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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (80518)	3/9/2003 2:54:53 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Bush Presses for War by William Hartung* Published on Friday, March 7, 2003 commondreams.org <<...The weakest element of Bush's presentation was his failure to explain what the rush is all about. Saddam Hussein's regime is beginning to cooperate more fully with UN weapons inspectors, no doubt in significant part because of the threat of force posed by U.S. forces gathering in the region. He has no missiles that can reach the United States. The International Atomic Energy Agency (which Bush inadvertently referred to as the "IEAE" instead of the "IAEA" during his press conference) has suggested that not only does Iraq not currently possess nuclear weapons or the facilities to make them, but that with a few more months of inspections, the agency should be in a position to verify whether all remnants of Iraq's nuclear weapons program have been eliminated. What remains of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons programs is really all that is at issue now, and top UN inspector Hans Blix is clearly of the opinion that the with the increased cooperation created by the threat of force these programs too can be substantially dismantled...>> *William D. Hartung is the Director of the Arms Trade Resource Center, and a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute. He can be reached at hartung@newschool.edu