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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42097-2002Sep19.html
Brinkmanship With Baghdad
(Washington Post) Jim Hoagland - Getting Saddam Hussein's signature on a document that mandates "anytime, anywhere, without notice" inspections is a necessary - but not sufficient - condition for resuming and cleaning up the rigged, cat-and-mouse game that inspections have always been. The hunt for the equipment and scientists the Iraqi dictator relies on to build a covert nuclear bomb is the urgent priority of resumed inspections. There will be no hiatus in U.S. military planning and preparation.