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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug R who wrote (43386)	8/16/2004 4:26:08 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

There was a vote for "serious consequences" for FAILING to account for the WMD. The UN report documented the failure. "Serious consequences" were allowed in addition to resumption of the 1991 war as the cease fire agreement was now off. UN 687 was the cease fire agreement authorizing the resumption of the Gulf War. So there are TWO UN resolutions authorizing force. Recap From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 is a resolution by the UN Security Council, passed unanimously on November 8, 2002, offering Iraq "a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations" that had been set out in several previous resolutions, notably to provide "an accurate full, final, and complete disclosure, as required by Resolution 687 (1991), of all aspects of its programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles". Resolution 1441 threatens "serious consequences" if these are not met. It reasserted demands that UN weapons inspectors should have "immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access" to sites of their choosing, in order to ascertain compliance. The full text is available on WikiSource (http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Security_Council_Resolution_1441). Although Iraq was given until November 15 to accept the resolution, they agreed on November 13. Weapons inspectors, absent from Iraq since December 1998, returned later that month, led by Hans Blix of UNMOVIC and Mohamed ElBaradei of the IAEA. In early December, 2002, Iraq filed a 12,000-page weapons declaration with the UN in order to meet requirements for this resolution. The UN and the US said that this failed to account for all of Iraq's chemical and biological agents. Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei presented several reports to the UN detailing Iraq's level of compliance with Resolution 1441. On January 30, 2003 Blix said that Iraq had not fully accepted its obligation to disarm, and the report was taken broadly negatively.