id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt pst.000043000760 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. United States policy in Iraq : public diplomacy and private policy : hearing before the Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, second session, September 9, 1998 4.F 76/2:S.HRG.105-725 1998 .txt text/plain 3607 223 66 issue new directives, ensuring that UNSCOM and IAEA inspections would receive high priority support throughout our government. of the President's foreign policy team have travelled the world, attempting to keep the heat on Iraq, in demanding that it cooperate A second fact is that, Iraqi intransigence aside, UNSCOM's inspection efforts have continued to make important progress during the time that we were accused of not supporting UNSCOM's inspections. Saddam's provocations are designed with political purposes in mind: to spark a reaction, to divide the Security Council, to isolate the United States, and to diminish support for sanctions. And when Chairman Butler, a short time later, decided to proceed with intrusive inspections, under the leadership of Scott RitIraq's latest refusal to cooperate with UNSCOM is a direct challenge to the Council's authority. For all its bluster, Mr. Chairman, Iraq remains within the strategic box that Saddam Hussein's folly created for it 7 years ago. ./cache/pst.000043000760.pdf ./txt/pst.000043000760.txt