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

To: Vitas who wrote (452889)	9/5/2003 12:36:18 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

compliance veetie, compliance. Are you aware the US is under an international agreement to destroy chemical weapons. Do you know the deadline for that agreement?

To: Vitas who wrote (452889)	9/5/2003 12:42:34 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

US misses key deadline for chemical weapons destruction WASHINGTON (AFP) Sep 04, 2003 The United States acknowledged late Wednesday it will miss -- by more than three years -- an important international deadline for destroying its arsenal of chemical weapons. The US Defense Department said in a statement it will not to able to liquidate 45 percent of its chemical stockpile by April 29, 2004, as required by the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention. "The United States is therefore requesting the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) grant an extension of the 45 percent destruction deadline," the statement said. The military is now expected to be ready to reach the required milestone by December 2007, the Pentagon said. No detailed explanation for the postponement was given. But the department pointed out that its chemical demilitarization program "has had several delays due to unresolved political and operational issues that forced operational shutdowns or postponed start-up dates." spacewar.com According to your childishly rigid mentality, the UN must now authorize military action against the US.