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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (75634)	2/19/2003 2:14:14 PM
From: aladin	Respond to of 281500

Chicago Tribune, on the UN's Iraqnophobia: On Friday, as the world looked in on the UN Security Council, diplomats from several countries — notably France, China and Russia — could be seen tiptoeing around Resolution 1441, in which the UN had demanded immediate, active and unconditional cooperation from Iraq to disarm. The diplomats seemed to cover their ears when inspectors tallied the scorecard: some 400 inspections at more than 300 sites, no weapons to speak of; one 12,000-page "declaration" of mainly rehash and obfuscation; tons of chemical and biological weapons still unaccounted for. In other words, nothing much has changed. The updated reports by UN weapons inspection leaders Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei exposed the fault lines more starkly than ever between those countries that still hope Saddam Hussein may one day wake up and decide to cooperate, and those who believe, as Blix said a few days ago, that it is "five minutes to midnight" for Hussein. There's no doubt the clock is winding down. The only question now is whether the UN will find its spine in time to do something about Saddam's continued defiance, or will stand by and watch a United States-led coalition do the job. ...