Iraq

Washington's promise to suspend sanctions within a year or so if Iraq 
agrees to a weapons
inspection programme cannot be believed. Once the inspectorate is in Iraq 
the previous
imperialist process
may be repeated. The inspectorate will always want to become more invasive 
provoking Iraq
into preventing further inspections. This response by Iraq will then be 
used to delay
ending its embargo on Iraq.

At the very least the establishment of a UN inspectorate in Iraq will 
strengthen
Washington's hand allowing it more options. It can if so wishes use the 
inspectorate as a
means to delay or call off the ending of the embargo. It is interesting to 
see that Russia
and China merely abstained. As I understand it they have a veto on the 
Security
Council --just shows how pro-western and weak they are

Warm regards
George Pennefather

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