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| Iraq still says 'no' to UN weapons inspections |
| 2002-07-06 |
| Iraq failed to reach an accord with the United Nations on Friday to resume weapons inspections after intensive talks involving Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri. The two-day meeting was the third high-level session on the arms inspectors this year. "They didn't say yes," Annan told reporters after the talks, which he called constructive, ended on Friday. "I would have preferred more," he said, adding: "I cannot force a decision." I'd prefer to be thirty again, and to have my hair back, too. This is a dance, a method of racking up diplopoints that can be traded in for International Support® which is expected to avert hostilities. The idea is to natter and negotiate and wring every possible concession from the likes of Kofi up until three minutes before launch time, and then magnanimously accept a better deal than could have been gotten six months prior. The problem with this scenario is that Sammy is notoriously bad at figuring when the three minutes actually begins. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |