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Saddam Hussein may be many things, but he's not stupid. That much was clear from his timely and unconditional surrender on Monday to the demand that Iraq readmit UN weapons inspectors and allow them to search, unfettered, for weapons of mass destruction. In a letter sent to the UN Security Council, whose members are at work on a resolution demanding that Iraq submit to new inspections or face the consequences, the government of Iraq announced it would accept inspections "without conditions" and was ready to begin immediately discussing the practical arrangements for the inspectors' return. The White House...
...Baghdad reacts on the arms-inspection issue. Saddam may have been relying on the fact that Washington's policy of regime change in Baghdad has won very little international support, but last week it was the Iraqi dictator who found himself isolated in his defiance of the UN on disarmament issues...
Scott Ritter was the UN's top weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998, when he resigned claiming President Clinton was too easy on Saddam. Now he says the dictator doesn't seem to have weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and that trying to oust Saddam is "extremely dangerous." TIME's Massimo Calabresi asked the voluble former marine about his recent private trip to Baghdad, Jane Fonda, and accusations he's a spy for Israel, Iraq or Russia...
...more aware than any UN official that Iraq has set up covert procurement funds to violate sanctions. This was true in 1997-1998, and I'm sure its true today. Of course Iraq can do this. The question is, has someone found that what Iraq has done goes beyond simple sanctions violations? We have tremendous capabilities to detect any effort by Iraq to obtain prohibited capability. The fact that no one has shown that he has acquired that capability doesn't necessarily translate into incompetence on the part of the intelligence community. It may mean that he hasn't done...
...Ritter made a documentary film harshly critical of UN sanctions against Iraq - a film in which he sought to demonstrate that Iraq no longer represented a threat to its neighbors or anyone else. An increasingly activist critic of U.S. Iraq policy, the Bush administration's move to prepare America for war with Iraq prompted Ritter to fly to Baghdad and attack Washington's plans...