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<p>ROME, Italy (CNN) --Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said in an interview with CNN on Saturday that it would be "unacceptable" for U.N. weapons inspectors to destroy Iraqi missiles found to violate U.N. limits and dismissed the idea of sending U.N. peacekeepers to Iraq.</p>

At the end of a week of high drama, the world seems more divided than at any time since the Cold War. Now the first casualty of the crisis may be the UN itself It was earlier than usual for President George W Bush. At 9pm on Friday, after a final briefing from his officials in the Oval Office, Bush retired to bed. It had been a difficult, awkward, infuriating 24 hours. A few hundred miles to the north, Dominique de Villepin was enjoying a glass of red wine at the French ambassador to the UN's residence in New York....

I have received several antiwar email petitions in the past few days so I figured I would turn the text around and create my own version of a petition asking people to endorse UN Resolution 1441 by force. Here is the petition that I wrote and would like to get comments or just send it to everyone you know. A coalition of countries led by the United States and England is about to enforce UN Resolution 1441 by force if necessary for non compliance of the Security Council demands. UN Resolution 1441 requires that Iraq destroy it's stocks of biological...

"What we need is not more inspections, what we need is not more immediate access," Powell told the Security Council. "What we need is immediate, active, unconditional, full cooperation on the part of Iraq. What we need is for Iraq to disarm." There was no immediate evidence to suggest that the latest U.N. report had swayed any minds. Those nations that support more inspections repeated their calls for them after the presentation, and those nations that say Saddam is not cooperating said more inspection would be futile.......

efreedomnews         WAR ON TERRORISM - AN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE Iraq "Accepts" UN Resolution: Really?efreedomnewsJonathan RhodesNovember 18, 2002Despite the liberal press' accolades for Saddam the innocent peacemaker, the Iraqi letter to UN General Secretary Kofi Anan  delivered November 13, merely met the November 15 deadline and mostly set the groundwork for later arguments against the validity of the inspectors.Here are some choice excerpts from the letter delivered by Iraqi UN Ambassador Muhammad al-Douri: (underscores by efn) We hereby inform you that we will deal with resolution 1441, despite its bad contents, if it is to be implemented according to the...