Disarming Iraq The Status of Weapons Inspections: Congressional Hearings

Will open-ended economic sanctions force Saddam Hussein to comply with weapons control agreements he made & has violated regularly since the Gulf War? Testimony by Maj. Scott Ritter, former chief of the Concealment Investigations Unit of the U.N. Special Committee on Iraq, & by Amb. Martin Indyk, Assist. Sec. for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Dept. of State. Ritter's sharp criticism of U.S. policy toward Iraq & the faltering American arms control efforts sparked a long overdue debate on the direction of U.S. policy toward Iraq's rogue regime, its increasingly successful noncompliance with U.N. Security Council resolutions, & the obstruction of U.N. weapons inspections.