A time for war

IRAQ | The case against Saddam | Mindy Belz

In the fog of war plain words travel best. And it is time to say it is time to make war on Iraq. Even before Sept. 11, evidence mounted for the United States to make a case for going to war against Saddam Hussein.

The regime has been in violation of a UN agreement it signed in 1996 to allow inspection of sites with potential to produce chemical and biological weapons. Saddam agreed to the inspections as a condition for resuming oil exports after the Gulf War.

This month oil exports are running above 8 million barrels a week; at the same time, a U.S. spy satellite spotted a 60-truck convoy entering a known biological weapons facility. But Saddam Hussein has barred all weapons inspectors since 1998. Talk now of resuming inspections is irrelevant. Think of Neville Chamberlain negotiating with the Third Reich as the tanks rolled into Poland.

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August 24, 2002, Vol. 17, No. 32

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