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To: kumar who wrote (44609)	9/16/2002 11:25:09 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I guess the discussion is moot, now that he has accepted unconditional inspections! I really dont think that any of these discussions are going to be moot....they are just going to be extended. Bush is going to need to use the momentum created by his speech last week to extract a resolution out of both the UN and Congress that authorizes force if inspections fail. If he doesnt the same thing will happen next year that happened in '98.....Hussein will throw the inspectors out after a couple of months. The current consensus will have faded and the political/diplomatic work would have to be done again. Hopefully, the authorizations wont be needed....but after looking over the various quotes from the UN/Congress in '98, it would be naive to think that Hussein will really allow unconditional inspections. He promised this before and got away without complying. OTOH....perhaps he will understand that he faces a different president this time. Slacker

To: kumar who wrote (44609)	9/16/2002 11:25:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I guess the discussion is moot, now that he has accepted unconditional inspections! Of the five steps for peace outlined in Bush's speech to the UN, accepting inspectors didn't even make it to step one, which was disarming from WMDs.

To: kumar who wrote (44609)	9/17/2002 7:22:38 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I guess the discussion is moot, now that he has accepted unconditional inspections! He's agreed to that before, but reneged. Hell, he agreed to inspections last year, but changed his mind again. So I am not in a partying mood about it just yet. The biggest first question is, does he expect to go back to the way it was before, where the inspectors would roll up to a place and be kept outside while they could see things being carried out the back, loaded into trucks, and taken away before they could go inside? Because that dog won't hunt. <digression>("That dog won't hunt" is a Southernism for that won't work, that is not acceptable. I get a kick out of reading Europeans trying to understand Bush's Southernisms. Apparently a lot of Yankees don't get them, either, like when Bush said Saddam was stiffing the world. In England, apparently this translates as being sexually aroused. I use a lot of Southernisms, myself. Even after 22 years of marriage, sometimes my own husband, a Yankee, will ask me what I meant when I use one he's not familiar with. So I can imagine how hard it is for someone in another country to understand Bush at times. Tickles me pink. (Southernism for I enjoy it.))</digression>