At 04:21 PM 3/8/2003 -0800 Deborah Harrell wrote:
>Thank you for clarifying Res 1441 (
No problem.... :)
>And what it has disclosed recently, as well as
>beginning destruction of the 'al-Samoud' (sp?)
>missiles, is certainly because of the presence of
>those troops. So it is more 'disclosure under
>coercion' than real cooperation; but destruction of
>at least some proscribed munitions is occuring, and if
>further disclosures/weapon-wrecking happens because of
>those troops - without shots yet fired - that is a
>good thing.
True.... but it is important to not be distracted by this.... the
Al-Samoud's a but a small piece of Iraq's vast military arsenal.
Moreover, the disarmament of these missiles obscures the most important
demand of Resolution 1441 - that Iraq totally and fully disclose its banned
weapons systems and programs that we *don't* already know about. There's
no question that Iraq has totally refused to do this.
>What do you think of the Brits'
>deadline-beyond-which-military-action-will-occur if
>full disclosure and cooperation hasn't happened? {This
>is slightly unfair b/c when you wrote this post, the
>March 17 idea/amendendment hadn't been proposed.) It
>seems more fair - ah! but the library is about to
>close and I have to send! Will write more Monday!
The deadline seems entirely resonable to me....... indeed, since Saddam
Hussein countered the deadline proposal by petitioning the UN to declare
Iraq to be in "full compliance" and thus to lift sanctions on it, we
already know what Hussein's answer will be.
JDG
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