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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18297-2003Feb16.html
Rice Calls Security Council's Actions "Appeasement"
(Washington Post) Karen DeYoung - National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday, "Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply" with UN disarmament resolutions, "it plays into the hands" of Hussein. "We need to remind everybody that tyrants don't respond to any kind of appeasement," she said. Senior administration officials have said that the U.S., along with Britain, is drafting a new resolution for submission to the council this week that is likely to set specific disarmament tasks that Iraq must complete before the next council briefing from UN weapons inspectors on March 1. Assuming that Iraq will not satisfactorily comply, officials have indicated that President Bush will then be prepared to make a war decision, with or without council agreement.