Word: blix
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...Rather than "smoking gun" evidence of Iraqi weapons programs, the U.S. and Britain have insisted in recent weeks that UN resolutions place the onus on Saddam Hussein to prove he has disarmed, and chief inspector Dr. Hans Blix this week testified that Iraq has thus far failed on this front. The case becomes even stronger if the U.S. can show proof of an Iraqi effort to stymie the inspection process, because the argument for giving inspections more time is premised on the idea of Iraqi cooperation. It will become increasingly difficult for reluctant Council members to argue against military action...
...Iraq, appeared late last week to have fallen in step with the hawks' timeline, despite having argued only two weeks ago that the inspectors needed a lot more time. Still, the U.S. looks unlikely to call a halt to inspections and move to military action in the wake of Blix's report. President Bush will likely use his State of the Union address Tuesday to amplify his argument that Saddam has failed to disarm and therefore made military action all but inevitable, but he is unlikely to use the speech as a platform for declaring...
...based in part on the failure of the Bush Administration thus far to set out a convincing case for war. The inspections: Although the Bush administration has not managed to convince many European and Arab allies of its political case for going to war right now, Dr. Blix's report has helped make a case in legal terms that Security Council members may find increasingly difficult to resist...
...Council convened following Blix's report for private consultations, and they are scheduled to meet again on Wednesday. President Bush meets with Britain's Tony Blair on Friday, where he'll reiterate his belief that Britain and the U.S. should allow a few more weeks of inspections, and then seek a Security Council resolution authorizing military action...
...Bush administration to allow the inspection process to continue for a few more weeks, confident that ramping up the inspectors' activities will turn up significant evidence of prohibited programs. But even if it doesn't, the inspection report tees up the U.S. and Britain to issue an ultimatum: Blix's "can do better" can be relatively smoothly parlayed by Washington into "must do better within a month, or else." And unless Saddam complies, the Security Council may well be cajoled, however reluctantly, into passing a war resolution...