http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...agency_iraq_15
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The head of the U.N. nuclear agency will tell the Security Council on Monday that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) has done a "quite satisfactory" job of cooperating with inspectors in some areas but that they need more time to complete their search.
"Their report card will be a `B' ? quite satisfactory," he said.
Later, seeking to qualify his comments, Gwozdecky said the "B" is only for responding to inspectors' questions and requests for information.
"We're not in the position of issuing grades ? that's for the Security Council to do," he said. "We just report the facts, and our goal is the disarmament of Iraq. They're not coming forward to help us. They're not bringing forward original documentation."
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Give me a break here. A "B" grade? The powerless UN is afriad to say anything bad about Hussein. Are they forgetting that Iraq has barred inspectors from searching military bases? They can't search the most obvious location of the weapons! They can't get interviews with the scientists outside of Iraq, and we all know about Sadaam's torture, these guys will be killed if Sadaam thinks they squealed. Of course they won't talk. Give them US citizenship, then bring them back and they'll spill their guts. And then again, this "cooperation" includes all these chemical warheads they "forgot" were there, and they still won't say where the ton of VX gas, and numerous other unacounted-for biological agents are. That deserves a B? Closer to a D.
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The White House dismissed the favorable assessment, but a senior U.S. official said the Bush administration was considering agreeing to let the inspections go on longer as a means of reassuring anxious European allies following a rift that broke out this week with France and Germany.
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Welcome to Europe. When push comes to shove, Germany and France will jump on board. And you know the second the US has won the war France will jump in and try to get good oil prices.
Bush needs to push this in his State of the Union, action needs to be taken soon. Iraq has a decade of practice avoiding weapons detectors, you don't think they know how to hide their weapons? They've done it for years! It isn't the best time for a war with Iraq, considering the oil problem in Venezuela, but the more Bush waits, the more people are afriad to invest and it's hurting our economy. We have more than enough reasons to go to war with Iraq, just go already.