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Civilization may face no greater enemy than Saddam Hussein, and yet the major powers allowed Saddam to handle them down. Here, Richard Butler tells the within story of the UN's failed try to stop Saddam and explains the terrible cost of this failure.As the top of UNSCOM, the special United Nations commission that was likely to regularly inspect Iraq for weapons violations, Butler had the authority to shut the Iraqis down if he caught them cheating. But that authority was undermined behind his back. Kofi Annan, in the name of diplomacy, agreed to Hussein's outrageous demands. Russia's foreign minister took secret payoffs from the Iraqis in trade for his support. The French, wanting to do business with the dictator, undercut American efforts to force Hussein to comply. Butler found himself the target of a significant Iraqi and Russian propaganda campaign and, ultimately, alone.
