At 10:22 AM 3/4/2003 -0800 Miller, Jeffrey wrote:
>As a further question, why can't we just provide a list of exactly what
the Iraqi government needs to do in order to avert a war? Why, after Blix
releases a somewhat positive report, are we suddenly insisting on "regime
change" as a requirement to prevent invasion?
>
In answer to your first question, we cannot do this because there no longer
exists such a list. Iraq can no longer avoid a war.
A few months ago, Iraq could have avoided war by complying with the
unanimously passed UNSC Resolution 1441, which laid out precisely what was
required of Iraq, including (but no limited to) a full, complete, and
comprehensive disclosure of its nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons
programs. Resolution 1441 also made it quite clear that this was Iraq's
final opportunity to avoid "serious consequences" for 12 years of
noncompliance with UN resolutions.
Now, after refusing to comply with Resolution 1441 for several months, it
is impossible for Iraq to comply with Resolution 1441, because such stated
compliance would be inherently unbelievable by any rational and impartial
observer. There is simply no way for Iraq to present a full disclosure
at this point, such that we could be true it was truly a full, complete,
and comprehensive disclosure - and there is simply no way for any kind or
number of inspectors to verify that disclosure in a country the size of
California controlled by a regime determined to thwart them.
Its all over at this point.
JDG
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