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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (45495)	9/20/2002 4:14:07 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Yep, 180 degrees. He's saying the exact same thing Bush is saying - the Iraqis are playing tricks and they're already backing off the "unconditional" as I pointed out to you earlier. To quote: Powell, appearing before the House International Relations Committee, scoffed at Saddam's message and noted that it appeared to limit where inspectors might go. Powell was referring to Saddam's demands that the inspectors respect Iraq's "rights, sovereignty and security"-- which the Bush administration says is Iraqi code for keeping inspectors out of what Iraq calls "presidential" sites. "He is already backing away, he is stepping away from the 'without conditions' statement they made on Monday," Powell said. "He's not deceiving anybody. It's a ploy we have seen before." Many U.N. members, Powell said, want to take Iraq at its word and send inspectors back without any new resolution or new authority. "This is recipe for failure," he said., The "more reasonable" Powell is right on track - the "unconditional" statement was a delaying tactic Iraq has used repeatedly before and any attempt to fall for it by the international community would be a "recipe for failure." Pretty blunt stuff, Karen. Derek

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