NOW GO TO THE U.N.

The Washington Post had it exactly right yesterday. The blizzard of data that Saddam has just unloaded on the U.N. should not be a means for him to buy time. If it amounts to a declaration that he has no weapons of mass destruction, then the administration must determine that as soon as possible and then provide the U.N. with documentation of Saddam’s lies. Then we go to war. This document dump should not be an occasion for more inspections. A false declaration is in itself a casus belli. And any other interpretation will be a sign that Washington has blinked. For the security of all of us, the White House must not go wobbly now.