Ken Bacon
Ken Bacon
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Given what we have seen, the active redeployment of (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's) air defenses, the high state of alert, we think he is interested in much more than diplomacy, that he has ulterior motives to moving these around and we need to be prepared.
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If the summoned vessel takes flight, she may be pursued and brought to by forcible measures if necessary,
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He has not been able to rebuild his military, in part because of our containment, but also in large part because of the United Nations' embargo on Iraq, which has prevented him from buying the military equipment he would like to buy.
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He wanted to make sure that no decisions were made by default, and that everybody was aware of the type of planning, and potentially training, that would be required for a future movement of forces.
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He delayed for a long while participating in the oil-for-food program, which has actually been one of the hopeful and helpful measures that the U.N. has brought to Iraq, allowing it to import more food in return for the oil it sells,
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He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.
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He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is the type of planning timeframe that would be necessary in order to position NATO to do that,
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He is no longer a threat to his neighbors and is not seen as a threat to his neighbors. That's largely because of the containment that we have carried out.
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He fires quite a lot of AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) and missiles at us
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There is no consensus in NATO today for a ground invasion force.
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There is extensive movement in Iraq's air defense system. We assume that this movement is for two reasons. Part of it is defensive, so that it is harder for us to target ... air defense missiles, particularly SA-6 missiles, but also SA-2 missiles and ROLAND missiles, and we also think that some of it is offensive.
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Some of this involves cutting out clutter on the Internet and focusing Web sites so that they provide useful amounts of information without overwhelming users.
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By international law, the Geneva Convention applies to all periods of hostilities.
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But I think this is an area where pressure from the public is having an impact on what our government is doing.