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...that states like Iraq do not possess weapons of mass destruction. But the debate at the Security Council last week demonstrated a gulf in conceptions of how that world might best be built. For the Americans, the British and their supporters, the reports by the U.N. weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed that Iraq had still not complied with U.N. resolutions that it disarm. "We cannot allow this process to be endlessly strung out," said Secretary of State Colin Powell. Most members of the Council, however, remain convinced that the inspectors are the best way to defang Saddam...
...than as an artillery weapon. As Britain, Spain and the U.S. square off against France, Germany and Russia in a crucial Security Council debate over Iraqi disarmament, UN weapons inspectors have demanded that Iraq destroy its entire arsenal of the offending missile by March 1. Chief inspector Dr. Hans Blix has declined to negotiate with Baghdad over that demand - leaving no doubt that failure to comply would lead him to report to the Security Council that Iraq has failed a benchmark disarmament test. And although Saddam hinted at a defiant response in a TV interview with CBS, Monday, his handling...
...medium-range missile designed to carry a conventional explosive warhead. But where the missile falls foul of the inspection regime is that its range exceeds the 93-mile limit set by the UN in 1991. (A number of technical specifications also exceed UN limits in ways that prompt Blix's team to suspect it may simply be version 2.0 of a planned long-range Iraqi missile.) The fact that the extent of the al-Samoud 2's infraction is reportedly no more than about 30 miles may indeed give it little significance to Iraq's current strategic capability...
These protests came at a critical time, the day after Dr. Hans Blix, Executive Chairman of the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission reported to the U.N. that he needed more time for inspections, which he said were going well. An armed Iraq poses a threat to U.S. national security, and forcibly disarming Iraq may become necessary, but without the backing of the U.N.—and without giving inspections a fair chance to deter and contain the threat of Iraqi arms under Saddam Hussein’s control—it would be misguided and counterproductive...
...several sources, French Foreign Minister de Villepin was openly agitated--"shrill," said one observer--at the meetings in New York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after his speech.) But if Blix returns from Baghdad with a report damning Saddam, he will give the French a ladder to humbly climb down, the U.S. will have its resolution, and Saddam will have a few days to figure out whether to save his hide in exile or face the might of American armed forces...