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...hard enough to organize a pre-emptive war with midterm elections looming and the stock market swooning and close allies refusing to participate. So the first-strike hard-liners in the Bush Administration must have found it hard to swallow when Secretary of State Colin Powell, speaking on a video conference call with the vacationing President in Texas last month, argued for the need to go through the United Nations before marching on Baghdad. But Powell pitched it cleverly, says a senior State Department official, in a way that showed "how it would work without limiting the President's options...
Maybe it will strike him after making a sack—one just as dizzying as his hit on Penn’s Gavin Hoffman last year and just as sudden an intrusion as the ailment itself...
...records of many of our so-called allies throughout the world. Furthermore, little is now known about the status of Hussein’s chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs. And although the world cannot stand by idly while the regime acquires and develops these weapons, a preemptive, unilateral strike would set an undesirable precedent. Our recent ally Pakistan—which also developed its own nuclear weapons, defying international pressure—could use the same principle of preemption to wage war on India. China could act likewise against Taiwan...
...Baghdad's weapons. This follows Monday's offer by Iraq to allow new UN weapons inspections that has once again split the veto-wielding permanent members of the UN security council - pitting the U.S. and Britain against France, Russia and China - and made UN authorization of a U.S. military strike unlikely any time soon...
...Bush administration has dismissed Saddam's offer as a ploy designed to avoid a military strike rather than a signal of penitence and resolve to become a global citizen in good standing. Saddam's track record certainly supports Washington's skepticism, but most of the Europeans and the Arabs fear the consequences of a U.S.-Iraq more than they fear Saddam's regime, and they'll insist on taking Iraq's offer as an opportunity to address Iraq's weapons programs through renewed inspections. After all, they don't share the U.S. policy of regime-change, and appear to ready...