This Just In: Iraq Concedes to Inspections...

[GePap]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
Bush rejects Iraqs offer.

"This is not a matter of inspections. It is about disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqi regime's compliance with all other Security Council resolutions.

This is a tactical step by Iraq in hopes of avoiding strong U.N. Security Council action. As such, it is a tactic that will fail.

It is time for the Security Council to act"

Way to lose mr. president! Now, i have no idea what kind of pressure the US is puttin on other members of the Security council to move in a way to declare war, but for the president to reject this out of hand is one quick way of destroying the "all the US wants is to help the UN' persona he created on thursday. Bush is right, that this is just a tactic, but its the best one Iraq could use, and Powell will have a lot more work to get Bush's little vendetta going. I expect the Saudis and other wolrd leaders to hail this UN victory and start planning for a new inspection regime. Also watch for Blair to get pounded the next few days if the takes the same line.

[Lincoln]

Bush is calling the shots, not Sadam. the inspections will be on UN terms not Sadam's. The offer was not Sadam's to make although he will have to put up or shut up when the final resolution is passed in a day or two. There will be no war unless Iraq refuses to comply with the upcoming UN resolution. This one will be a firm ultimatum, not another game for Sadam to play with.

[Andrew1999]

Hussein could fulfill every single one of Bush's demands and there will still be a war. Remember, whenever you see anything about this war, that it's not about inspectors, or human rights, or (lol) UN resolutions. It's about a vendetta, pure and simple.

[Jon Miller]

it is about Iraq being against the US

pure and simple

Jon Miller

[leftover_crack]

ya but the vendetta happened cause of all of those above. Iraq is like teathered goat at this point. The US is T-rex...


No matter. We will still strike Iraq on October 6th.

[Kontiki]

Yep, get on with attack. Otherwise, Saddam will just use WMD against Israel and the US just like he did during the first Gulf War.....

[Gatekeeper]

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if, that in the unlikely case the United States did nothing against Iraq, Israel decides to blow the hell out of it. Particularly if Iraq's alleged nuclear ambitions verge on becoming reality.

Gatekeeper

[notyoueither]

There is always the Israeli solution...

Leak them the intel of what and where. Let them blow the hell out of it and then shelter them from international sanction, but...

That ain't the point, is it?

The point is an international renegade who has started more than 1 war and lobbed weapons at non involved nations.

The point is that the US has had enough of the bull sh!t of puszy footing around with lunatics from the ME who think that murdering civilians while in plain clothes or being safe behind a foreign capitol is a good idea.

The point is that there has been enough bull sh!t, and that to allow that particularly vile lunatic to gain bigger WMD would be to put the peace of the entire world at stake. What do you think would be the response from Moscow, Beijing, Paris, or Washington were a nuke to go off? Do you think a few million would die? Duh!

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Lincoln
Bush is calling the shots, not Sadam. the inspections will be on UN terms not Sadam's. The offer was not Sadam's to make although he will have to put up or shut up when the final resolution is passed in a day or two. There will be no war unless Iraq refuses to comply with the upcoming UN resolution. This one will be a firm ultimatum, not another game for Sadam to play with.

Unless its vetoed.

[MarkG]

[MarkG]

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Nop, Saddam isn't working on his nuke actually.

Saddam was a really bad studient and was lurking at his femal classmate during atomistic lessons ...

[Thucydides]

The scary thing is that Doonesbury (as they often are) is pretty close to the truth here. Most people pay only scant attention to the events that lie outside of the there one narrow life, and purposefully ignorant of most things that even a junior high school student should know (Jay Leno q&A is a good example of this, also I've seen plenty of survey's showing how ignorant Americans are concerning basic things like geography, science and history). It's sort of amazing that democracy works at all with such an ignorant populance.

[Arrian]

Leno Q&A is set up. They choose the idiotic responses because they are supposedly funny.

That being said, yeah, the average American doesn't know much about the issues w/regard to Iraq. I had a quick debate at work the other day... and ran head-on into "Saddam is evil." Why? He has WoMD! So do we, and we've used 'em too. But he's evil! At which point I gave up.

-Arrian

[DinoDoc]

I was hoping for coercive inspections at the very least. What are the chances of that still happening?