Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein showed "no change of attitude" despite Turkish warnings that U.N. weapons inspectors should be allowed to return to avoid possible U.S. military action. Ecevit said he had written to Saddam earlier in the week telling him Ankara sought to avert the threat of U.S. attacks, but success depended on "removal of the obstacles before the U.N. inspections on armaments."Anybody have a good reason why Iraq is a geopolitical necessity? They certainly have done their best over 2 decades to show they certainly aren't an economic or diplomatic necessity. Balancing the Iranians in the Gulf is a pretty thin excuse of a reason when the mullahs have done their best to run Iran into the ground over the same time frame.
Posted by Tom Roberts 2/9/2002 12:49:37 PM |