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George Bush crosses Rubicon - but what lies beyond?
(Robert Fisk, The Independent, 09 November 2002)
The Rubicon is a wide river. It was deep for Caesar's legions. The Tigris river will be more shallow – my guess is that the first American tanks will be across it within one week of war – but what lies beyond? . . . For Rome, civil war followed. And, be assured, civil war will follow any American invasion of Iraq. "Cheat and retreat will no longer be tolerated," Mr Bush told us yesterday – forgetting, of course, UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338 which call for Israel to withdraw from the Arab territories occupied during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. . . . The BBC, with CNN and all the other television networks, was last night billing Resolution 1441 as "the last chance" for Saddam Hussein. In fact, it is the "last chance" for the United Nations. As the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, said, the road ahead will be "difficult and dangerous". He can say that again. . . . It allows the Security Council to discuss non-compliance without restraining the United States from attacking Baghdad. . . . Washington wants a UN fig leaf for a war on Iraq and is willing to go through an inspection process in the hope that Iraq obstructs it. Mr Annan was talking yesterday about the "unique legitimacy of the UN". But the cruel dictator of Baghdad cares as much about that as President Bush.

posted by Lorenzo 4:49 PM