-Caveat Lector- http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1295742002
""" Delay and defiance will invite the severest consequences. """ >>> So what's Shrub talking about here? Delay? Is that Tom? De fiance? is Tom betrothed or is that some other manly person who's out to show his gonadoidalism by sending other peoples' kids off to war agian? Shore wish Dubsie would quit usin' them trickin' woids. A<>E<>R <<< Admiral's forecast infuriates US hawks FRASER NELSON THEIR tone could not have been more different. In Prague, the upbeat US president, George Bush, was ratcheting up the pressure on Saddam Hussein and again threatening military action. In London, Britain’s chief of defence staff, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, was giving a gloomy analysis of his troops’ morale as they filled in for Britain’s striking firefighters. While his political masters confirmed that Britain had been approached to join any coalition against Iraq, Admiral Boyce appeared to cast doubt on his forces’ ability to carry that fight. Speaking ahead of today’s NATO summit, Mr Bush told Saddam Hussein he would be entering his “final stage” if he denied having weapons of mass destruction and said he would build a “coalition of the willing” to disarm Iraq. Mr Bush said: “We now call an end to that game of deception and deceit and denial. Saddam Hussein has been given a very short time to declare completely and truthfully his arsenal of terror. “Should he again deny that this arsenal exists, he will have entered his final stage with a lie, and deception this time will not be tolerated. Delay and defiance will invite the severest consequences.” The White House said the United States had begun contacting about 50 countries to assess their willingness to join a coalition against Iraq. Bush linked disarming Iraq with NATO’s future relevance, comparing the perceived threat from Saddam to the Cold War challenges that the allies had faced down, and to the failure to oppose aggression against Czechoslovakia by Hitler’s Germany that had led to World War Two. As Mr Bush was talking tough, chief weapons inspectors were returning to Cyprus after a two-day trip to Iraq. Describing their talks with Iraqi officials as “business-like”, they said the discussions had set the stage for a decisive new round of weapons inspections starting next week. “The world and the Security Council want assurances that Iraq has no more weapons of mass destruction,” the chief of the UN inspection team, Hans Blix, said. A dispute over visits to Saddam’s “presidential sites” contributed to the breakdown of the UN inspections regime in 1998. The new resolution demands unfettered access, access which Mr Blix said the Iraqis were willing to give. “That is settled by the resolution,” Mr Blix replied when asked whether the issue had arisen in his Baghdad talks with the Iraqi foreign minister, Naji Sabri, and other Iraqis. “It wasn’t even discussed. They accept that.” A senior Iraqi politician said the Baghdad government will co-operate fully with the inspectors, but he warned the Americans not to place spies on the inspection teams. Admiral Boyce’s unexpected intervention yesterday will almost certainly infuriate the Americans as much as it will Downing Street. Last year, at the height of the war on terrorism, Admiral Boyce was reported to have annoyed Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, by predicting that the fighting in Afghanistan could last for years. In a speech to the Royal United Services Institute Admiral Boyce said that strategies of the United States and Britain would not necessarily be identical. “Both the UK and United States wish to promote regional stability, but our perspectives of global and regional stability have been distorted by the focus on fighting terrorism,” he said. “We have to consider whether we wish to follow the United States’ single-minded aim to finish Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda; and/or to involve ourselves in creating the conditions for nation-building or reconstruction as well.” It was important not to “identify our enemy just in the human form of Osama bin Laden – this is not a high tech 21st century posse in the new Wild West.” A former submariner and a naval officer for more than 40 years, he was reported to have clashed with Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, over the decision to scrap the Navy’s Sea Harriers earlier than planned. He also risked controversy by expressing reservations about US plans for a national missile defence system. they deemed as his over-cautious approach to the war on international terrorism. Admiral Boyce became first sea lord and chief of naval staff in October 1998 before being appointed chief of the defence staff in February 2001. The announcement this summer that Admiral Boyce would be standing down next March after just over two years in the job fuelled the rumours of behind-the- scenes disagreements with ministers. Yesterday’s honest reflection on the state of morale of his troops is unlikely to make ministers’ think twice about consider extending his contract. ©2002 scotsman.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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