I remember reading somewhere about that guy's credibility, but anyway, the point is that if there was real proof, the UN would not need inspectors.
No Zonder... they would need investigators, not inspectors..
The inspectors were merely for the purpose of insuring that Saddam had accounted for and destroyed all of those WMDs he claimed that he didn't have.. Not to find them..
That's like a probation court that has enjoined a Felon having any contraband materials being required to search the offender's property after he's ALREADY been caught with this material before.. It's not the probation officer's job to look for them. It's his job to ensure that the offender has complied with the court's judgement, and failing that, pressing forward with prosecuting them for violating probation.
Why you, or anyone else, seem to be willing to cut Saddam slack over this issue is simply amazing to me. It's like he was never caught red-handed defying the UNSC resolutions for 5 years, hiding THOUSANDS OF TONNES of prohibited WMD weapons and materials, many of which REMAIN unaccounted for...
And now Saddam is trying to tell us "we destroyed that material, and after we did so, we saw no reason to keep the documentation"...
And now their lead biological guru, a female, now claims she's nothing more than a housewife...
No offense Zonder... But Saddam is a brute, a liar, a torturer, and a megalo-maniac who seeks to unite the entire Arab region under his despotic rule. No one denies that he is all of these...
So when you question the credibility of one of his defectors, who risked his life to provide us the information that led to our being able to find Saddam's hidden WMDs, it borders on incredulity.
We shouldn't have to guess whether or not Saddam has fully accounted for his materials...
And if we catch him red-handed again, we need to be FAR more forceful that we were in 1995, when those revelations should have been sufficient to evoke a UN military response for his overthrow.
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