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Bush poised to declare Iraq in violation of resolution but war not imminent WASHINGTON (AP) - President George W. Bush's national security advisers are recommending that he declare Iraq in violation of a United Nations disarmament order, administration officials say, but they do not consider the indictment an immediate trigger for war. Instead, advisers expect Bush to chart a slightly more patient course that would push the prospects for military action into the new year. The president was to hear from his advisers as early as Wednesday on options available to the United States in response to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's contention that he has no weapons of mass destruction. At issue is a 12,000-page weapons declaration required under the U.S.-backed UN disarmament resolution. Administration officials have privately said for days that Bush considers the declaration laughably inadequate. There has been some discussion inside the administration about immediately declaring Iraq in "material breach" of the resolution, which could provide Bush with what he considers legal justification for going to war. However, the prospect was not seriously discussed Tuesday in a meeting of Bush's national security team, according to two senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday night. Instead, advisers are ready to recommend that Bush allow the weapons inspectors to go ahead with their work while using the declaration's omissions to increase public pressure on both the United Nations and Iraq, the officials said. Bush is expected to publicly make his case against the declaration on Friday, assuming he signs off on the recommendations, officials said. But the Friday time frame could change, they cautioned. The strategy gaining most support on Bush's team is to increase pressure on UN weapons inspectors to seek interviews with Iraqi weapons scientists outside of Iraq, a prerogative given to the international body under the resolution. Bush believes Saddam will resist such demands, giving the United States a case for "material breach" that U.S. allies and the American public may find more justified than hastier action, the officials said. On the other hand, if Iraq surprises Bush and turns over the scientists, U.S. officials believe the witnesses would provide evidence that could be used against Saddam, officials said. The strategy under consideration would, as a matter of course, mean military force could not be contemplated for several weeks. The White House has said repeatedly it has evidence of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs, but it has yet to make any public. The officials said Bush's team has several significant problems with the Iraqi document, including its failure to explain what happened to Saddam's chemical and biological weapons program after 1998. The administration also takes issue with Saddam's denial of any nuclear weapons programs inside Iraq, the officials said. Bush has said repeatedly he is willing to use force against Saddam, if necessary, and without the United Nations, if necessary. Many U.S. allies, and critics of Bush in the United States, say they fear he is looking for any excuse to wage war. © The Canadian Press, 2002

I read a funny news piece once about some dude out walking his mutt and got mugged by someone who musta thought the little bag he was carrying in one hand was his stash or something. "Man, this shit is shit!"

Ya, I hear the guys on the garbage truck hate it when they get a trashcan full of dogshit from "walkies". They dump the can into the truck then when it does the compactor thing, the baggies full of shit eject out thru the sides in a high pressure spray

Magic mushrooms grew on Grandma's lawn. True story, 1977, I was being babysat while Mom went shopping and Grandma would stop reading me story and go outside to chase the hippies (there were still a few around) out of her yard.

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But will the Canucks be able to keep up the blistering pace (10 games above .500!!!!) now they have 3 injured players -accounting for almost 20% of team ice time?????????????????????????????????????????? ITS NAIL BITING TIME NOW FOLKS!!!

robBob we are gonna spray all over this thread while you gone. When you come back we are gonna be talking about faked moon landings and which shoe to wear on which foot while sending Carnival Cracks. So, if we didnt have cow farms what would the magic mushrooms grow on????

Belay gloves are one of the three warning signs (could also be huge tape gloves at sport crag) , the other two are: rack of gear all color coordinated and all draws same length and same manufacturer; and, loud talking mustached mullet guy with pudgy girlfriend, with dude loudly giving false beta to everyone in view& name dropping ("Alan Watts told me at the 3rd bolt you should use your left pinky in the pocket") an then yelling at his belay bunny for hosing him on every clip as he seiges a 5.9 sport route.

Raise Horse not Hog. The world needs Horsecock

This thread jumped the shark. It is dead, dead, dead. Only trask survives as a lone spray bearer.

Hey RobBOb I am a Canadian water resource specialist with a MSc, and I too say you are out to lunch. The point made about disease control and water contamination MAY NOT be the issue for the environmental lobby but is sure as hell IS the issue with regard to public health. Illegal dumping& disposal of manure from the hog, beef and chicken farms is the leading cause of aquifer contamination in the Langley and Sumas-Aldergrove (the latter a cross-boundary so it is on US side too) aquifers. (How did the government I currently work for respond to this? They laid off the colleague of mine responsible for ticketing offenders and enforcing violations as soon as they took office cause the farmers paid for the local MLA's campaign.) Walkerton, ON - 35 people dead of gastrointestinal disease after groundwater overloaded by manure dumping develops fecal coliform levels 1000X higher than the projected level (which was what the water treatment level was designed for). This stuff could make you sick just from washing your hands in it let alone drinking it. North Battleford, Sask: 21 people dead, again, treatment system fails when overloaded with pathogen levels thousands of times higher than what the system chlorination levels were designed to treat. Again directly linked (forensic pathology, microbe in dead humans DIRECTLY TRACED to be same strain as microbes found in upstream hog and beef farms) to untreated manure dumping into suurface water. In some areas of Europe, where population density in agricultural areas is much higher, all animal manure is now treated the same as human sewage, and chemically treated before discharge. For instance, the Danes pump all animal manure directly into purpose built sewage lines (Im not sure if they treat these at the same plants as they do human or if they built separate plants too).

Only the standard routes have been climbed on these pks Stefan. Jordan are you referring to the strangely named Kumkan Peak? you should get the TRIM map before you start talking about the real goods. NTS for this area is wildly inaccurate, or at least, generous when it comes to missing contours.

You will need about 5 avatars rating...cause all mine rated me 5 out of 5

Wasnt The Thing thawed out of the Antarctic ice too?

I guess the Bible is not one of them, you heathen.

Do you get cheap Tuesday rate?

What about Buckaroo Banzai? Hey Jon is your squirrel the same squirrel from Fark.com or what? I just heard about that site a few days ago

Yeah no kidding, those must be the same guys that Imasco and Philip Morriss fired once the tobacco lawsuits came in or what? Anybody on left or right can trot out some pet scientists & it means little. But how many scientists are there in the world and what is the split then? 90%/10%? Hell Thabo Mbeki has been able to find doctors who say that HIV does not cause AIDS and look what that, translated to government policy, is doing to his country (=South Africa for Americans who wouldnt otherwise know)

the truth about when it starts Midnight Tonight!!! Will the 4 brave snaffles destroy the mighty Horsecock of Darkness on the slopes of flaming Mt Si or not

TWO TOWERS!!!!

Dick Culbert climbed Siwash Rock (5.6 ish) with skis on.If he can climb up maybe Special can climb down? Special is strrrrong.....

my next avatar name will be "5-year stu"

nasa is cool. look at the pics of happy face crater on mars

350m or so? i put the map away, im actually on a conference call right now

Starting to snow in Lillooet next few days