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...General Tommy Franks. And refusing to destroy them will almost certainly bring an invasion within weeks. Saddam's conduct until now suggests that he is well aware that his best weapons against the U.S. military are political and diplomatic. Every time he has been presented with an "or-else" ultimatum in this particular crisis, Saddam has capitulated so as to avoid giving the U.S. a pretext to launch an attack. Despite his defiant tone on CBS, reports out of Baghdad this week quoted Iraqi officials as hinting that Saddam may be planning to sacrifice the al-Samoud 2 to slow...
...achieve any foreign policy objectives multilaterally due to the inconsistency of his administration—at once calling for both talks and military action even as troops line up along the border. It is difficult for the international community to take his petitions to negotiate as anything but an ultimatum to legitimate his actions for the benefit...
...continue into next month. The U.S and Britain are currently working on a new resolution to presented to the Security Council, possibly later this week. But reports indicate that this resolution will stop short of authorizing military action, instead repeating the threat of "serious consequences" and possibly issue an ultimatum to Baghdad to meet specific demands in a prescribed time-frame. The diplomatic going may be tougher than ever, however, with last weekend's antiwar demonstrations that drew some 6 million people into the streets of Europe stiffening the spine of the war-wary Security Council members...
...misusing its standing as the world's greatest military power? With our arsenal, we are in a position to issue a worldwide ultimatum: any use of weapons of mass destruction by a country would mean an immediate response by the U.S. that would result in complete destruction of that country. Why wouldn't this tactic work? I doubt that Iraq or North Korea or any other nation would choose a suicidal approach. The fact that this was the situation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. throughout the cold war might illustrate the idea's workability. ALEX G. COREY Weeki Wachee...
...President Bush's consultations with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David on Friday. If Powell's evidence manages to shift the dynamic at the Security Council, they could push to invoke the "serious consequences" warned of in Resolution 1441. That could involve some form of final ultimatum to Baghdad, the time-frame of which would be measured in days or weeks rather than months. And that might well set the stage for the UN-sanctioned military action that the administration has sought all along...