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Tuesday, January 14, 2003
Three kings...a bunch of peasants..and one jester
Michael Kelly, who loves war even more than his own children, is getting downright depressed that the Warrior President and his poodle may not start the war on time for Kelly's Armageddon pool at work.
On Iraq, are things going, as a British prime minister once warned an American president against, wobbly?
With less than two weeks to go to a Jan. 27 deadline for a report on whether Iraq is complying with the U.N. Security Council resolution that Baghdad fully disclose and dismantle its program of weapons of mass destruction, the chief U.N. weapons inspector, Hans Blix, tells The Post that, as he sees it, the report due that day is just a little old interim sort of thing and will mark "the beginning of the inspection and monitoring process, not the end of it."
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The current American president's only stalwart, the current British prime minister, stands with his party against him and with only 13 percent of the British public willing to support U.S. and British action against Iraq absent U.N. approval. Secretary of State Colin Powell takes this moment to declare that "to characterize Prime Minister Blair as a poodle is an absolutely absurd and silly charge."
Then Kelly lets us know what he thinks of the same public opinion that he wants to influence:
But I don't think this will be of any more consequence than were all the now-forgotten fits and starts that preceded the first war against Hussein.
Now, as then, only three people really matter as to the outcome: the Iraqi dictator, the American president and the British prime minister
So what about public opinion regarding a war that the UN won't support? The American public are far from sold on the idea. The British public (13%!) say "no thanks". The Iraqi public don't have a choice, but one would think that they don't want to die while being liberated by American bombs.
As President George Bush once so eloquently said, "Who cares what you think?"
As Michael Kelly says, "Let someone else roll...I've got a deadline to meet."
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