UN inspectors plan their return<\/a>, is how much Iraq tries to get away with. How well have they hidden things, since the spotlight focused again? How underground are their labs? How cleaned out are the likely targets of inspections? How many games can they play with a possible hair-trigger response? <\/p>\nAnd, knowing about the response if Iraq does play games, how willing will the UN inspection crew be to actually report non-compliance? And, given that, how eager will the US be to provide intelligence info this time out to the UN, not knowing how it will be used?<\/p>\n
More interesting times ahead. And the longer Iraq can drag things out, the more difficult it becomes to keep up the pressue on him.<\/p>\n
Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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