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Monday, January 27, 2003
posted by gbarto at 10:06 AM:
Blix: Iraq Doesn't Get ItChief weapons inspector says Baghdad not in 'genuine acceptance of the disarmament demanded of it'
And the UN's answer? Let's give it more time. Hmmm. Now if it were the case that Iraq hadn't cooperated at first but gradually came around and was now cooperating, that might indicate that even though they had denied, delayed and obstructed, one might extend the inspections. But it appears, looking at preliminary reports, that Iraq won't even do the minimum necessary to let the UN pretend it's making progress. Rather, it seems determined to make the UN make a joke of itself in its efforts to save Saddam's butt. The UN should know better, for it faces a very real danger of giving the world concrete evidence that when the UN is not the US's vehicle of choice for multilateralizing its policies, it is nothing at all.
