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Even France, which has threatened to veto a second U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq, will eventually reconsider, Emmott said...
...Euro-muscle by tabling a U.S. request for nato military assistance. In advance of this week's scheduled report on weapons inspections to the U.N. Security Council, powerful members were laying down markers for a contentious debate on whether and when to authorize a fight. France hinted at a veto. President Vladimir Putin called Bush to warn that Russia likewise is not ready to say "go," and China let it be known that it was "extremely close" to the French position. Washington believes it can steamroller its way through with tough diplomacy--or, if necessary, go in with little help...
...seeking that blessing will set off a fierce dogfight. France, which long demanded a second resolution, now says it might veto any attempt to pass one so soon. Germany, while it has no veto, takes over the chairmanship of the Council in February, and the government of Gerhard Schroder is committed to standing against war. His coalition partners in the Green Party can cause serious trouble for Schroder's thin majority if he bows to U.S. pressure. "We committed ourselves to say no," says Christian Strobele, a stalwart Green pacifist who nearly brought down the government when Schroder sent troops...
Bush has also issued avowals that he will veto appropriations bills when the Senate has threatened to repeal existing restrictions on abortions. As recently as last Friday, he warned Congress that if a catchall spending bill under consideration omits even one existing curtailment of federal funds for abortion, his advisers would recommend a veto. "It's a mistake to underrate his focus," says Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, an abortion-rights advocate who has found herself on the losing side of the abortion wars. "They are persistent, and they are insistent...
...much time do we need to see clearly that he's not disarming?" Bush said on Tuesday. The European skeptics, however, have not yet been convinced that Iraq is, in fact, illegally armed to the extent that Blair and Bush claim. And with France and Russia wielding Security Council veto power and Germany, in the chair for February, controlling the council's agenda, the Bush administration will struggle to win UN backing for military action in the coming weeks...