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To: LindyBill who wrote (57054)	11/14/2002 1:08:33 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Yes, the Iraqi letter was full of weird rhetoric that made it sound like this admission of inspectors would also turn out to be conditionally unconditional, like the one in September. Andrew Sullivan does an amusing rundown at www.andrewsullivan.com. The letter didn't even "accept" Resolution 1441, it only promised to "deal" with it. WTF does that mean? I sure hope that the amiable Mr. Blix (did you see his interview with Charlie Rose? you couldn't ask for a pleasanter dinner guest) heads straight for a Presidential Palace on Monday. BTW, the composition of inspectors that Iraq is moaning about again was specified in the Resolution: they are to be chosen for technical merit, not nationality. So naturally Kofi Annan is running around acting like Saddam's lawyer again, saying hey, they're letting the inspectors in, isn't that great, that's all we're asking. Yeah right. At least by now no one in the Bush administration has the slightest illusion left about the way Kofi will behave, after his glowing review of Saddam's "unconditional" acceptance in September.