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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (164207)3/14/2003 1:13:26 AM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 1574559
 
Ted,

And your point was?

The point was that these diplomats are turning themselves into agents of Saddam.

This is the part that you highlighted (very observant of you, BTW):
Diplomats thought the list of British conditions would be next to impossible for Saddam to accept without fatally weakening the basis of his power. They included demands that:

-- Iraq should allow 30 of its scientists to be interviewed outside the country with their families in tow;

-- surrender stocks of anthrax and other biological and chemical agents or produce documents to demonstrate what happened to them;

-- destroy banned missiles;

-- account for unmanned aerial vehicles;

-- promise to hand over all mobile bio-production laboratories for destruction.

But the humiliating demand for a televised "mea culpa" alone is likely to be too much for Saddam, prompting antiwar members of Blair's Labor Party to ask if his wish-list was little short of a declaration of war.

Doesn't this say it all? A total success of the "inspection process" would be if the above conditions were met, which is, if you take the French and other weenies there at their word is what they want.

But, they think that if the conditions were met, Saddam would be so embarrassed that he would lose power. Therefore, deciding between inspection failure and Saddam in power, or inspection success and Saddam possibly losing power, they chose inspection failure.

BTW, I think this is the best summary of where things stand.

Joe
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