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Rice Calls Security Council's Actions 'Appeasement'

National security adviser Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United Nations Security Council was aiding Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's efforts to weaken international will against his country and compared the reluctance of France and others to support war against him to appeasement of Nazi Germany before World War II.

"Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply" with U.N. disarmament resolutions, Rice said, "it plays into the hands" of Hussein.

"We need to remind everybody that tyrants don't respond to any kind of appeasement," she said. "Tyrants respond to toughness. And that was true in the 1930s and 1940s ...

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