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Blair attacks french german plan { February 25 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64088-2003Feb25.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64088-2003Feb25.html Britain's Blair Attacks French-German Iraq Plan Reuters Tuesday, February 25, 2003; 7:51 AM LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Tony Blair dismissed on Tuesday a Franco-German plan for peaceful disarmament of Iraq, saying it was "absurd" to think U.N. inspectors could find lethal weapons without Baghdad's full cooperation. "They say the time is necessary to search out the weapons," the prime minister told parliament, adding that the proposal assumed the inspectors were a detective agency who could track down banned weapons. "The idea that inspectors could conceivably sniff out the weapons and documentation relating to them without the help of Iraqi authorities is absurd," he said. "They are not a detective agency and even if they were Iraq is a country with a land mass roughly the size of France." Washington, London and Madrid sought U.N. Security Council authorization for warfare by introducing a new draft resolution Monday declaring Iraq had squandered its "final opportunity" to disarm. France and Germany, backed by Russia, quickly circulated a rival proposal that would extend U.N. inspections for at least four months. © 2003 Reuters

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