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To: re3 who wrote (149089)	10/22/2002 3:54:44 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

The easing of rhetoric was an attempt to get the Security Council off the dime, to either pass a resolution that spells out what is required of Iraq but without pre-authorizing force, which is what France, Russia and China claimed was the stumbling block, or prove themselves incapable of passing anything meaningful. If Bush gives them what they say they want, then we either get progress in the UN or we get a basis for saying to our allies "look, we offered to do it their way and they still won't do anything, so join our coalition and we'll get the job done without them." That doesn't mean we go straight to war, though, but gives the foot draggers one last chance to take action. It is not a reversal, but rather a negotiating tactic. Regards, Bob

To: re3 who wrote (149089)	10/22/2002 4:00:17 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

"how can anyone be ASSURED that the disarming is 100 %" That issue is central to this farce -- our primary concern is with nuclear weapons and we know he does not have them. What he has is "nuclear capability" -- meaning people with the know-how to make nuclear weapons. How do we "disarm him" of people? This whole ruse is a farce born out of thinking that Dick Cheney knew what he was doing when he went for the throat and presented "regime change by invasion" as the key element of our foreign policy vis-a-vis Iraq and destroyed any hope we had of building a coalition to go after Saddam.