Blix, as he should, is saying he wants to proceed and work this out as Iraq is "showing signs of greater cooperation" But read what i have put in Bold here--the handwriting is written in super-glo orange on a black wall " The U.S. will say NO! and proceed to war"
<<11:53AM 2/9/2003 Blix says sees start of closer Iraq-UN cooperation by Allen Wan
After two days of talks in Baghdad in a last-ditch effort to avert a possible war, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said he hoped he had "seen a beginning" of closer cooperation by Iraqi with the U.N. inspection program. He also said he believed further U.N. inspections were preferable to a quick U.S.-led military strike. Blix also said he would like to see more inspections rather than "some other solution." Blix also said he had received assurances that Iraq would expand a commission to search for weapons and weapons programs and "relevant documents nationwide." The question now is whether it's a case of too little, too late as the U.N. Security Council prepares to meet Feb. 14 to hear Blix's report. On Sunday, Secretary of State Colin Powell told NBC's Meet the Press that a reported French-German proposal to increase the number of U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq was "a diversion, not a solution" to disarming Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. U.S. officials also criticized a French-German proposal to send U.N. peacekeepers to disarm Iraq, calling it an ineffective ploy to delay military action. According to the report in Der Spiegel, the plan would call for sending reconnaissance flights, deploying thousands of U.N. soldiers and tripling the number of weapons inspectors. ( edit-but as logical as it sounds the U.S. is shouting NO!, period, done over finished. The ONLY event to stop this war is if Iraq suddenly just plain says o.k. here are our WMDs come and supervise their destruction and here are the Al Queda in the country we give them to you. That's the only thing that will stop this,plus a dead or going into exile Saddam--max) The vigorous U.N. presence would sideline Saddam, allowing subordinates like Tariq Aziz to" gain more influence" without directly toppling the Iraqi leader, the Associated Press quoted the magazine as saying.>> The National Guard of Maine has just been called up , the Guard was told to just get things together because we want you NOW, so i assume this National Guard call up is happening nationwide; the wheels to war are turning fast now. Max |
