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...ways or facing a U.S. attack. Sure, there is a lot of pressure on him right now to give up on developing weapons of mass destruction and to forsake his ambitions of dominating his neighbors. At one point recently, the pressure became so great that he agreed to allow UN weapons inspectors into Iraq. That agreement seemed to signal that Saddam was actually moving toward real reform, which was no doubt a painful prospect for Saddam. But what Saddam failed to realize in that moment of weakness was that no substantive changes of any kind would really be necessary...
...whack” any U.S. soldier who invades Iraq, or he could drop the F-bomb a couple of times (in translation, of course). Better yet, let Saddam use a peremptory “fuhgeddaboudit” to explain Iraq’s plans to comply with UN resolutions. These relatively minor changes to his diction would go a long way toward fixing his image...
...stop them returning to Baghdad is to persuade a majority of Council members that the interests of a satisfactory inspection regime require waiting for a new resolution. Prevailing on the Security Council to delay renewed inspections may be possible, because even the most war-averse members of the UN body want to keep Washington engaged in a diplomatic process rather than see it march unilaterally off to war. Not that there's much danger of that right now: Even moderate Republican senators appear to support a compromise congressional resolution that would tie a U.S. decision to attack Iraq closely...
...When Saddam offered two weeks ago to submit to unfettered inspections, the Security Council's response was to send UN inspection chief Hans Blix to Vienna to discuss practical arrangements for resuming such inspections. But in the absence of any new Security Council resolution changing the terms of inspections, Blix is working off the existing script - one which is unlikely to satisfy U.S. demands. Indeed, media reports claim that a new Security Council draft resolution being proposed by the U.S. and Britain includes demands for access to the presidential sites and all other government buildings and mosques; for security forces...
...Rather than simply a forum for coordinating positions, the UN has become the venue for a battle between contending ideas of how to deal with Saddam Hussein. The U.S. position remains one of demanding regime-change - underscored in flippant comments Tuesday by White House press secretary Ari Fleischer to the effect that the cheapest way to disarm Iraq would simply be the assassination of its leader. But even among those willing to pursue disarmament, the a priori goal of "regime-change" is not widely shared, and language as intemperate as Fleischer's - and more sober comments by other Administration officials...