Iraq's Restrictions on the 'Unrestricted' Offer

Arthur Wildfire! March

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Yes. Restrictions on 'unrestricted access'. Fetters on 'unfettered access'. Iraq fooled Charlie Brown again, but not Bush.

Rush reported this at 3:30, referring to an article I've yet to find. Hannity at 3:30 said he 'Almost drove off the road' when he heard Rush's find. There's an article out there somewhere that the 'unlimited inspection' offer is limited, to military bases. Inspections are, in fact, limited only to military bases, which makes them useless.

[Burr5]

Here's a direct link:

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=698298&in_review

Hope it works. Anyway Iraq is toast now.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I think we should inspect the way Madam Albright says, massively. I think five divisions of inspectors would be mininmal. Although, twenty five divisions would be better. And they better be armed, with air support.

Seriously, the inspectors proved multiple times that he violated the rules. Such proof was supposed to trigger and end to the cease-fire, if I'm not mistaken. And kicking inspectors out? Definite end to cease-fire.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

[It works. TY.]

West on brink of Iraq war

by Joe Murphy, Evening Standard

The US and Britain returned to the brink of war today as Saddam Hussein's dramatic promise to allow unfettered weapons inspections turned out to have strings attached...

http://www.thisislondon.com/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=698298&in_review

[lexington minuteman 1775]

well we keep hammering away at this on Free Rebublic.Drudge or somebody other than Hannity and Rush will pick up on it...keep it bumping and pinging till the rest of the press reports it.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Maybe someone should post a vanity of this under 'front page news'. I didn't have the guts to. LOL.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Just amazing to me is that this is HUGE news.And so far only Limbaugh, and Hannity have picked up on it.And don't you find it wierd that i read on FR that Daschle now says war vote will come well before the election in November when just a couple days ago he was saying.It OUGHT to wait until after? Something very strange goin on here.

[Uncle Hal]

I heard on CNBC that the arab group says that is not true and there no restrictions. This is just the beginning of a stalling process. Iraq and their cohorts will try and drag this out as long as possable.

[CougarGA7]

I think we should counter the "unrestricted" inspection offer by saying that the UN inspectors will be supported by 250,000 ground troops and air support.

[EternalHope]

I heard on CNBC that the arab group says that is not true and there no restrictions.

A careful reading of the letter shows there are no restrictions on the return of the inspectors. However, the letter says nothing about whether there will be restrictions on the actual inspections.

Elsewhere in the letter it says Iraq is ready to discuss the practical details.

In other words, the Arab League spokesman is absolutely right when he says there are no restrictions on the return of the inspectors. And that is absolutely irrelevant to doing meaningful inspections.

Where are the "brilliant" analysts in the U.S. media? Are they blind? Or are they just dumber than a box of rocks.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

[I doubt that PMS-NBC can outquote the following:]

Ali Muhsen Hamid claimed Iraq was being sincere, but he stipulated that civilian sites would not be available to the inspectors. "We support anywhere, any military site (for inspections), but not as some people have suggested for inspections against hospitals, against schools."

Hospitals are among key sites for inspections because of evidence that Saddam uses health laboratories to manufacture viruses for biological weapons.

An Arab League spokesman said only military sites were covered because it would take 10 years for inspectors to examine civilian buildings, which would divert the UN's attention from making Iraq obey its resolutions. "If the US really wants to resolve this dispute it will welcome the offer," he added.

No10 pointed out that during the last, failed, round of inspections, the Iraqi president redesignated about half of his most secret military installations as " presidential palaces", ruling them out of bounds to inspectors.

Iraq capitalised on the disarray to mount a propaganda offensive. Tariq Aziz, Saddam's deputy prime minister, said the offer "thwarted" any reasons for a military attack. He added: "The aim of the American policies is the oil in the Gulf."

The Iraqi state news agency said Saddam may send a personal appeal to the UN within days.

Saddam made his offer in a letter presented to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan late last night after an emergency meeting of his security and diplomatic advisers.

Within minutes, the White House issued a statement scorning the promise as "a tactical step by Iraq in hopes of avoiding strong UN Security Council action".

"As such, it will fail," said spokesman Scott McClellan. "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."

The concern in Washington is that support for military action will rapidly lose momentum. A State Department official described the offer as " a nightmare stalling technique".

Officials said planning for war would continue unchanged. But there was no longer any guarantee of a resolution ordering Iraq to disarm.

France was the first of the big five Security Council members to waver, suggesting that a new resolution be put on hold. And its top general flatly ruled out any preemptive strike against Saddam.

Armed forces chief General Jean-Pierre Kelche said an attack would bring chaos, adding: "We have to take him at his word."

Russia declared diplomacy had triumphed. Foreign minister Igor Ivanov said: "We have managed to deflect the threat of a military scenario and to steer the process back to a political channel."

A senior European Union official implied that the US was now out of line, saying: " The question now is whether the Americans will take 'yes' for an answer."

Under the 1991 Gulf war ceasefire terms, UN inspectors must verify the dismantling of Iraqi programmes for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, and longrange missiles.

President Bush, whose stated policy is the ousting of Saddam, last week told the UN General Assembly that "action will be unavoidable" against Iraq unless the world body forced Baghdad to disarm.

Tony Blair had one consolation - a poll showing far greater support for military action in the wake of President Bush's speech.




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[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Correction: do not email this to a friend without filling out a form at their web site. [Didn't mean to copy that far. Freegards....]

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Rush Limbaugh Report on this.

Big Condition Found in Unconditional Inspections
Rush Limbaugh Program | 9/17/02

[Paleo Conservative]

Get the Top 10 Most Popular Sites for "unconditional" Powered by Ask Jeeves 4 entries found for unconditional. un·con·di·tion·al   Pronunciation Key  (nkn-dsh-nl) adj. Without conditions or limitations; absolute: demanded unconditional surrender. uncon·dition·al·ly adv. uncon·dition·ali·ty (-dsh-nl-t) n. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. unconditional \Un`con*di"tion*al\, a. Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. --Dryden. -- Un`con*di\"tion*al*ly, adv. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. unconditional adj 1: not conditional; "unconditional surrender" [ant: conditional] 2: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, flat] 3: not contingent; not determined or influenced by someone or something else Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University unconditional unconditional in InvestorWords Source: InvestorWords, © 2000 InvestorGuide.com, Inc.

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Just what does Saddam not understand about the word "unconditional"?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

ROFL!

[MeekOneGOP]

Saddam has a history of hiding his WMD centers in basements under hospitals and schools, not in military bases. He is particularly fond of having them in his palaces, which are also off limits in this 'unrestrited' offer.

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Rummy, you tell 'em to keep sifting the dirt for Osama. Next up? SADdam ! Let's get him!

[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

Iraqi version of Let's Roll??.....

[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

And don't you find it wierd that i read on FR that Daschle now says war vote will come well before the election in November when just a couple days ago he was saying.It OUGHT to wait until after? Something very strange goin on here.

Let me copy a post to me on another thread about Democrats.....

To: MeeknMing

Democrats are a strange bunch especially their leaders. They complain about politics of personnel destruction when that is how they try to divide the country. They have little pride in America, it seems that the American people serve for their pleasure only. If you don't cotton to the democratic line, you aren't American. They used the surplus for other countries and other people when there was much to do here at home. They take our best technologies and sell them to nations that will use the knowledge against us. They lack an enormous amount of integrity and don't seem to care as they flaunt sleazy ethics and morality in our faces.

We didn't have a government for the people under the Clinton administration, what we had was a Democrats Only need apply type of government and now they are attempting to replace a People's Government with their tired old arguments about an education system they didn't fix in 8 years, a health care program they messed up and couldn't fix in 8 years, a social security system they say needs fixing and did nothing about it in 8 years when in reality that system is fine as long as lawmakers don't spend the money that social security is meant for; they spent 8 years hiring federal workers with no qualifications as long as it meant a democratic vote leaving behind a dumbed down, bloated army of sleazy federal laborers who have plundered their departments of millions in dollars and equipment.

Democrats seem to have no respect, no real base from which true justice can spring, only justice that bends for them. They have no enthusiasm for country/nation, no pride, just the spoils from a rich nation for the DNC. They continue to huddle with shady and corrupt people both here in America and abroad for reasons that only benefit them. They are elitists and exclude the real Americans as they race for the Marxist Utopia they have dreamed about...where individual successes are discouraged in favor of a commune like population. They have learned nothing from failed socialism or failed communism; they still want to live like kings all the while painting a glowing picture of togetherness for the masses who work for them. It is called Slavery, servitude to a few at the top, domination over the people through higher taxes and rules and regulations. Democrats want a Unionized nation/world of bondage and they can surely have it by dividing the country with the deceptive lies they and the press propagandize with daily.

Stand tall Americans and stand firmly for the principals of our Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, both of which are like the fabled Vampires silver cross or spike to the leading democrats, they don't want you to have either; it is these people who would return this country to the quagmire of corruption of the Clinton/Gore/Reno years.

12 posted on 7/30/02 8:42 AM Central by yoe