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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24968)	6/25/2003 11:20:29 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

There is more to it than that. Our ceasefire agreement with Iraq was not that the UN would try to find the WMD - it was that the Iraqis would disclose them and the UN inspectors would verify their destruction. The Iraqis neither gave all of the WMD up nor did they demonstrate that they destroyed all of what was known or disclosed to the UN. Thus they patently violated the ceasefire agreement. It was clear that once the inspectors were let back into Iraq (it might be recalled that Iraq threw them out) they were not getting a level of cooperation that would let them find the WMD anytime soon - the same problem we still have with regard to the WMD.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (24968)	6/25/2003 2:21:17 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Then why didn't Blix declare Iraq clear of WMD's back in December?? Blix was pretty clear in saying that it was too early to tell for sure, but that with a little of Junior's famous "patience" they could find out pretty soon. Junior and Rumsfeld were determined to launch the war before it was shown that the weapons were gone because they <font color=red>knew</font> there were no weapons to find. That is what makes this lie a high crime, They knew there were no weapons and therefore had to pull Blix out before he made that clear to the world. TP