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Politics : Attack Iraq?

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To: Doren who wrote (4951)	3/23/2003 12:42:19 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) of 8683

<<<It was my understanding that the Al Samounds were technically illegal in that they could be modified to have a range just slightly more than they were allowed.>>> You are almost correct. The Al Samounds were fully disclosed to the UN along with test results conducted by Iraq. Iraq conducted approximately 20 tests on the missiles and the results were that a third of the test flights fell slightly short of the 93 mile limit, a third were right at the limit, and a third were slightly over. There was one missile in the test which went something less than 20 miles over the limit, and after the first reports in the news, was the only one anyone ever heard about again. The tests were conducted without guidance systems which would have caused them to fall short of the initial test results. The main technical feature which caused them to be destroyed is they used an engine of a slightly larger diameter than what was allowed by previous UN resolutions. The whole thing would be about the equivalent of doing 61 MPH on the freeway. The only items the inspectors found which hadn't been declared were some expended chemical warheads left over from the early 80s. The inspectors found a couple of them and Iraq went through everything they had and turned over around 10 more. The only real danger to Bush was that a few more months of inspections would have shown Iraq was in full compliance with previous UN resolutions, in which case UN sanctions against Iraq would have likely been removed. Iraq would have been free to engage in free trade with the rest of the world and the total failure of past foreign policy toward Iraq would have cut the US out of sharing any pieces of the pie. The whole WMD sham was a smoke screen to hide an illegal attack against a sovereign nation, against International conventions.

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