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Politics : Attack Iraq? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Silver_Bullet who wrote (1934)	10/2/2002 1:07:16 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 8683

U.N.-Iraq accord too soft, U.S. says URL: usatoday.com By Bill Nichols and Laurence McQuillan, USA TODAY The United States and the United Nations appear headed for a collision after the Bush administration vowed Tuesday to block a deal to begin returning weapons inspectors to Baghdad within two weeks. The agreement to resume inspections, beginning with an advance team that would go to Iraq by mid-October, was completed Tuesday by chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix and Iraqi officials in Vienna. The Bush administration says the plan would allow U.N. teams back into Iraq under rules the White House says are too soft. "The United Nations must show its backbone, and we'll work with members of the (U.N.) Security Council to put a little calcium there, put some calcium in the backbone," President Bush said Tuesday. The president wants a new Security Council resolution that would threaten military action if Iraq does not give arms inspectors free and total access. U.S. officials say they will block any new inspections until a new resolution is passed. "We believe they should not go in under the old inspection regime," Secretary of State Colin Powell said. "The old inspection regime did not work." The looming confrontation complicates U.S. efforts to build international support for action to eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and depose Saddam Hussein. Iraq has warned that it won't accept the tougher new rules the United States wants. And Russia, France and China, which have veto power in the Security Council, have signaled that they would prefer a diplomatic solution rather than the use of force. Blix said Iraq had agreed to honor existing U.N. resolutions on arms inspections. That means any new inspections — which would be the first since U.N. teams left Iraq four years ago — would not include eight presidential palaces that are treated under different rules hammered out in 1998. Those rules require that a separate team, including U.N. diplomats, be present for inspections of the palaces. U.S. officials say that politicizes the process and gives Iraq advance notice. The administration also took a tough line on a congressional resolution supporting the use of force. Bush rebuffed a compromise proposal by Sens. Joseph Biden. D-Del., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., that White House officials said was too restrictive. "I don't want to get a resolution which ties my hands," Bush said. Biden and Lugar, the senior Democrat and Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, proposed a resolution that would make dismantling Iraq's weapons of mass destruction the only trigger for an attack. White House officials said they were optimistic that a resolution would be approved by lawmakers but objected that the Biden-Lugar language failed to include Iraq's defiance of other U.N. resolutions. Meanwhile, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said bluntly that the United States wants Saddam removed by any possible means — including assassination or exile. "There are many options that the president hopes the world and people of Iraq will exercise themselves," he said. When asked about the possible cost of a war with Iraq, Fleischer said Bush has yet to decide on military action. He added: "I can only say that the cost of a one-way ticket is substantially less than that. The cost of one bullet the Iraqi people take on themselves is substantially less." Fleischer later stressed that the administration is not involved in any plots to kill Saddam.

To: Silver_Bullet who wrote (1934)	10/2/2002 1:54:02 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 8683

Re: Someone like Saddam can't get all the power and do some really bad things although Dubya and his "Justic Dept." are doing thier best to grab all the power they can while the public ain't looking. Bush and his boys were able to steal $30 Billion from California with everyone's eyes wide open. They did a heck of a snow job to push the U.S. Patri-idiotic Police Powers Act through a very intimidated Congress. The anthrax attacks last fall were completely politically motivated. The public, astonishingly, tends to be stupid enough to believe the Liar-In-Chief when he claims Iraq is some imminent threat to the public in the U.S. But seriously, you've got to get over talking about any such operation as a so-called "Justice Department" in America. What we have here is a "Legal Chicanery Apparatus (LCA)" which has absolutely nothing to do with justice or Justice. You do understand the difference, don't you? Actually, the LCA is just like the TSA. That being the Transportation Security Authority. As you may be familiar, this is the swell new operation that is in charge of intimidating and terrorizing passengers on our domestic flights and burying the investigation into the aircraft that crashed during Operation 911. Of course, the LCA is intervening on behalf of the TSA in Federal Court in New York in order to keep everything very hush, hush and on the QT. abcnews.go.com Remember, mum's the word! We wouldn't want any state secrets to slip past your lips, now would we?