Not Your Sweetie

Russia Says No Proof Saddam Is Threat to U.S.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - France and Germany said on Wednesday it was illegal for the Bush
administration to depose Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Russia maintained there was no proof
Iraq posed a threat to the United States.

With war against Iraq inevitable, five foreign ministers spoke at a U.N. Security Council meeting called to
hear a report by chief U.N. inspector Hans Blix, who expressed disappointment his inspections were
curtailed after only 3 1/2 months.

But their statements were more subdued than in past such meetings, an apparent recognition that the
Bush administration was not listening.

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said no U.N. Security Council resolution authorized the use of force
against Iraq outside the U.N. Charter and "not one of them authorizes the violent overthrow of the
leadership of a sovereign state."