Not Your Sweetie

Dueling Resolutions at the UN

BERLIN AP - French President Jacques Chirac
announced a step-by-step disarmament plan for
Iraq sponsored by France, Germany and Russia
on Monday as part of a concerted European
drive to dissuade the U.N. Security Council
from backing military action.

The proposal, at
odds with a draft resolution by the United
States, Britain
and Spain declaring Iraq in violation of its
obligations to
disarm under a resolution adopted in
November, asks
the inspectors to set a "rigorous timeline"
to dismantle and
destroy its biological, chemical, nuclear
and missile
weapons programs.