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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (359998)	2/15/2003 9:09:18 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Respectfully disagree! In the scheme of things, I don't think the protesters are going to influence the US govt. one iota. M

To: ManyMoose who wrote (359998)	2/15/2003 9:14:32 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Wow...what a surprise. Sorry little Frenchies and Huns, no Blue Helmets and we are disgusted you would ask..hahahahaha! By David Chater in baghdad and David Wastell in Brussels (Filed: 16/02/2003) Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, has rebuffed the controversial plan drawn up by France and Germany last week aimed at avoiding military action in the Gulf. The peace proposal, which argued that extra time and resources should be given to the United Nations weapons inspectors, also called for the deployment of 1,000 armed UN peacekeeping troops. While the plan was welcomed by Russia and deepened divisions within the UN Security Council, Mr Sabri flatly rejected any suggestion that blue-helmeted peacekeepers could operate in Iraq. "No Iraqi would accept the deployment of such a force," he told the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat. While he did not doubt the desire of some international parties to "face up to the logic of war and aggression", Mr Sabri claimed that any peace initiative that did not have Washington's backing was bound to fail. Yesterday a leading Iraqi newspaper, the government-owned al-Jumhouriya, put a positive spin on the report given to the Security Council by the UN weapons inspectors, claiming that it had left the United States and Britain more isolated than ever in their efforts to sanction the use of force against Iraq. On Friday Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei told the UN that they had discovered no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq but accused Iraq of making omissions in its arms declaration. As 3,000 Iraqis took part in a protest against the war in Baghdad, the inspectors visited nine sites, including a Baghdad facility that produces rocket parts, as their hunt for chemical, biological or nuclear weapons continued. An IAEA team also carried out an aerial survey of the Iraqi capital. Iraq's readiness to comply with UN resolutions will be tested this week when Mr Blix orders Baghdad to destroy Iraq's al-Samoud missile system and 380 newly-imported engines. Al-Samoud missiles can exceed the 150-kilometre limit set by the UN. Without them, the Iraqi army's ability to resist any invasion force would be severely handicapped. In a separate development, Nato ambassadors are expected to meet today in an effort to find common ground on planned military support for Turkey against possible attack by Iraq. Mr Blix's report did little to break the damaging deadlock on the issue and talks scheduled for yesterday were postponed to give more time for informal discussions. Lord Robertson, Nato's Secretary General, is now expected to bypass the alliance's North Atlantic Council, at which all 19 members are represented, and convene a meeting of its Military Policy Committee, from which France is excluded because of its unique arm's-length relationship with Nato's military structures. France, Germany and Belgium have blocked Nato's plans to send Awacs surveillance aircraft, Patriot missile batteries and specialist equipment to protect Turkey against chemical, biological and nuclear attack. They argue that this would wrongly signal that war with Iraq was inevitable. The row over the Turkish request has further poisoned relations between Paris, Berlin and Washington.