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...course the Bush administration could still decide to attack Iraq at a moment's notice, regardless of the timetable of UN Security Council discussions. U.S. military planners will soon have some 200,000 troops in the Gulf; Washington has secured basing rights in some key neighboring states such as Turkey; and administration officials insist that Security Council Resolution 1441 gives them the right to take military action without seeking specific authorization. But British Prime Minister Tony Blair insists he has U.S. backing for his country's efforts to seek a Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm...
...that the Iraqis allow private interviews with scientists, allow surveillance flights by U2 spy-planes operated by the inspectors, and pass legislation in the Iraqi parliament outlawing weapons of mass destruction. Iraq this week allowed a scientist to be interviewed with no government minder present, and is believed by UN officials to be ready to concede on the other two points. But the inspectors plan to raise the bar a lot higher, warning that "unless there is a drastic change on the part of Iraq" and its willingness to cooperate on the substance of disarmament, the February 14 report back...
...Lovers of ethnic and national stereotypes were disappointed by last Saturday’s Canada Club bash, which featured a distinctly un-Canadian booze shortage. “They ran out of Labatt’s at like 11:15,” complained British Columbia native Gordon A. Braithwaite ’03. In a tragedy that has become all too common for Canadians living at home and abroad, Braithwaite was then eaten by a polar bear?...
...Differences over whether Saddam represents a serious threat may not be the determining factor in shaping the outcome of the UN process. Blix has already told the Security Council that Iraq's cooperation with UN teams has fallen short of compliance with Resolution 1441, and Powell's objective on Wednesday was to make the case that Iraqi non-compliance is the product not of omission but of active deceit that undermines the very purpose of further inspections. The immediate response by war-skeptical Security Council members such as France, Russia, China and Germany was to urge further - and expanded - inspections...
...alternative, for the Security Council naysayers, is to be dispatched into geopolitical oblivion by Pax Americana. And they, too, have interests to protect in any regime-change in Iraq. Even if they continue to disagree with Washington on the wisdom and prudence of going to war in Iraq, a UN resolution authorizing force on the basis of Saddam's refusal to meet his disarmament obligations would also provide political cover for many of the European and Arab states to cooperate with an invasion deeply unpopular among their citizens...