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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: Ed Huang who wrote (7283)2/11/2003 11:20:03 AM
From: Ed Huang  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
Clinton Recommends U.S. Patience on Iraq
Tue February 11, 2003 08:37 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said in an interview broadcast on Tuesday the United States should exercise patience in its standoff with Iraq to help build allied support for a potential strike.
Clinton told NBC's Today Show he did not believe war in Iraq was inevitable so long as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein opts to disarm.

While stressing a second U.N. resolution was not strictly necessary, the former president said the United States ought to take pains to repair a growing rift with allies Germany, France and Russia over the need for war.

"What I hope will happen is that we will let the process play out enough to maximize our international support. I would really like to see the whole U.N. with us, and I think there is a chance they will be," he said in the taped interview.

"I think they will come around, if they believe that we gave the whole inspection and U.N. process a fair chance. ... We need to look like we're determined but not eager to go to war."

Clinton called Secretary of State Colin Powell's Feb. 5 presentation to the United Nations "quite effective, as he always is," and praised the Bush administration for making use of the international body.

"I think the patience that has been shown so far is good," he said.
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