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...surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. I don’t see how they could have come to such an attitude if they had, at any time, studied the [inspectors??] reports.” The president is trying to pass off this discrepancy between reality and his prewar claims as a failure of the intelligence community. (The commission he recently appointed has been charged to investigate this so-called intelligence failure.) In doing so, he has deflected attention...
...gesture to garner political points by convincing the naive that he was intent on multilateralism. It was a ploy made all the more transparent by Bush’s obstinacy to granting even trifling concessions over inspection timing and oil-rights as well as his vocal disregard for the inspectors?? reports...
...practically become a foregone conclusion, but the inspectors?? recent discovery of empty warheads designed for carrying chemical weapons certainly does not constitute a “smoking gun.” The weapons may have been omitted in Iraq’s 12,000-page declaration Dec. 8, but this is not the material breach the United States needs to convince the world that war is justified. If the war is to be fought with an international mandate, the U.S. must not be overly hasty to start...
...material breach.” Per U.N. Resolution 1441 itself, the mere existence of any undeclared “delivery systems” for illegal weapons necessarily constitutes a violation of the resolution. Thus, it is fundamentally irrelevant whether the United States chooses to wait for the inspectors?? full report, since we already have enough evidence of Iraqi malfeasance to justify military action...
...would thus benefit from Hussein retaining power. Indeed, soon after last Friday’s disarmament resolution was approved, Russian, French and Chinese diplomats issued a joint statement claiming that it did not automatically permit the use of force should Hussein breach its terms or choose to delay the inspectors?? access. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov was quick to maintain, “We have excluded from the resolution material that is unacceptable to Russia,” adding that “it does not include the automatic use of force?...