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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	1/28/2003 11:30:50 PM
From: A. Geiche	Read Replies (1) of 769670

"THE fact that the inspectors failed to find what America told them to look for is a problem principally for Washington's impatient mass murderers." ROUTLEDGE: WILL OUR LADS DIE FOR THIS? Jan 28 2003 By Mirror Chief Political Commentator Paul Routledge UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix finally came clean on his arsenal of damp squibs yesterday. At least he told the truth - a political style that went out of fashion with the fake election of President George Dubya Bush. There is no top-flight Iraqi arsenal that could rain nuclear, biological or chemical weapons on Britain. Guilt does not end there, of course. Top weight, Saddam Hussein has failed to come clean on possible weapons of mass destruction. He has also failed to prove that Iraq has destroyed "missing" chemical warfare bombs. His lack of honesty is not unusual. It is also true that the British Government failed to tell the truth about its exposure of our soldiers to atomic radiation in the 1950s. Truth resides in many places. Dr Blix says that Iraq has co-operated "rather well" with the inspectors. The vile dictator of Baghdad gave access to sites "to all sites we want to inspect". This admission is not exactly grounds for a declaration of war against Iraq. THE fact that the inspectors failed to find what America told them to look for is a problem principally for Washington's impatient mass murderers. On the evidence presented, the real crime of Iraq is that Saddam Hussein cannot come to a "genuine acceptance of disarmament". A truly heinous offence. But is that it? Is that what Private Smith from Sunderland and Sergeant Jones from Llanelli are on their way to the Gulf to correct? Is this really the foreign policy of a British government or just a doggy response to the poodlemeister in the White House? Nothing that came from my Government last night convinces me that the Blix Report justifies the kind of subtle, warlike lan-guage Tony Blair employs to con us into a war that we do not want. The Yanks ignored Dr Blix's report. They talked at inordinate, self-indulgent length about their mission to kill. It was as if Dr Blix was nix. And in a sense that is true. After a trial lasting more than two months he brought in a verdict of "not proven". No smoking gun. No shells filled with deadly chemicals. No fiendish biological devices. No sheds full of missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. In fact, no nukes at all. But no nukes is good nukes for George Dubya Bush and Tony Blair. They have already decided to go to war in about six weeks' time and the UN is irrelevant. The goalposts have been moved yet again. The warmongers do not need the excuse of weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq before mounting a terrifying assault. Bush and Blair now say that Saddam Hussein's lack of co-operation with UN inspectors is sufficient pretext to bomb the living daylights out of his people. The latest plan is to give Baghdad an ultimatum - perhaps 1 March. In the intervening weeks Hans Blix and his weapons sleuths can have one final go at finding conclusive proof of the elusive stockpile of WMDs. IRRESPECTIVE of his mission the military build-up will continue because the sole purpose of "giving the inspectors more time" is to make the final preparations for war. The cynicism of London and Washington is breathtaking but predictable. Once Saddam's military might vanished like a desert mirage it was necessary to invent another glib reason to invade. And that's where we are today. On the brink of a war that the British people - not to mention most right-thinking Americans - do not want. It is sickening. Blair does not listen to Blix and his boys any more than he listens to the voters who put him in Downing Street. But Daily Mirror readers are not taken in by his insidious guile. You know what's right and what's wrong and overwhelmingly, in your many thousands, you have told the Prime Minister that his war is WRONG. Dr Blix backs the natural instinct of the British people. He is right. And so are you. >>>>

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