10A = THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WORLD
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2002
Heard on the Hill
--- Compiled by Aaron Passman
Do you think we should invade Iraq?
"No. I personally think that if we're going to target we should just get Saddam Hussein.
Qaddour
Because when we're bombing Iraq we're bombing all the
innocent people. And since that's what happened to us on Sept.11 and we're really against killing innocent people."
Jomana Qaddour, Overland Park, freshman
"No, I don't think that we should because I
think that our sanctions have already killed enough people And if we just go and
invade
Iraq thinking that
we're
going to
catch Sad-
dam Hussein — which is highly unlikely since we haven't been able to do it any other way then we're just going to kill innocent people." Marwa Ghazali, Overland Park, freshman
Ghazali
"Yes,
Cooke
because I think that sometimes people do things that there
needs to be a particular punishment for, and you can't just keep letting them walk on you, and I think that they do that to us."
"I do not think we should invade Iraq because it's none of
Lauren Cooke, Tulsa, sophomore
Brown
our business."
our business.
Melanie Brown, Kansas City, Mo..
junior
"I think if it's going to be productive, we
should do it. I saw people standing outside the other day saying how horrible war was, but war got us where we are today and war got us our freedom, so could it be that bad really?"
Lauren Freije, Lenexa, freshman
Freije
kansan.com
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U.S., Canada praise dossier about Iraq; others skeptical
The Associated Press
LONDON — Prime Minister Tony Blair's warning about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction appeared to win little support outside Washington, with France and China expressing skepticism.
For weeks, talk about a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq had created widespread interest about Blair's long-promised dossier about Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological arsenal.
In it and his speech to a special session of the House of Commons on Tuesday, Blair said the stockpile was not only growing, but that Saddam was prepared to use such weapons of mass destruction quickly. The intelligence dossier also said Iraq has taken steps to develop nuclear weapons.
Blair, President Bush's top ally, said he wanted U.N. weapons inspectors allowed back into Iraq with no limits on their movements.
But he also supported the U.S. goal of a "regime change" in Baghdad, given how often Saddam has defied the world body's requirements regarding his weapons since losing the Gulf War.
Britain and the United States are two of the five permanent, veto-wielding members of the U.N. Security Council, and they have been trying to win the support of the other three China, France and Russia — for a new
In (his warning) and his speech to a special session of the House of Commons on Tuesday, Tony Blair said the stockpile was not only growing, but that Saddam was prepared to use such weapons of mass destruction quickly.
resolution threatening Iraq for its continued defiance.
But the French and Chinese leaders both sounded skeptical Tuesday about Blair's speech and the dossier in comments they made while attending a summit of European and Asian leaders in Denmark.
French President Jacques Chirac said a war with Iraq was still avoidable if the U.N. Security Council was given a primary role in the crisis. Chirac reiterated there was no need for a proposed Security Council resolution threatening war if Saddam kept U.N. arms inspectors out.
"This is not the view of France," said Chirac, adding that only inspectors could provide the needed proof about Saddam's weapons. "I do not think at all that war is unavoidable."
China's prime minister, Zhu Rongji, warned that any attack against Iraq without a U.N. blessing "will lead to severe consequences."
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Calling for a U.N. mandate in the crisis, he said. "We request that Iraq comply with U.N. resolutions without any preconditions."
Recently, there has been confusion over Russia's position on the need for a new U.N. resolution on Iraq, and that remained the case Tuesday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that British Ambassador Sir Roderic Lyne met with Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanovim in Moscow to discuss Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
During the discussion, Lyne said Blair was presenting the dossier about Iraq to the British parliament and that it would be made available to other countries. But the Russian Foreign Ministry said it did not receive a copy of the report during the meeting, and made no comment by Blair's speech.
As Iraqi officials dismissed the dossier as inaccurate and an excuse for a British and American attack on Baghdad, the White House called its information "frightening" and praised the British prime minister for his strong defense of U.S.-led efforts against Saddam.
In Canada, Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham said Blair's information should be taken seriously.
In Asia, Singapore's former leader Lee Kuan Yew said a U.A.S.-led war against Iraq looked likely, but warned such a campaign would "complicate" ties between Washington and Muslim countries.
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