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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (51884)10/14/2002 7:52:38 AM
From: gamesmistress  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
...Disdain for the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) is high in the Pentagon. Senior officials routinely dismiss UNMOVIC chief Hans Blix, who has objected to this and several other provisions in the resolution, as living in a fantasyland where a few dozen inspectors can counter Iraq's efforts to hide chemical and biological weaponry.

Blix's concern, which was echoed in an interview with Rolf Ekeus, the first head of the U.N. inspection team in Iraq, is that if the United States and other permanent council members put their own people on inspection teams, the U.N. team leader would lose control of the operation. "Suppose the U.S. member wants to go behind one door in a building and the French member doesn't, what happens?" Ekeus said in a recent interview. "That plan is unworkable."

Jeez louise, sounds like the Olympic figure skating judges..:-/ Where are the *objective* criteria?
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