Hi OMD...Re the Article by Mr. Hamza and Inspections~A TOTAL Waste of Time~~ I wonder now, after yesterday, if anyone in any city around the globe read this piece...or for that matter, even wonder if anyone here on SI read it. You had no response to this article at all, and looking on SI, I don't see too many others had responded either.
I had missed it, but my husband had cut it out from the WSJ to read...I too found it on opinionjournal, and then looked on SI to see who had posted it.
So many people seem to be so willfully shortsighted, and seem to be so willfully ignorant of the situation.
Glad to see you posted this....nearly every paragraph is a highlight, but here are some of the top ones....at least IMO.
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Since the passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 we have witnessed a tiny team of inspectors with a supposedly stronger mandate begging Iraq to disclose its weapons stockpiles and commence disarmament. The question that nags me is: How can a team of 200 inspectors "disarm" Iraq when 6,000 inspectors could not do so in the previous seven years of inspection?
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The problem is that there is nothing Saddam can declare that will provide any level of assurance of disarmament. If he delivers the 8,500 liters of anthrax that he now admits to having, he will still not be in compliance because the growth media he imported to grow it can produce 25,000 liters. Iraq must account for the growth media and its products; it is doing neither.
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In the two decades before the Gulf War, I played a role in Iraq's efforts to acquire major technologies from friendly states. In 1974, I headed an Iraqi delegation to France to purchase a nuclear reactor. It was a 40-megawatt research reactor that our sources in the IAEA told us should cost no more than $50 million. But the French deal ended up costing Baghdad more than $200 million. The French-controlled Habbania Resort project cost Baghdad a whopping $750 million, and with the same huge profit margin. With these kinds of deals coming their way, is it any surprise that the French are so desperate to save Saddam's regime?
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And MANY etc's!
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