"A vegetable is by nature a carrot."

Poor choice of vegetable - ref to Prat Kinnock and his fellow Commissioners of the EU. Snails are fish and carrots are fruit - if you believe them.

The selection of the wording of the leaflet may well have something to do with translation. Kind of like the drug company marketing headache tablets in the middle east - read left to right, picture one, man with headache in terrible pain, picture two, man seen taking tablets, picture three, man with headache gone, all smiles. That sequence read right to left protrays a completely different story.

"But can anyone explain why it wouldn't be a good idea to set about getting inspectors in to Iraq at this point? Why hang about until some new resolution can get hammered out or not? "

Ask Mr. Blix - I think he's covered this question.