The Washington Post, August 15th, 1998
FROM THE START last February there was reason to fear that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's deal with Saddam Hussein was nothing but a charade. Saddam Hussein would pretend to let U.N. inspectors do their jobs, and U.N. inspectors would go through their motions. Shackled by cumbersome new rules, and without the benefit of military pressure, they would find nothing. This arrangement would allow the United States to disassemble its armada in the Persian Gulf without embarrassment. It would also allow Saddam Hussein to maintain his capability to field biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. ...
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