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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (184684)	4/6/2006 2:24:45 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

in fact, you know we were in the process of widespread inspections and we pulled the inspectors out? And just would you have them do in Iraq, since Saddam announced he would no longer cooperate with UNSCOM inspectors after they discovered that Iraq apparently had lied about having used a total of 19,000 chemical warheads against Iran, when, by their own account, they only used 13,000?? That document, discovered by UNSCOM inspectors, was immediately seized and Iraq refused to turn it over until AFTER UNSC 1441 was unanimously passed. The warheads REMAIN UNACCOUNTED FOR: en.wikipedia.org July, 1998 UNSCOM discovers documents, at Iraqi Air Force headquarters, showing that Iraq overstated by at least 6,000 the number of chemical bombs it told the U.N. it had used during the Iran-Iraq War. These bombs remain unaccounted for. August 3, 1998 Butler meets with Tariq Aziz who demands that weapons inspections must end immediately and that Iraq must be certified as free of weapons of mass destruction. Butler says he cannot do that. August 5, 1998 Iraq suspends all cooperation with UNSCOM teams. August 26, 1998 Scott Ritter resigns from UNSCOM, sharply criticized the Clinton administration and the U.N. Security Council for not being vigorous enough about insisting that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction be destroyed. Ritter also accused U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan of assisting Iraqi efforts at impeding UNSCOM's work. "Iraq is not disarming," Ritter said, and in a second statement, "Iraq retains the capability to launch a chemical strike." **************** I just had to add the Ritter stuff, because it still amuses me as to how he suddenly reversed his position towards Iraq's WMD program when he was given $400K to make a movie.. Taken with the information provided by Naji Sabri, Iraq’s foreign minister under Saddam that Saddam had squirreled away some 500 tonnes of chemical weapons (about the same quantity as would have been contained in those missing 6,000 warheads), maybe you can tell us where those 6,000 warheads are located? msnbc.msn.com Hawk