http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,886826,00.html
Saddam gets six more weeks Blair gains extra time to win over waverers Patrick Wintour and Julian Borger in Washington
Saturday February 1, 2003 Tony Blair and George Bush yesterday agreed to give the UN weapons inspectors and the intelligence agencies as long as six weeks to persuade a sceptical France and Arab countries to come on board for military action against Iraq. In talks at the White House, Mr Blair impressed on the Americans that European public opinion, including in Britain, will not back a war without an explicit second UN resolution. Mr Blair secured support for this longer coalition-building strategy from the US president in a phone call on Thursday. His call coincides with opinion in the US senate. They ended their council of war in Washington with the US president saying: "This is a matter of weeks, not months. Any attempt to delay the process for months would be resisted by the United States."
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Jan. 31, 2003. 01:00 AM Kennedy raises alarm bells over nuclear option
Fears `green light' to other nations Danger to world deepening, he says
WILLIAM WALKER WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON—The United States would become "a symbol of death, destruction and aggression" across the globe if it drops a nuclear bomb on Iraq, says senior Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy. On a mission to slow or stop his government's march to war, Kennedy issued the stark warning today in a Los Angeles Times opinion article he wrote about administration plans to use nuclear weapons against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. "By raising the possibility that nuclear weapons could be part of a first strike against Iraq, the administration is only enhancing its reputation as a reckless unilateralist in the world community," Kennedy wrote. "This policy also deepens the danger of nuclear proliferation by, in effect, telling non-nuclear states that nuclear weapons are necessary to deter a potential U.S. attack and by sending a green light to the world's nuclear states that it is permissible to use them. "Is that the lesson we want to send to North Korea, Pakistan and India, or any other nuclear power?"
this may be heavy for survivors
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/01/31/Worldandnation/Pentagon_stocks_up_on.shtml
Pentagon stocks up on body bags
Nearly 10,000 bags were ordered, but officials say they have not been shipped to the Persian Gulf. By SYDNEY P. FREEDBERG © St. Petersburg Times
published January 31, 2003 In the last six months, the Pentagon has ordered 9,640 body bags, but they are not immediately headed for the Persian Gulf.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15027
Shock and Awe: Guernica Revisited By Gar Smith, AlterNet January 27, 2003
Forget Osama. Forget Saddam. The Pentagon's newest target is the city of Baghdad.
U.S. military strategists have announced a plan to pummel Iraq with as many as 800 cruise missiles in the space of two days. Many of these missiles would rain down on Baghdad, a city of five million people. If George W. Bush gets the war he wants, Baghdad could become the 21st century's Guernica. On April 26, 1937, 25 Nazi bombers dropped 100,000 pounds of bombs and incendiaries on the peaceful Basque village. Seventy percent of the town was destroyed and 1,500 people, a third of the population, were killed. The Pentagon now predicts that the Iraq blitzkrieg could approximate the devastation of a nuclear explosion. "The sheer size of this has never been ... contemplated before," one Pentagon strategist boasted to CBS News. "There will not be a safe place in Baghdad."
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