[MadIvan]

With you at the first, with you to the last.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[AntiGuv]

To be honest, I think 100,000 inspectors could do it - especially if they're U.S. Marines...

[fatrat]

If Saddam bows to the UN demand and co-operates promptly, what is the need for greater numbers of inspectors? If he maintains his refusal to co-operate, how will higher numbers help?

Precisely!!!

[syriacus]

Straw's logic is reassuring. Anti-war protestors say:

Increase the number of inspectors. That should do the trick.

Straw:

In the absence of Iraqi cooperation, even a thousandfold increase in the inspectors' capabilities will not allow us to establish with any degree of confidence that Iraq has disarmed.

The anti-war protestors have thrown away logic. In the end, in order to be certain that Saddam has disarmed, the UN would need thousands of inspectors (and troops to enforce the inspection regime).

In the end, they would be doing the same thing as we want to do now. The major difference being, that under their plan, France and Germany would have a chance to destroy any evidence that is damning to them.

[prairiebreeze]

Haven't I already read this morning that Saddamn won't agree to the idea of UN "peacekeeper" troops?? Thought I'd read that.

Prairie

[Copperhead61]

UK ROCKS !!!

[slimer]

Regards to you, MadIvan. Is Tony Blair still with us in the war on Iraq without U.N. approval or a second resolution? I know his back is against the wall.