Yearly Archives: 2002

The UN wants to agree a timetable with Baghdad under which the inspectors can return and resume their work. Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix is confident the two sides will reach an agreement. In Vienna, Mr Blix said he expected … Continue reading →

”They [Iraqi officials] said they would allow us to go look anywhere we wanted,” Representative James McDermott, Democrat of Washington, said on ABC’s ”This Week.” ”And until they don’t do that, there is no need to do this coercive stuff … Continue reading →

With us now is a guy who’s been following the story since the very beginning, Colonel David Hackworth, the author of the book Steal My Soldier’s Hearts. All right. Now, you were down as a Newsweek correspondent in the war, … Continue reading →

“Many thinking people are questioning this war,” said Rita Clark, 70, a grandmother who said she was originally from Nicaragua. Clark, who has arthritis, said she wasn’t sure if she could complete the long walk to Cheney’s house. “I don’t … Continue reading →

Instead, our president seems single-mindedly obsessed with attacking Iraq. For months the Bush war team has been talking up taking out Saddam and sneaking so many war toys into places like Qatar and Kuwait that it’s a wonder our desert … Continue reading →

While Washington had the firm backing of Britain, the other three veto-wielding Security Council members – France, China, and Russia – remained steadfast in their view that weapons inspections by UN specialists must first take place. President Jacques Chirac of … Continue reading →

Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan declared Iraq rejected any extra procedures for weapons inspections as contained in the draft U.N. resolution envisaging a 30-day deadline for Baghdad to declare all its weapons of mass destruction programmes. “The stance from the … Continue reading →

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said his country would take “proper actions” if it were hit again by Iraqi missiles. “If harm is done to Israel, if we suffer casualties, or non-conventional weapons are used on us, then definitely Israel … Continue reading →

1. High casualties may result at home or abroad. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admits that Iraq has biological and chemical weapons. Faced with destruction of his regime (and possibly his own death), Hussein would have every incentive to use … Continue reading →