Bush: I will have patience with Iraq, the allies will be consulted

WASHINGTON – Faced with an increasingly explicitly critical front towards a war on Iraq, the White House shows signs of availability. The president speaks: “I will be patient and I will try to use every means available, diplomacy, international pressure, perhaps military pressure. I promise that we will continue to consult Congress, friends and allies ». His deputy, Dick Cheney, considered the leader of the “hawks” in the Administration, speaks: “The international community will have to come together and discuss how to deal with this growing threat from Iraq”. But Saddam must be out of the way, Washington is not stepping back on this. But the international community is pressing for something that does not interest the US: the resumption of inspections of Iraqi military “sites”. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan responded to the Iraqi invitation for “technical talks” in Baghdad that Iraq must first send a “formal invitation” to the UN to have inspectors resume work suspended in ’98. Iraq yesterday chose the hard way. Foreign Minister Naji Sabri called inspector Hans Blix one who “succumbed to the blackmail and pressure of the United States” comparing him to the “spy Butler”, his Australian predecessor accused of passing confidential information to Washington. Baghdad now tries to find a relationship with Tony Blair. Evaluating the growing opposition to the conflict that is taking place in Britain – most recently the next archbishop of Catnerbury – Mudhafar Amin, representative of Saddam in London, he appealed because the premier distanced himself from Bush. “No one supports the United States apart from Great Britain,” the diplomat said, but London could choose the path of diplomacy and then the US “would be in great difficulty.” London has so far shown no signs of abating, but yesterday Foreign Undersecretary Mike O ‘Brien said the war “is not imminent or inevitable”. It would have incalculable risks for Europe, there is no clear reason for an intervention, German Foreign Minister Fischer re-launched. Changed the alliance against terrorism, wrote Chancellor Schroeder in an article published in the Bild newspaper. We will not send our soldiers to new missions abroad, he assured, in the same newspaper, his challenger in the September election Stoiber. It would be “against international law,” Russian Foreign Minister Ivanov added. In the days of most diplomatic frenzy the Pentagon generals do not stop. Indeed, according to the Washington Times, after a period of divisions and discussions, the American major states are now “fully agreed” on the military option. Today it will be Saddam’s turn to make his voice heard again. On the occasion of the celebrations for the anniversary of the end of the war with Iran, he will announce to the Iraqis that a new war is upon us. according to the Washington Times, after a period of divisions and discussions, the American major states are now “fully agreed” on the military option. Today it will be Saddam’s turn to make his voice heard again. On the occasion of the celebrations for the anniversary of the end of the war with Iran, he will announce to the Iraqis that a new war is upon us.

August 08 2002