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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (27428)	8/10/1998 8:20:00 AM
From: Captain James T. Kirk	Respond to of 95453

Monday August 10 1:42 AM EDT US Urges UN To Stand Firm on Iraq JIM ABRAMS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein should neither pick a fight with the United States nor make the mistake of believing that this nation's resolve has been weakened by the attention on President Clinton's legal troubles, U.S. officials say. ''Anybody who believes that controversies in the United States will deter us or prevent us or impede our ability to respond to threats to the United States in a swift and appropriate manner, makes a serious mistake,'' White House national security adviser Sandy Berger said Sunday on CBS' ''Face the Nation.'' Clinton's preparation to testify in the Monica Lewinsky matter ''is not a distraction in terms of foreign policy, I can assure you of that,'' Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said on NBC's ''Meet the Press.'' At the same time, Albright and others insisted that it is the United Nations, not the United States, that must confront Saddam over his latest act of defiance - putting a freeze on U.N. weapons inspections. ''This, at this stage, is not a problem between Saddam Hussein and the U.S., it is a problem between Saddam Hussein and the United Nations, and the United Nations has to stand up for what it has obliged him to do,'' Albright said. Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., noted that even France and Russia, which in the past have been more sympathetic toward Iraq, had joined in the U.N. Security Council's unanimous condemnation of Iraq's latest effort to shackle the arms inspection teams. ''Before we go threatening force, we should try very hard to see if we can keep this coalition together,'' he said on ''Fox News Sunday.'' The administration has not moved to increase U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf region. Defense Secretary William Cohen told ABC's ''This Week'' that ''we don't want to have (Saddam) put us in a position of constantly responding to his initiative.'' But Cohen also noted that the one aircraft carrier group and nearly 20,000 troops in the region was twice as much firepower, with double the number of cruise missiles, compared with a year ago. ''We have a very formidable force that (Saddam) ought not to consider trying to contest,'' he said. U.S. troop strength reached more than 30,000 last February when Saddam tried to block the inspection teams from some areas and demanded an end to the economic sanctions that have crippled the country since the end of the 1991 Gulf War. Cohen said Saddam will fail in his attempts both to split the Security Council and end the sanctions. Until he fully complies with the inspections, the defense secretary said, ''he can seek no relief from these sanctions.'' U.N. chief arms inspector Richard Butler said that while there were different approaches in the Security Council to Iraq, no one was saying the country should be relieved of its disarmament obligations. Butler, interviewed on CNN's ''Late Edition,'' also said the Iraqis never mentioned Clinton's legal problems in their talks last week leading to the freeze. ''What is deeply exercising Iraq's mind now is that we found VX nerve agent in some missile warhead remnants,'' he said. ''I think they know we're on to something. They just simply do not want us to take away their biological capability.''