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To: GST who wrote (147781)	9/18/2002 3:47:12 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

Let me highlight. Hans Blix and his United Nations team are preparing to conduct inspections to determine whether Iraq has abandoned its effort to develop weapons of mass destruction, but many diplomats believe that pressure on Iraq to cooperate with UN has been eased by intensification of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, which makes it all but impossible for US to win Arab backing for offensive against Iraq; Bush administration signals determination to keep tensions in Israel from distracting it from its goal of confronting Iraq. I'll even spell it out for you. The UN was not willing to make a "disarm or else" demand on Iraq. They were barely even willing to make a "disarm, please" request. There was no broad coalition that would support any move of any sort on Iraq, be it diplomatic pressure, ultimatums OR military action. It wasn't until the UN was convinced that the US MIGHT take matters into its own hands that they were willing to even consider the case against Iraq. Once they were willing to listen and Bush made his case, the world agreed - the UN MUST do something about Iraq.