Word: triggered
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...they have some 25-year-old kid." Shortly after Rove learned that the polls were tightening in the Senate race in North Carolina, the Republican Senatorial Committee sent an additional $1.5 million to help Elizabeth Dole. "They had the resources ready, and they didn't hesitate to pull the trigger," says consultant Ed Gillespie, one of Rove's expert surrogates who handled that race...
...patient diplomacy, George W. Bush won the unanimous approval of the U.N. Security Council to force Iraq to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction or face "serious consequences." French and Russian support for the resolution came after American assurances that it would not be used as a trigger for an attack on Iraq. Although the text of the resolution does not explicitly mention military action, the intention to use force if breaches are discovered is unambiguous. The U.N. gave Saddam Hussein 30 days to come clean on his weapons program; it will assess his progress after weapons inspectors...
...Security Council has given Iraq a final chance to avoid war by committing to disarmament. That means complying with demands to declare its weapons programs and allow UN inspectors unfettered access to suspected weapons facilities. Failure to comply will almost certainly trigger a U.S.-led attack on Iraq. So how close are we to war? A timeline of the months ahead...
...France and Russia dropped their opposition to the U.S.-sponsored text once they were satisfied that the resolution is not simply a trigger-mechanism for invasion. And even Syria, against expectations, added its vote to the resolution, suggesting that Arab League member states who have opposed an attack on Iraq are signaling Saddam that Iraqi disarmament as the only way to avoid...
...were convinced to take the matter back to the UN as a means of securing international support and legitimacy for a military campaign. Based on the premise that Saddam would never voluntarily relinquish his weapons of mass destruction, the assumption was that a new inspection ultimatum would create a trigger mechanism for an internationally sanctioned war, on terms that would satisfy nervous Europeans, Arabs and even Americans...