Iraq - Be Careful What You Ask
Be careful what you ask for, ‘cause you might just get it. An old adage.
The Bush administration has based its Iraq policy strictly in terms of regime change, weapons of mass destruction potential and al Qaeda support. Now, it appears that those misnamed chickens may well come home to roost.
Although it's gotten almost no US news coverage, the word out of Russia is that a Russian envoy, former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, made a quick trip to Saddam Hussein in late February to insist he cooperate fully with UN arms inspectors.
If the Russian reports are to be believed, Saddam not only agreed unconditionally, but offered further to scrap his missile program and invite UN peacekeepers into Iraq to back up their weapons inspectors. An international police force would stay on in Iraq until the work is fully complete.
Whoa, there goes the WMD requirement.
But in a further concession, Saddam has reportedly asked Vladimir Putin to tell the Americans and Brits that he is ready to invite both B…