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[David Morris]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31245-2001Oct21.html

Paying the Piper for Peace
By Fred Hiatt
Monday, October 22, 2001; Page A19

Just four years ago -- in September 1997 -- a U.N. inspector grabbed a 
briefcase from two Iraqi officials running out the back door of their 
laboratory building in Iraq. Inside the case she found reagents used for 
testing biological weapons such as anthrax and documents about Saddam 
Hussein's secret biological weapons program. When other inspectors tried to 
follow up by visiting the headquarters of the agency referred to in the 
documents, Iraqi guards blocked them at gunpoint. The inspections were never 
completed.

It was just one episode in the long and ultimately failed U.N. effort to 
enforce its own resolution that Iraq rid itself of nuclear, chemical and 
biological arms. The resolution was agreed to by world powers as a condition 
of cease-fire after Iraq lost the Gulf War a decade ago. But when Iraq 
reneged on its commitment and began frustrating the United Nations by force 
and deception, those same powers lacked the will to insist. France, Russia 
and China were more interested in commerce with Iraq. The United States had 
no stomach for another fight. Other things came to seem more important.


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