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To: LindyBill who wrote (51884)	10/14/2002 3:14:51 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

" U.N. Pressed for Tough Stance on Iraq ". I agree Lindy.The resolutions HAVE to be tuff to get around the musical chairs they played last time.But remember, they did find 95% with the last teams, so the UN will be hesitant and suspicious about anything they consider might undermine the new inspections. Statements like these don't help much: >>The ability to have our own people on inspections teams, and not just a bunch of U.N. bureaucrats," is not open to discussion, said a senior administration official closely involved in Iraq planning.<< Not exactly diplomacy when negotiations are taking place, unless it is the administration's intention to swamp the issue from the get go.I wouldn't put it past the hawks, and they don’t seem to give a damn anyway. Brave new world.

To: LindyBill who wrote (51884)	10/14/2002 7:52:38 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

...Disdain for the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) is high in the Pentagon. Senior officials routinely dismiss UNMOVIC chief Hans Blix, who has objected to this and several other provisions in the resolution, as living in a fantasyland where a few dozen inspectors can counter Iraq's efforts to hide chemical and biological weaponry. Blix's concern, which was echoed in an interview with Rolf Ekeus, the first head of the U.N. inspection team in Iraq, is that if the United States and other permanent council members put their own people on inspection teams, the U.N. team leader would lose control of the operation. "Suppose the U.S. member wants to go behind one door in a building and the French member doesn't, what happens?" Ekeus said in a recent interview. "That plan is unworkable." Jeez louise, sounds like the Olympic figure skating judges..:-/ Where are the objective criteria?