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SOUNDING BOARD
Sunday, September 29, 2002
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As Iraq agrees for UN inspectors' unconditional access, Bush seeks support from US Congress.
I don't know what the hell Iraq refers to as "practical arrangements". It agrees to unconditional access but they want to talk about practical arrangements. Indeed, as Dick Cheney said, "we've seen this sort of thing before". The Iraqi government should be reminded that the UN Inspection process may proceed even without any warning to the sites for inspection. See this BBC feature on weapons inspectors for details.
It seems that the Arab world has indeed a valid reason for having encouraged Saddam to admit the inspectors back in. However, what they didn't see is the resoluteness of the hawks. As of this time, Bush seeks US Congress' support for a military action against Iraq. US seems very determined to "go it alone". Machiavelli will smile at US and say "make your wars big and quick". This is scary (read: exciting, ooops).
