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Wow, Hans Blix is telling that it could be rather
likely that from 1991 there were no WMD's anymore in the Iraqi
landscape... In case this is true (and I think it is) this implies that
the economical sanctions went on far to long and far to harsh. And again,
this is more or less of 'holocaust dimensions' since it is also reported
often that from the sanctions a rough one million people died. And it is
also known what country did put all it's weight upon the enforcing of
those sanctions, that country is America. The Iraqis
could not even buy water pumps (because of the 'evil dual use' brilliant
ideas of the Americans). And now we find the White House complaining that
the infrastructure of Iraq is so lousy, that before Gulf War II only 50%
of the country had electricity & stuff like that!
It isn't hard to imagine that electricity spare parts could be used very
evil and very dual too! The American Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice
spoke words like 'That Saddam was so bad for the Iraqi people while he
never invested in needed infrastructure & bla bla on.' It
is bizarre and it is weird to observe that the government of the most
powerful nation just acts and thinks like a four year old child. And the
memory of that child is no longer than seven days. And it's a jealous
child and a greedy one and the child is spoiled to the bone with military
gadgets... Or am I wrong on this kind of analysis?
On 7 December 2002
the Iraqi report on it's Weapons of Mass
Destruction came in. Remember the 'White House' reaction to
that report? Yes, do you remember?
Meanwhile, the declaration, submitted Dec. 7 by the government of then- Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was quickly dismissed as false and incomplete by the US and Britain, which accused Baghdad of failing to disarm as required by Security Council Resolution 1441.
These charges were later used by Washington and London to justify the invasion of the country in late March.
But more than four months after US President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq, former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said facts presented by Iraq in the 12,000-page document may have been accurate.
"With this long period, I'm inclined to think that the Iraqi statement that they destroyed all the biological and chemical weapons, which they had in the summer of 1991 may well be the truth," Blix told CNN television.
The retired Swedish diplomat, who headed the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission for Iraq, said his inspectors had worked in Iraq for three-and-a-half months in late 2002 and early 2003 and "did not find any smoking gun."
Blix said US and British experts had now been scouring Iraq for weapons of mass destruction for several months and had the opportunity to interrogate members of the Iraqi establishment in their custody.
"I cannot fail to notice that some of the things that they expected us to see that they have turned out not to be real weapons of mass destruction," said the former chief inspector.
US investigators headed by top Central Intelligence Agency weapons analyst David Kay that began its own search for banned Iraqi weapons shortly after the fall of Hussein is to present its preliminary findings later this month.
But US officials indicate it may fail to produce any "smoking gun" as well.
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who met with Kay during his visit to Iraq last week, sought to dampen expectations, telling reporters afterwards, "I'm assuming he would tell me if he had gotten something."
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The Weasel Award is for
Condi; Confront me please!
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