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UNITED NATIONS: This is why Saddam Hussein didn?t fight back -- he has friends in high places. Security Council members France, Russia and China have officially called for an end to economic sanctions on Iraq and the firing of UNSCOM head Richard Butler, and the replacement of his inspectors with something about as effective as a gaggle of traveling salesmen. Their motives are as transparent as ever -- France and Russia want oil deals, and China just hates meddlers -- but that won?t make this tide any easier to turn...
Just a month ago, Clinton ordered an attack on Iraq but called it off at the last minute when Hussein promised to cooperate with UNSCOM inspectors...
...Scott added that the bombings "will certainly serve notice to [Hussein] that there's...a price to be paid for playing games with the UNSCOM [U.N. Special Commission] inspectors...
...their jobs, this may mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection is now over. A more violent -- and less effective -- era of containing Saddam is now under...
...highly trained inspection teams that trooped back to Baghdad last week can bridle Saddam's more dangerous ambitions. But privately, the hope is starting to wilt. U.S. officials are concerned that the eight-year-old U.N. regime may have done almost all it can to uncover existing stockpiles. UNSCOM inspectors have already rid Iraq of many of its missiles, launchers and tons of chemical munitions and production equipment. They are now searching mainly for biological weapons--small, easily hidden stores of anthrax, botulinum and aflatoxin, along with growth medium to produce new supplies. U.S. inspectors have privately concluded that Saddam...