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...allied security. When Bush first raised the issue at the UN Security Council last Fall, he did so in the form of a challenge to the international body - follow us to war, or render yourselves irrelevant. And his administration underlined the point by deploying an invasion armada and planning for a U.S.-administered post-Saddam Iraq. The two-track policy of using the UN process as a means to build diplomatic support for a war already in the making may have helped build domestic backing for an invasion - and chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has affirmed that the military buildup...
...fact that the U.S. and Britain have begun assembling a massive invasion armada capable of delivering the knockout blow to Saddam Hussein's regime has, of course, raised pressure on Washington to bring the inspection process to a speedy conclusion and move quickly...
...deployment timetable: The invasion armada will be at full-strength only sometime in March The coalition: The U.S. and Britain remain relatively isolated in committing to war right now, and even Britain is urging that the inspectors be given more time and that the U.S. at least seek a Security Council resolution authorizing war - over 80 percent of Britons oppose participation in a war without UN authorization The evidence: Weakening domestic support for war, and the resistance of the European allies to endorse action right now, is based in part on the failure of the Bush Administration thus...
...march on Baghdad without UN authorization. Blair, for his part, will likely be trying to persuade Bush against such a course, in the belief that inspections assisted by Western intelligence are certain to, sooner or later, make an incontrovertible case for war. But the deployment of a massive invasion armada that will near completion in the coming weeks may set distinct limits on how much longer President Bush is prepared to indulge the inspection process...
...Bush war party - Secretary of State Colin Powell and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - are warning that January 27 should not, in fact, be regarded as a definitive deadline at all. Bush Administration hawks may have other ideas as the U.S. moves rapidly to assemble an invasion armada that would be ready to do its job by mid-February...