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...logic. Few dispute Bush's characterization of Saddam as a brutal dictator who has attacked his neighbors, produced weapons of mass destruction and employed chemical ones. He has broken international law, mocked treaty commitments and flouted the U.N. The global community defeated him in war and ordered him to disarm, only to be defied for more than a decade. He has never, in his 24-year dictatorship, shown the least willingness to reform, even when his people nearly starved under the brunt of international sanctions. "In my judgment," said Bush last week, "you don't hope that therapy will somehow...
...administration officials insist that Security Council Resolution 1441 gives them the right to take military action without seeking specific authorization. But British Prime Minister Tony Blair insists he has U.S. backing for his country's efforts to seek a Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq, and the White House has made clear that it would support efforts to procure such a resolution - as long as the outcome was assured and the process didn't delay U.S. military plans. The quest for UN backing for military action puts the spotlight back onto chief weapons inspectors Hans...
...Council on Valentine's Day - Powell, after all, speaks as a representative of Saddam Hussein's most avowed and implacable enemy; Blix is the Council's own objective investigator. If Powell sets out a case, based in considerable part on unnamed sources, that Iraq is refusing to disarm, other Council members insist that his allegations be investigated by inspectors. But if the inspectors themselves, after 78 days back on the job, echo Powell's charges, the Council has no option but to apply the "serious consequences" cited in Resolution 1441 as the price for non-compliance...
...That's why Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair has good reason for his confidence that President Bush would ultimately win Security Council approval of a resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq. The alternative, for the Security Council naysayers, is to be dispatched into geopolitical oblivion by Pax Americana. And they, too, have interests to protect in any regime-change in Iraq. Even if they continue to disagree with Washington on the wisdom and prudence of going to war in Iraq, a UN resolution authorizing force on the basis of Saddam's refusal to meet his disarmament...
...tour of mostly business audiences in the Midwest and on the West Coast in December. "They want a smoking gun. It doesn't make a difference when I point out that we have a smoking forest, that it's clear Saddam has these weapons and doesn't want to disarm...