U.S. reaffirms March 17 deadline for Saddam to disarm

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | March 12, 2003

[HAL9000]

Iraq: the United States reaffirms with UNO the cut off date of March 17

The ambassador of the United States in the United Nations reaffirmed Wednesday in camera with his colleagues of the Security Council that "the limiting date of March 17 always held" for the disarmament of Iraq, according to several diplomats having taken part in the travaux.Un diplomatic of a country opposed to the draft Resolution anglo-hispano-American giving the green light to the war in Iraq declared that "Negroponte (the American ambassador) said that the date of March 17 tenait".Pour its share, a diplomat of a country co-signatory of the resolution declared: "the cut off date is the 17 and we let us not move about it".

[PhiKapMom]

FYI! Looks like the United States is not blinking at all!

[PhiKapMom]

All I can say is that their translation is different! Thanks for posting!

[The Wizard]

rugged translation but I think I get the message....

We're coming.

[bannie]

Still voting for Ides of March.

[GraniteStateConservative]

A bump for resolve.

[Dog]

Mom......I'll believe it when i see it..

Maybe Tony will try a 12 step program next time for Saddam..

[goldstategop]

Its put up or shut time at Turtle Bay.

[Dog]

Give it an hour .....we will see another article claiming we are flexible on the March 17th deadline.

News flash... we have recieved postive response from Guinea,Cameroon and Angola.........what the hell is wrong with us.....we don't grovel!!

[PhiKapMom]

You know -- I hate to say it but I agree with you.

I am tired of Blair and his appeasement to 3rd world countries to get their vote and roping the United States into his "save his job!" campaign.

I am ready for the United States military to be in charge and whoever isn't at the starting gate, get out of our way! Enough of the UN quagmire!

[mrb1960]

Whoever translated this must have a low battery in their hearing aid.

I get the "gist" of what's being said and I hope it holds true. I want to see this thing done and over with as soon as possible.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The news has just got consistently better all afternoon, evening. Bush is in completely different mode now, it appears he has decided that the "game" is truly "over". He's showing that Titanium Backbone to everyone now.

[mhking]

No more delays. Let's roll.

[PhiKapMom]

News flash... we have recieved postive response from Guinea,Cameroon and Angola.........what the hell is wrong with us.....we don't grovel!!

I am with you 100%!!!!!

[PhiKapMom]

I think this started yesterday afternoon with Rumsfeld -- he didn't make a mistake in that briefing about the UK -- believe he fired the warning shot that we would go it along with or without the UK and the UN.

Believe the Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz contingent now have the President's ear. Can imagine when he saw the British proposal about Saddam on TV, he reacted like we did. It was obvious this morning that the Brits went with these proposals on their own. It seemed to catch the WH off guard from all news accounts.

I will be so glad when Pres Bush makes the speech and issues the ultimatum!

[Dog]

This thing is becoming a Benny Hill skit.

Must go that extra mile for peace.. Give Saddam a 6 point test..

He must go on TV and promise never to be a bad boy ever again..

Then we get our Neville Chamberlain moment...

This is a freaking joke..

[Peach]

The vote needs to happen this week regardless of the votes or we will have lost so much momentum, the entire thing will fall apart. Time for everyone to put it on the table and let the chips fall where they may. At this rate, we'll be as irrelevant as the UN! (just kidding)

[PhiKapMom]

I agree with you -- time to vote and get it over with! Then we do what we have to do and if the Brits don't want to participate, fine with me since their Ambassador calls it an illegal action if the UN doesn't sanction it!

[mhking]

This thing is becoming a Benny Hill skit.

Now that you mention it, Blixxie kind of looks like Benny...

[Terry Mross]

Tony's six point plan is for one reason: He knows Saddam will never go on TV and grovel but it will show just how stubborn the man is and it will show just how useless the UN is.