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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (62773)	12/22/2002 4:00:46 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

WTF, the UN inspectors in Iraq IS the alternative. They are helping keep the peace. And just why are they currently there now Karen? How come they haven't bothered to be there since 1998?? Because the US is forcing the issue.. That's why.. The UN has done little to nothing over the past 5 years to deal with Saddam's regime. They have, like yourself, been content that the US "contain" him at OUR EXPENSE, and potential loss of life.. They don't have to bear the blame for any negative repercussions from this containment.. the US does.. So don't you think it's just a bit cynical for you to claim that the UN inspectors are the "solution"?? They are in there in order to keep the US from acting unilaterally.. And they have little real motivation to find any WMDs that would definitely confirm a material breach of the UNSC resolutions.. The US is driving the inspection process, not the UN. Blix and Annan are doing as much as possible, without being obvious, to act as a political shield for Saddam's regime... Thus, the inspectors are there more to prevent US action, than to actually find weapons... I thought even you could understand that simple fact... Hawk