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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (279711)	7/23/2002 6:54:38 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

you forgot other options d. forcefully, and conventionally, remove him from power and dismantle the site. e. continue to apply diplomatic and economic pressure to force him to readmit inspectors and dismantle the site. the precedent set by using nukes on saddam would be disastrous in respect to the Pakistan/India conflict, the N/S Korea/China situation, the Middle East in general to name a few.

To: Ish who wrote (279711)	7/23/2002 6:54:49 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

C is the correct answer for those who want civilisation to continue.

To: Ish who wrote (279711)	9/16/2002 8:51:57 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

A tentative appearance has been made by one of the missing hypothetical answers from your "hypothetical question. Saddam has a lab 300' underground. It has a GMO virus that if released would kill 80% of the Earth's population. Now you can - A. Ignore it. B. Hit it with conventional weapons and risk spreading it. C. Nuke it and remove it and it's creators from the Earth." (The choices you didn't recognize: d. forcefully, and conventionally, remove him from power and dismantle the site. e. continue to apply diplomatic and economic pressure to force him to readmit inspectors and dismantle the site.) (The reason your frivolous choice "C" cannot be an option: the precedent set by using nukes on saddam would be disastrous in respect to the Pakistan/India conflict, the N/S Korea/China situation, the Middle East in general to name a few.) Iraq says it will allow U.N. weapons inspectors to immediately return to the country without conditions, but a senior U.S. official discounted the announcement, saying "we do not take what Saddam says at face value." Word that Iraq would allow inspections to resume came Monday in a letter delivered to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri delivered the letter in a meeting with Annan and the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa. "I can confirm to you that I have received a letter from the Iraqi authorities conveying its decision to allow the return of inspectors without conditions to continue their work," Annan said. Annan will pass the letter on to the president of the 15-member U.N. Security Council Monday evening, and top diplomats are to study it overnight. The timing of the Iraqi letter coincided with a major push by the Bush administration to draft tougher U.N. resolutions ordering weapons inspectors back into Iraq on a tight deadline and threatening the use of military force if Iraq does not comply. Annan said President Bush's speech last Thursday to the U.N. General Assembly helped "galvanize" the international community in getting Iraq to comply with U.N. resolutions. "A lot has happened in this building since Thursday," Annan said in announcing the news. But the official, who is involved in the deliberations over Iraq, expressed skepticism: "We will work with the United Nations and specifically the Security Council on what Iraq will be required to accept," said the official. "We do not take what Saddam says at face value to begin with. And there will be no negotiating. The U.N. will act to lay out the requirements, or we will, but he gets no input." Secretary of State Colin Powell has been meeting with U.N. Security Council members in hopes of building a consensus to support one or more resolutions "with teeth." However the actual drafting has yet to begin -- some diplomats tell CNN they don't expect pens to be put to paper until later this week -- with a final draft ready by month's end.