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Clinton's policy on Iraq is one of getting rid of Saddam Hussein on the one hand and preventing him from building weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them on the other. But how will the U.S. achieve their goals ?
"Force is the only answer Saddam Hussein understands", said American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. "Bombing can and will leave him significantly worse than he is now".
Saddam Hussein 's failure to give inspectors "unimpeded access to any site", as the cease-fire demanded, is in itself an act of war. And if breaking the peace of the1991 Gulf War is not punished, international principles will have no meaning in future. Resisting territorial aggression would be far more difficult. America's strategy is to threaten Saddam Hussein to use military force in the case he wouldn't give the UN Inspection teams access to all the sites.
If Saddam Hussein tries to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction the U.S. will strike him over and over again.
To Kofi Annan's diplomatic efforts the U.S. say: "We don't accept anything that reduces the authority of the USCOM inspection teams". The Americans want a "free and unfettered" access to all the sites.
Another policy the U.S. are following is keeping Saddam Hussein from becoming a threat, regionally and internationally. The U.S. wants to get rid of Saddam Hussein but not of his regime because otherwise it would be impossible to manoeuvre the territorial integrity of the Iraqi state. And balancing Iraq's neighbour states would be far more difficult if Iraq developed into a federation of ethnic states.
America's foreign- policy fantasy is to live in a world without Saddam Hussein. For more than six years the CIA is struggling to turn this dream into reality. But right now it's obvious that Saddam Hussein has taken a permanent residence as a thorn in America's side.