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...when the British government will issue a detailed dossier about Saddam's secret weapons programs. A draft is now circulating in Whitehall. There is internal debate about how much secret intelligence to divulge, but the document will emphasize how persistently Saddam has tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction (wmds), nuclear bombs in particular. "It's very good," says one official who has seen...
...better be. It will be a daunting task to shift public opinion, in Britain and elsewhere, to agree that Saddam's pursuit of wmds justifies war in the near future. After all, ask critics, hasn't he been seeking them for two decades? Why should we fight now? Is it just a desire by George Bush to finish what his daddy failed to, and by Blair to bear any burden necessary to snuggle with Uncle Sam? If Saddam does get these weapons, won't he be deterred from using them by fear of retaliation that would annihilate his country? Officials...
...does Blair propose to rouse them from their sleepwalking? First, he will train his rhetorical cannon on Iraq's persistence as a lawbreaker. According to London, Baghdad is already in violation of at least 23 U.N. Security Council resolutions, including nine on WMDs. Blair will also focus on how big and long-standing Iraq's secret WMD program has been. European officials say Saddam has biological and chemical warheads that could be placed on missiles within weeks, if they're not ready now. More ominously, he has been boosting nuclear procurement, and has mastered the 150-km missiles...