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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (410039)	5/29/2003 11:47:53 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The article referred to "defectors", and you are sure you know the one defector referred to? Give me a break. As for the "demonstration": Conspiracy theorists should remember that much of the evidence against Mr Hussein came not from the American and British governments or their spies, but from two unimpeachable sources. They were the United Nations weapons inspectors, and Mr Hussein himself. Mr Hussein had what police call form. He made and used chemical weapons in the 1980s. Throughout the 1990s, he strove to hide his WMD programme from Unscom, the un inspectorate then responsible for dismantling it. In this endeavour he enjoyed much success, though Iraqi defectors helped the inspectors to uncover, among other things, the extent of Iraq’s biological weapons programme, and its manufacture of VX, a nerve gas. On the basis of Iraq’s known imports and discrepancies in its record-keeping, Unscom and Unmovic (the latter-day inspection body, led by Hans Blix) made some frightening calculations about the chemical and biological agents and munitions potentially at Mr Hussein’s disposal. On the eve of the war, Unmovic reported a “strong presumption” that around 10,000 litres of Iraqi anthrax might still exist. -----Again, from your link to the Economist.....