online gambling sites that are taking bets!
Thousands of armchair gamblers are logging onto Internet bookmakers, where they can place bets on the date and hour the United States will attack Iraq. At Costa Rica's www.betonsports.com, winning bets that the war starts next week would pay off 2-to-1; the week after, 1.5-to-1.