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...campaign, Bush was highly critical of Clinton's policy. But he takes office when most of the mechanisms applied against Saddam have worn out. The 10-year-old sanctions imposed by the U.N. have unraveled. Countries such as France and Russia prefer to do business with Iraq. Moderate Arab states don't like Saddam but can't stomach the deprivations suffered by ordinary Iraqis. Egypt has restored diplomatic relations. The U.N. weapons-inspections regime is dead. The Bush administration is pushing money to opposition groups that most analysts say are too weak, divided and unpopular to do much...
...Powell's mission is to take soundings as the administration wrestles to devise a new approach to the entire region. Unhappily, Iraq still figures at the center, complicating every other aspect. Saddam has played to the Arab street by embracing the Palestinian uprising, handing out money to families of those killed and portraying himself as the one Arab leader bold enough to take on Israel. More seriously, TIME has confirmed, he is banking unaudited cash by sneaking out oil through a pipeline to Syria. Unlike the revenues he gets from petroleum sales allowed under the U.N.'s oil-for-food...
...While U.S. officials like Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talk of aggressive new strategies to get rid of Saddam, Powell speaks mainly of reinvigorating the sanctions. To do that, he will need to convince Arab and European allies that Saddam is playing and winning a propaganda game by letting his people starve. And to bring the allies back aboard, Powell will need to draw up an approach that reduces civilian hardships while concentrating embargoes on things that count. Powell has taken to saying sanctions are really about ensuring that Iraq complies with 1991 cease-fire agreements...
...image and give an early shove to Saddam, but they don't do much for the Bush administration's primary current objective in the Gulf region - halting the gradual collapse of sanctions against Iraq. Secretary of State Colin Powell heads for the Middle East next week, hoping to build Arab support for a more limited sanctions package targeted specifically at denying Baghdad access to military equipment and technology that could be used in developing weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. appears to have recognized that the current comprehensive sanctions package is bound to collapse because both European and Arab allies...
...result of the deteriorating Israeli-Palestinian situation, and the bombing of targets near Baghdad is unlikely to make his job any easier. Then again, as long as civilian casualties were avoided, the air strikes may not do much damage either. Washington will be working the phones Friday, ensuring that Arab allies understand that the U.S. sees the latest strikes simply as business-as-usual in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game over the "no fly" zones. Obviously, Saddam is well aware of the dangers that arise for U.S. policy when missiles are flying. Iraqi TV immediately announced Friday that three...