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Sometimes it's striking how strength begets greater strength. One by one, George W. Bush is clearing away the obstacles to war, at home and overseas. His public campaign to make Saddam Hussein disarm or disappear is barely a month old, but already Bush has thrown war-averse Democrats on the defensive. He flew to New York City and smacked down the U.N. with his call to wake up or risk irrelevancy. And last week he unveiled his new national-security strategy, a long-range plan for the U.S. overseas, which argues that the strongest nation in the world...
...Diplomatic Tug-of-War While the U.S. congress debated a motion on war with Iraq, the U.S. and Britain agreed on a draft U.N. resolution that gives Iraq a week to list the prohibited weapons in its possession, to allow inspections and to agree to disarm. The draft threatens "use of all necessary means" if Saddam Hussein fails to comply. "The resolution, or resolutions, must be strong enough ... that they produce disarmament and not just inspections," said U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. That was the easy part. State Department official Marc Grossman visited France and Russia - veto-holding Security...
...does still have the same power as the U.S., Britain, France and China to veto UN Security Council resolutions. That's why President Bush on Thursday sent an envoy to Moscow in an effort to persuade President Vladimir Putin to back a tough new UN ultimatum to Iraq to disarm, or else. Russia has maintained that Saddam Hussein's recent offer to comply with new arms inspections means that no new resolutions are necessary. But Kremlin-watchers have long suggested this was a bargaining strategy, designed to win guarantees on Russian interests in a post-Saddam Iraq, and also...
...what can inspections actually accomplish? In the White House's view, they won't help disarm Iraq. Bush says only a regime change can eliminate the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, which means inspections are just a politically necessary warm-up for the main event. But the countries that forced Bush to try inspections first could see things very differently. They could well be pleased if the process somehow takes the air out of the American case for war. That means the argument Colin Powell won on that day back in August - that going...
...believed to be a code used for a terrorist who is about to attack. U.S. Ultimatum at the U.N. In a forceful speech at the United Nations, U.S. President George W. Bush told world leaders that Iraq "is a grave and gathering danger." Bush said the U.S. wanted to disarm Iraq of chemical and nuclear weapons by working through the U.N. Security Council, but he warned that war would be unavoidable if Iraq failed to comply "immediately" with U.N. resolutions. "Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding or will it become irrelevant?" asked Bush. He argued that...