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...Following Bush’s speech, world opinion had slowly begun turning back in America's favor, to the point where Saudi Arabia had said that we could use their bases to launch military attacks and several European nations had voiced their support for future military intervention. Following Iraq??s release of this letter, some of those countries have jumped right back on the fence—which is exactly where Saddam wants them...
Nobody should be fooled. Iraq??s definition of “unconditional” is not at all what either the U.S. or the U.N. inspectors mean. In fact, Monday’s letter already contained a caveat: U.N. inspectors should respect the “sovereignty” of Iraqi lands, which means that once again Hussein, Aziz, et al will try to keep them out of palaces, bunkers and the like. When that happens and the U.S. tries to go back to the U.N. and ask for a Security Council resolution to use force, it will...
Bush is correct in not being content to watch the entire play when he knows what is going to happen in the last act. No matter what any so-called expert says about Iraq??s weapons of mass destruction, no outsider has been able to collect any evidence to verify their assertions since 1998. In addition to thumbing his nose at almost every U.N. resolution since 1991, which ought to anger our European allies, and his efforts over the last 20 years to build nuclear weapons and support worldwide terror, Hussein has amassed a brainwashed following in Iraq...
...badly did Bush lose in his U.N. gamble? Assuming weapons inspectors return to Iraq??and the United States would be hard pressed not to at least give them a chance—it could be as long as eight months before the inspectors made preliminary conclusions, according to a report in the Washington Post. Already Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has tried to salvage the failure by calling on Congress to give the go-ahead for war regardless of any U.N. resolutions. Without immediate action, Bush will lose the use of the Iraqi invasion as a political...
...much as the White House would like to belittle the significance of the inspections and call Iraq??s agreement yet another empty assurance, the turn of events is far more promising than any blank check resolution giving the go-ahead to his military. An invasion today would lead to massive casualties among the already-suffering Iraqi people, even worse than the appalling civilian deaths in Afghanistan. Furthermore, an invasion today would handicap this administration in fulfilling its duties in the war on terrorism still being waged worldwide. Afghanistan is far from rebuilt, its government is still weak...