CNN is report­ing that the Pen­ta­gon is detect­ing prepa­ra­tions on the part of Iraq to use chem­i­cal weapons against U.S. troops. The DoD says it doesn’t know where the CW are, but that it will destroy them if it can find them.
Also, the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan instructed the its 135 or so inspec­tors to bug out from Iraq. CNN is report­ing the U.N. can get them out in about two hours. Rumors swirl of a Bush announce­ment tonight. War tomor­row or Wednes­day?
*UPDATE 10:09 AM EST:* Sir Jeremy Green­stock, British Ambas­sador to the United Nations, that the res­o­lu­tion will be pulled and “we will not pur­sue a vote.”. The diplo­matic process is over. Green­stock crit­i­cized France specif­i­cally, but didn’t men­tion it by name. The U.S. and U.K. will pur­sue their own meth­ods of dis­ar­mamemt.
U.S. ambas­sador to the U.N., John Negro­ponte, called Iraq in “mate­r­ial breach” of 1441.