Disarming Iraq

Tuesday, February 18, 2003

As much as the feuding members of the U.N. Security Council might like Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei to settle the question of war or peace with Iraq, these two mild-mannered civil servants can't make that fateful judgment. All they can do, which they did again last week, is to tell the Security Council how their inspection efforts are faring. So-so was the answer. It's up to the Security Council members -- especially the veto-wielding quintet of the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- to decide whether Iraq is disarming.

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