Washington insists U.N. resolutions in effect since the Gulf War provide all the authorization needed for an attack.

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For more than a decade we have tried everything diplomacy, sanctions, inspections, limited military action except war to convince Saddam to keep the promises he made, and the U.N. endorsed, to end the Gulf War.

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The gulf widened because of aggressive new tactics used by the N.

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