US won't take "yes" for an answer
Oct. 3rd, 2002 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothIraq say they will accept inspections under the conditions the UN have been asking for for four years. Now the US want more - in particular, they want to search Saddam's eight presidential palaces, which between them cover twelve square miles.
Now, that doesn't seem like a position beyond the bounds of reason. What really is lunatic, what makes it unambiguously clear that the US wants war at any cost and fears nothing more than Iraqi co-operation with weapons inspection, is that the US has said it will prevent any inspections going ahead at all until its new conditions are agreed upon.
Presumably if Iraq is awkward enough to agree to these too, then still further conditions will be imposed, perhaps if all else fails insisting that Israeli spies once again accompany the weapons inspectors. Or most likely, the bombing will simply start one day, without warning, while negotiations proceed; Dubya will declare that he has "waited too long".
Now, that doesn't seem like a position beyond the bounds of reason. What really is lunatic, what makes it unambiguously clear that the US wants war at any cost and fears nothing more than Iraqi co-operation with weapons inspection, is that the US has said it will prevent any inspections going ahead at all until its new conditions are agreed upon.
Presumably if Iraq is awkward enough to agree to these too, then still further conditions will be imposed, perhaps if all else fails insisting that Israeli spies once again accompany the weapons inspectors. Or most likely, the bombing will simply start one day, without warning, while negotiations proceed; Dubya will declare that he has "waited too long".
