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To: KLP who wrote (92208)4/11/2003 4:31:24 AM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Not much post-war reconciliation going on:

<The U.N. sanctions can't be changed legally without the approval of the Security Council. And France and Russia -- which had previously argued for loosening sanctions on Mr. Hussein's regime -- now could use their council vetoes to try to keep the embargo intact, at least until Washington affords them a larger role in rebuilding Iraq.
"The French have been threatening to veto resolutions [on Iraqi reconstruction] before they've even been circulated," one council diplomat said.>

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