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03 April 2003: "Meanwhile, in Cyprus..."

Newsrack Blog cites (and helpfully provides a translation of) an article in Die Zeit, "Die deutsche Schuld am Krieg" (freely: "The blame due Germany for the war")

The short version is that a number of UNMOVIC inspectors point out that as long as America was threatening imminent war, the Iraqis were letting them do their job; but as soon as the French and the Germans broke ranks in the UNSC and started saying they wouldn't back war, the level of Iraqi cooperation dropped like a trapeze artist with a bad sense of timing. In other words, the vocal Franco-German insistence on a peaceful solution was instrumental in scuppering any chance that war could be avoided.
Even so, that article concludes:

Aber dann doch ein ambivalenter Gedanke, der aus Inspektorenmunde erschreckend hart klingt: „Wie behandelt man ein Krebsgeschwür am besten – mit einem kurzen chirurgischen Eingriff oder mit einer langwierigen Chemotherapie, deren Erfolg zweifelhaft ist?“

Yet, there is still an ambivalent thought, which sounds frighteningly hard from the mouth of an inspector: "How does one best treat a tumour—with a brief surgical intervention or with a long, drawn-out course of chemotherapy, of which the outcome is dubious?"

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