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I suppose if one could say, well, we are not getting anywhere at
all, we do not have any opportunities in dealing with Saddam, let
us just let it ride. But there are real opportunities that are there,
and I do hope the administration takes your words to heart about
aggressively working with those groups to get them in place.
I would also urge you to use the other available tools that are
available to you, militarily and other tools, in a comprehensive
plan, sell that to the region, I mean presenting it to the region,
which I hope Assistant Secretary Indyk is doing this week and next
week, because that is what they want to see from the United
States. That is what they are willing to support.
It is not without a lot of difficulties, and you have got to balance
on many hands. But we have done it before. We probably will not
get this lineup the way we have got it right now again any time
soon.
So I do hope you will work on that aggressively.
Ambassador Jones. Absolutely. I appreciate your comments, Mr.
Chairman, and we are working on it very hard.
Senator Brownback. We will continue to have discussions with
you and continue to watch this issue. If you have other comments
that you want to put into the record, we will be happy to receive
those over the next several days as per the committee rules.
Ambassador Jones. Thank you.
Senator Brownback. We will keep the record open for 5 days
after this if you care to have other things inserted into the record.
Thank you for your very good job, and I hope we can work to-
gether. We really have to get this dangerous man out of power.
Ambassador Jones. We completely agree. Thank you very much,
Mr. Chairman.
Senator Brownback. The subcommittee is adjourned.
[Whereupon, at 2:48 p.m., the subcommittee was adjourned.]
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