Word: breachã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...from perpetrating “hostile acts” against U.N. personnel or member states who are acting to “uphold any Council resolution.” It has not taken long for Iraq to breach the resolution, but this can hardly be described as a material breach??and it is certainly not enough justification for a war against Iraq. Though the White House has promised to “assess and review” whether these attacks violate its zero tolerance policy, it can only come to the conclusion that this violation is not worth...
...sites. This is the only way that arms inspections will work. But by the same token, the U.S. should not be the one to short-circuit the process by prematurely starting a war. Since other nations like France and Russia have a higher standard for “material breach??—the phrase in the resolution that defines when the U.N. will authorize war against Iraq—President Bush must wait until there is no question Hussein has violated the resolution...
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