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1. Iraq has persistently and deviously failed to comply with United Nations' resolutions relating to its acquisition and possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and other terms of the 1991 Gulf War armistice.

The Security Council has passed 17 resolutions on these subjects, starting with Resolution 687 of 1991 and Resolution 1441 which passed 15-0 last fall. Saddam Hussein's Iraq has flouted them all. Lieber calls this "Iraq's record of systematic deception and noncompliance" (15). American Secretary of State Colin Powell recently outlined to the Council the unscrupulous methods used by Iraq to avoid compliance with 1441.

2. Iraq represents a clear and present danger to the security interests of the region, to the United States and to other nations.

According to Remick, Saddam's "territorial aggression is a matter of record, his nuclear ambitions are clear" (31). Under Saddam, Iraq has invaded Iran and Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia. It used poison gas against Iran during the 1980-1987 Iran-Iraq War and against the Kurds. When Saddam's son-in-law defected to Jordan in the mid-90s, the world learned that the UN inspectors (then called UNSCOM) had failed to detect Iraq's biological and chemical program just as the IAEA in the late 1980s under Dr. Hans Blix failed to realize

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inment of Iraq could have been achieved by strengthening the inspections regime. Maureen Doud of the New York Times said: "everyone knows Saddam is lying. The question is whether it's worth a war" (4). French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin recommended tripling the number of inspectors on the ground and utilizing more intrusive overhead air surveillance techniques. According to Dobbs, "in the French view, it is very difficult to do much mischief as long as the U.N. inspections are taking place, and he is 'in the box'" (Dobbs A 25). The destruction by Iraq of scores of its Al-Samoud missiles was hailed by Dr. Blix as real disarmament. Dr. Al-Baraday opined that IAEA had found no persuasive evidence that Iraq has any nuclear weapons or means of delivering same. The open question, of course, is how long such progress could be sustained if coalition forces were withdrawn from the region and the pressure taken off Iraq. 3. A majority of governments and peoples in the world have been opposed to a war with Iraq. The United States has been unable to muster a majority in the Security Council in favor of a second resolution explicitly authorizing war. Schell cited the following polling percentages against such a war: Italy 85
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