At 10:46 PM 4/9/2005 -0700, Nick wrote: >On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 18:21:58 -0400, JDG wrote > >> Note that this resolution requires these things to be destroyed, >> removed, or rendered harmless under international supervision. >> This was to ensure that Iraq could never use the suspicion that it >> had chemical or biological weapons to again threaten its neighbors. >> Iraq NEVER complied with this provision. > >Then where are the chemical and biological weapons? As I understand things, >we've stopped even looking for them. Either they didn't exist, Iraq did >destroy them, or they are incredibly well hidden. > >> So, again, if one looks at the rationale for inspections - to provide >> assurances to the world that Iraq really did no longer have WMD >> weapons or programs, then it is impossible to say that the >> inspections were working, because no such assurances were ever produced. > >I have zero sympathy for Saddam and his buddies, but how can we fault them for >failing to produce something that didn't exist?
The world may never know the ultimate disposal of the weapons. But again, the United Nations required him to dispose of these weapons we *know* he had (unless of course you wish to deny that Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurds and Iranians) "under international supervision". Saddam Hussein never provided any evidence to UN inspectors that he had in fact destroyed his "chemical and weapons and all stocks of agents and all related subsystems and components and all research, development, support, and manufacturing facilities related thereto;....." Since the inspections could not provide assurances to us that this had been done, it is very curious that you claim that the inspections, quote, "worked." JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
