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August 19, 2002
General tells Bush: Don't go it alone
>From Tim Reid in Washington and Clem Cecil in Moscow
Gulf veteran: General Norman Schwarzkopf opposes unilateral US action against
IraqNORMAN SCHWARZKOPF, the US general who commanded allied forces during the
Gulf War, joined a growing number of senior US military and political figures
yesterday who are opposed to a unilateral invasion of Iraq and said President
Bush �should not go it alone�.
General Schwarzkopf, now retired from the US Army but still a commanding
voice on matters relating to Iraq, said that the success of Operation Desert
Storm in 1991 and the expulsion of President Saddam Hussein�s troops from
Kuwait was almost entirely based on the existence of a broad international
coalition. He said: �In the Gulf War we had an international force and troops
from many nations. We would be lacking if we went it alone at this time.�
He emphasised the dangers of an invasion without international consensus and
military support because of the size and strength of the Iraqi Army. �It is
not going to be an easy battle but it would be much more effective if we
didn�t have to do it alone,� he said.
To be effective, a US-led invasion would need launching points not only from
Kuwait and Turkey, but also from Saudi Arabia, which Riyadh has so far
pointedly refused, he added.
Wesley Clark, the retired general who led the Nato alliance during the Kosovo
campaign, also joined the voices counselling against an invasion without
international co-operation.
In an article for the September issue of The Washington Monthly, he said:
�The early successes (in Afghanistan) seem to have reinforced the conviction
of some within the US Government that the continuing war on terrorism is best
waged outside the structures of international institutions. This is a
fundamental misjudgment. The longer the war goes on . . . the more our
success will depend on the willing co-operation and active participation of
our allies.�
Brent Scowcroft, who was the National Security Adviser to the first President
Bush and who is a close friend of the Bush family, said last week that US
action against Iraq, without resolving tensions between Israel and the
Palestinians, �could turn the whole region into a cauldron and thus destroy
the war on terrorism�.
Richard Armey, the Texan House majority leader and a close presidential ally,
said that an �unprovoked attack� on Iraq would be unjustifiable.
Mr Bush�s hopes of international support suffered a further blow yesterday
with the confirmation that Russia and Iraq are about to agree to a five-year
economic co-operation plan worth �27 billion. Abbas Khalaf, Iraq�s Ambassador
to Moscow, said that the agreement would probably be signed in Baghdad at the
beginning of September.
Mr Khalaf said that the new agreement will enable Russia to help Iraq to
modernise much of its infrastructure, which was built by Soviet or Russian
specialists.
President Putin supports lifting United Nations sanctions against Iraq in the
hope that Baghdad will start paying off debts that were amassed in Soviet
times. Mr Bush also faced accusations of hypocrisy over his claims that
Saddam�s use of chemical weapons justified �regime change�. The New York Times
said that covert US support for Iraq during its war against Iran in the
1980s would have included the realisation that Saddam was using gas and
chemical weapons.
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