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...first opportunity to challenge his recent statements on Iraq. General Powell is slated to appear before the House Foreign Relations Committee to discuss his budget, offering some GOP hard-liners an opportunity to air their concerns about his proposal to relax most sanctions on Iraq while tightening the arms embargo. Powell touted the policy during his tour of Middle Eastern capitals two weeks ago, prompting some alarm among conservatives over the appearance of going soft on Saddam. Even within the Bush administration, there is considerable support for a more aggressive policy aimed at overthrowing the dictator, primarily by funneling support...
...While he can ritually intone the mantra of taking steps to change the regime in Baghdad, he also has to be concerned that this is a policy option that causes concern among the Arab states on whom Washington must rely to enforce the arms embargo. Powell may envisage a policy of long-term containment of Saddam, but that's not going to sound particularly appealing to the Capitol Hill hawks who want to finish what the Gulf War began. Still, Powell may have an overwhelming advantage over his critics: Like the Gulf War itself, the policy of long-term containment...
...plainly, Rich appears to have purchased his presidential pardon. Even more disturbing, he bought his freedom with money made betraying our country. As outraged Representative Chris Cox (R-Calif.) said on the house floor, "Mr. Rich traded with Libya when we had the embargo, he traded with Iran when we had U.S. hostages being held captive, and he traded with Iraq during the 12 years when we had our conflict." The ultimate backscratcher set free the ultimate traitor...
...make the reintroduction of inspectors the top priority. Loosening the current sanctions allows the administration to both address a humanitarian crisis and regain credibility with France, Russia and some of the Gulf states. By offering to drop the general sanctions in return for weapons inspections, keeping only an arms embargo in place, the U.S. should be able to reunite our allies by offering Iraq a fair deal...
...Gulf War isn't over. Since the mother of all battles ended in apparent success 10 years ago this month, the U.S. has been engaged in protracted low-intensity combat to bring the conflict to final victory. Washington has unloosed a raft of modern weapons--economic sanctions, an arms embargo, weapons inspections, money for opposition groups, no-fly zones and the occasional bombing--to unseat Saddam Hussein. To no avail. The vexing enemy left in position in 1991 by the first President Bush has managed ever since to keep the Iraqi threat alive...