First, you know I didn't write the article, right? I simply highlighted the parts I thought would be interesting to the thread.
And your point was?
The point was that these diplomats are turning themselves into agents of Saddam.
Now do you really believe that? Whether we like it or not, what they are trying to do is put Bush in his place.
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:
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.
I actually think he might end up agreeing to all of them. He's already agreed to 2 or 3 of them.
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.
You do understand that this mess was caused by Bush thinking that the rest of the world and the UN were not relevant to what he wanted to accomplish? Apparently, he really underestimated the reaction. Now he's made enemies where we should have friends. I don't remember a president acting so foolishly......probably surpassed only by Nixon and Watergate, and Clinton and Monica.
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