Since everybody else was too lazy to post, I'll say it: Saddam agreed to let inspectors in unconditionally.
*Xev waits quietly for the moment in which she can say "I told you morons so"* Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Could be that he's bowing to international pressure... could also be that he's now had enough time to clean out the house prior to the landlord's inspection.
My Ploy Is Bigger Than Your Ploy! Over and over in the news, U.S. officials dismiss the offer as a ploy designed to derail a new U.N. Security Council resolution that would force Saddam Hussein to abandon illicit weapons programs or face U.S.-led military action. If the overture of Iraq is a ploy, what could be said of Bush's wooden recitation at the UN? Perhaps it is merely a ploy. But if we really want stability in the region, why turn down the chance of a long-term multi-national presence right there in Iraq? That’s what we would need after a war, and here we are getting it without a war; without getting people killed. Peace. _____________ Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him. -- King Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934-1993)
Goofyfish: Of course we all know the true reason for this. The prime US objective is not to make Iraq 'safe' but to install a new government. Nor does, in my view, the US want stability in the region - at least not right now. The US wants to reshape the region entirely. Make it nice and safe for Israel and oil companies in this unipolar world. Essentially what has happened is the US has strided up to Iraq with a huge gun in its holster and thrown down a knife telling Iraq to pick it up. They haven't yet because they know as soon as they do the US will shoot. 'It was self defence, he had a knife...'
Saddam is once again buying time. His butt is on the block. He would not have agreed to inspectors unless he knew he had run out of time. I would imagine we will see the same things we saw before. Inspectors arrive at a site and they can not get in. They are delayed while the weapons are moved out the back gate. This was seen time and again the last time.
The game playing has already begun: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=699123&in_review_text_id=672203