I don't claim they never existed.
We're making progress...
According to the Iraqi head of the weapons program many were destroyed in 1991, particularly the facilities.
Yes... But they failed to disclose their biological weapons program, which was not unveiled until 1995. That makes the "head of that program" truly "reliable", right?
Just take their word for it all, right? Because they obviously wouldn't lie now, would they?
Furthermore, that document which UNSCOM discovered in 1998 REFUTES your inane belief that all the most service ready weapons were destroyed. THEIR OWN DOCUMENTS STATED that they had 6,000 warheads left, even though they had already claimed to EXPENDED (not destroyed) them against Iran during that war.
That like your folks searching your for the drugs you're obviously smoking, and you telling them that you already smoked it all... Until they read your diary about how you hid 1/3 of your stash somewhere...
they destroyed the rest along with documents to keep the whole thing out of the inspector's hands.
Hey Stupid... Iraq was under the OBLIGATION to turn over everything related to their WMD program under the terms of the 1991 cease fire... Destroying documents is equivalent to "obstruction of justice" and lying to UN investigators.
It was apparent to the Iraqi's by that time that chemical and bilogical weapons did not make sense against the U.S. or U.N.
Apparent to whom?? It's not apparent to anyone except those who WANT TO BELIEVE THAT... (those to whom it's apparent, please pipe up)..
I'm sure you'd be a great probation officer. I can see a sex offender telling you "they're cured", despite having been caught red-handed with child pornography in their jail cell (evidence of which they quickly destroy).
It was apparent to the Iraqi's by that time that chemical and bilogical weapons did not make sense against the U.S. or U.N. and that they continued to create trouble, in the form of prolonged sanctions, everytime some document showed up. So they got rid of them.
You BET they created "trouble". Because they were supposed to provide those documents back in 1991, and failure to do so constituted a violation of the ceasefire. They had 7 years to discover, review, and provide those documents. But they didn't.. and for VERY GOOD REASON. They wanted to maintain a cache of chemical weapons.
And, as I've stated previosly, but which you utterly disregard, a totalitarian state can not just ignore 6,000 warheads being haphazardly accounted for. That amount represented 33% of the total chemical material they used in 7 different chemical attacks against Iran over 8 years.
33% of Iraq's total "ready" chemical arsenal was not accounted for properly to UNSCOM. That's lying TP. It's a violation of the 1991 ceasefire, and constituted justification for renewal of hostilities and the overthrow of Saddam's regime. To now be willing to merely choose to believe the verbal assurances of a regime based upon lies, deceit, and brutality is more than just foolish, it's criminally negligent.
But of course, this all gets back to the real question. Why was it that George W. Bush was required to force the issue upon the UN in the first place? Why was the UN not willing to enforce it's own binding resolutions?
And most importantly, why are they, unwilling to believe the evidence uncovered by their own inspection process??
What good are inspections if they are merely a highly visible, but useless, fraud?
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