Fear of Peace

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/chi-0211100496nov10,0,4815108.



"That's the nightmare scenario: Saddam plays along and manages to seem to get
a clean bill of health," said one Pentagon official who declined to be named.
"Then how do you show that an invasion would be warranted?"
 . . . . .

"Saddam will choose to cooperate, but I would put `cooperation' in quotation
marks, because it's not the same as compliance," said Martin Indyk, a Mideast
expert at the Brookings Institution and a former U.S. ambassador to Israel.
"It means allowing the inspectors to come in, allowing them to do their work,
making it look as if he's going along with the resolution. He might even fess
up to some [weapons of mass destruction] capabilities to give him some
credibility.

"But in essence, what he will be doing here is not making a fundamental
decision to disarm, but rather making a calculated decision to play out the
clock."