I JUST KNOW THERE'S A PONY IN THERE SOMEWHERE:

Analysis: US moderates eclipsed on Iraq: A tough UN resolution may be prelude to military action (Jon Leyne, 28 September, 2002, BBC)

The tough resolution proposed by the Americans on Iraq will have great difficulty getting through the Security Council.

Already, Russia, France and China have voiced their objections.

If this resolution is passed in anything like the form proposed by the Americans, it will be seen as an ultimatum to the Iraqis.

It is difficult to see how the Iraqis could accept these terms.

So it will be an challenge designed to lead to war. [...]

Once again, it looks as if the moderates in Washington have lost out.

Boy, people just don't get it, huh? There was never any chance of the U.S. supporting a resolution that called for anything less than Saddam Hussein effectively surrendering control over his own country. And, if anyone has been listening to him at all, Colin Powell, who one would assume is the imagined leader of the American "moderates", uses the phrase "regime change" more often than a Valley girl says "like".
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 28, 2002 1:59 PM