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...weathertainers, the Weather Channel's meteorologists--the men in car-salesman suits, the women in sensible sweaters--avoid cheerleading and hype; they don't make corny puns or brag about their gastric-bypass surgery. Even the plain logo looks like something from the '50s. So there's something un--Weather Channel--ly about the flashy Storm Stories, whose ads promise "The power! The fury! The drama!" amid lightning and thunderclaps...
Antiwar activists like to accuse the Bush Administration of waging a "war without end," but in the case of Iraq the more appropriate phrase might be "war without a beginning." Thursday's report to the UN Security Council by the officials leading arms inspection efforts in Iraq gave the strongest indication yet that the inspection process won't yield a definitive judgment on whether the country is conducting prohibited weapons programs by the January 27 deadline. The most dovish voices in the Bush war party - Secretary of State Colin Powell and Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair - are warning that...
...While Baghdad had not impeded the inspectors' activities, Blix and Al-Baradei demanded more "pro-active" cooperation from Iraq in establishing Iraqi compliance with UN disarmament demands. Iraq so far has done the minimum necessary to avoid being declared in violation of Resolution 1441 by the Security Council - but no more. But the conclusion from Blix and El Baradei was that they needed more time to thoroughly investigate the charges against Iraq. Possibly a lot more time...
...Saddam's weapons programs. Still, conducting such interviews may be far from easy, since they rely on the consent of the individual Iraqi scientist, which may not be forthcoming. In short, nobody expects the inspectors have reached anything close to a conclusion by the January 27 deadline mandated in UN Security Council Resolution 1441. That could exacerbate rifts in the Bush administration, and with its closest ally, over whether, when and how to proceed...
...Absent any hard evidence of prohibited weapons programs being turned up by the inspectors in the next 20 days, or a counterintuitive about-face by Iraq on cooperating with inspectors, the January 27 report is unlikely to lead to see UN support for an invasion. Even though Britain has begun moving its troops into position around Iraq in preparation for an invasion, Blair is reportedly emphasizing the importance of establishing proof of Iraq's prohibited weapons programs before launching a war. And that will likely reinforce those voices in the administration who want to give the inspectors all the time...