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| Sammy sez 'yes'... |
| 2002-11-13 |
| Iraqi state-run television announced President Saddam Hussein's acceptance of a U.N. resolution on weapons inspections Wednesday, hours after the country's ambassador to the United Nations told the rest of the world. "We would like to inform you that we have decided to deal with the resolution 1441 despite the bad intentions included in it," a television announcer said, reading from a message from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "We are ready to receive inspectors to carry out their mandate in making sure that Iraq has not produced mass destruction weapons while they were absent from Iraq since 1998." Well, I'm surprised. I didn't think he'd accept until Saturday or Sunday, at the earliest... Thanks to Steve for the link! |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 If that's what he's thinking of trying, he's likely going to fail, especially as the US is going to turn up the heat on Hans Blix and his people to be double-triple-thorough in their appointed rounds. I raised my eyebrow a bit to see it come this early (the acceptance), but I was almost 100% sure it was going to work out like this from the moment I heard about Iraq's "parliament" roaring, stomping and pawing the ground. It was a leadpipe cinch from then on that Saddam was going to play good cop to the parliamentarians' bad cop. |
| Posted by: Joe 2002-11-13 17:43:18 |
| #1 Upon reading the text of Iraqs letter, it is easily seen that Iraq will deal with inspectors as they see fit. Not in a way that will achieve what the UN desires. I would have never thought that he would try to dupe inspectors. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2002-11-13 16:42:56 |