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To: JohnM who wrote (42886)	9/9/2002 1:42:58 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Many at U.N. Seek Evidence for U.S. Case Against Iraq nytimes.com Apparently, you're not the only one who doesn't like it, John. The urgency of the need for action against Mr. Hussein is a matter dividing many nations from Washington. If Mr. Bush shows evidence that Iraq is working busily to build a nuclear weapon and is becoming an immediate danger, quite a few nations might consider supporting military action against him. But many countries are concerned that the Bush administration wants to drag them into a first strike against Baghdad on the vaguer ground that Mr. Hussein might become a nuclear threat some time in the future. That would be a major revision of a doctrine of pre-emptive first strike that is familiar in diplomacy, experts say. If the administration is proposing "prevention of a remote threat, rather than an imminent threat, this is new," said Joseph S. Nye Jr., the dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a former assistant secretary of defense. Diplomats fear that if the administration fails to demonstrate that the weapons threat from Iraq is immediate, it may provide a justification for countries locked in all kinds of prickly disputes to attack their adversaries. They note that Mr. Hussein himself might seize on the administration's argument for attacking him to justify a pre-emptive strike in self-defense against the United States or a third country.