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------- Forwarded message follows ------- >From WND }}}>Begin This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27320 Saturday, April 20, 2002 On to Baghdad! Posted: April 20, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Gordon Prather � 2002 WorldNetDaily.com If you're having trouble figuring out why the media elite and the war hawks are beating up on President Bush, you ought to read Nicholas Lemann's excellent article, "The Next World Order," in the April 1 issue of the New Yorker. Apparently, the war hawks have been � for at least the past decade � hell-bent on establishing a New World Order. The war hawks suppose it would be nice if other countries helped us, opposing such things as "terrorism" and the development of "weapons of mass destruction" � as the war hawks define those terms. But if other countries won't help us, then we'll just have to do it all by ourselves. The first manifestation of this Next World Order was to have been a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. But no other country is willing to follow us, and President Bush has reservations about going it alone. That's why the media elite and the war hawks are beating up on him. The original war hawk rationale was that Saddam had developed "weapons of mass destruction" in violation of U.N. Resolution 687, which established the terms and conditions for the formal ceasefire in the Gulf War. Since Sept. 11, war hawks have also been suggesting that Saddam has given � or intends to give � WMD to terrorists for use in the U.S. That may be true, if you include such things as wheat smut � whatever that is � in your WMD definition. But whatever the war hawks do include, every time they say "weapons of mass destruction," they hope you will hear them say "nukes." As for real nukes, then-Director General Hans Blix of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency was made responsible for ensuring full Iraqi cooperation in implementing Resolution 687. Blix's IAEA was already responsible for ensuring that Iraq was in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. For eight years, Blix's inspectors were able to verify Iraqi compliance with both Resolution 687 and the NPT. In January 2001 and 2002 � Hans Blix having been succeeded by Mohamed Al-Baradei � IAEA inspectors were allowed to enter Iraq to verify compliance with the NPT, but not to check compliance with Resolution 687. The U.N. commission that was supposed to support IAEA Resolution 687 inspections had voluntarily withdrawn from Iraq in December 1998. Now there is a new Resolution 687 inspection organization � the Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission � and Hans Blix is in charge. In addition to supporting the IAEA, Blix will now be responsible for ensuring that Iraq is not continuing to develop chemical or biological agents, as well as medium-range ballistic missiles for delivering them. The war hawks' worst nightmare is that Al-Baradei's IAEA nuke inspectors � supported by Blix � will speedily verify that Iraq is still in compliance with Resolution 687. Rats! How can the war hawks ever justify invading Iraq if Americans learn they are in no danger of being nuked in their jammies by Saddam? What to do? Well, according to the Washington Post, Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz asked the CIA to investigate the performance of Hans Blix when he was IAEA director general. Apparently, Wolfowitz hoped that the CIA would report that Blix was incompetent � that he should have discovered before the Gulf War that Saddam was violating the NPT. But, as the CIA reported to Wolfowitz, prior to U.N. Resolution 687, Blix could only inspect Iraqi "declared" facilities, and Saddam had not "declared" his clandestine nuke program. Resolution 687 essentially gave Blix � and now Al-Baradei � the unfettered access necessary to ensure that all Iraqi nuke-related programs have been ended and all nuke-related materials and facilities destroyed. At the urging of many Islamic states, Saddam is presently negotiating the return of the Resolution 687 inspectors with Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Of course, Blix can never assure the U.N. Security Council that Saddam cannot produce a batch of wheat smut some dark night. But it takes years � and an enormous energy-intensive infrastructure � to produce enough highly enriched uranium to make a few nukes. Al-Baradei can readily determine whether or not Saddam is making the nuke materials he needs. Hence, long before the current blood-letting in the Holy Land is ended, Blix may well have assured the Security Council that Saddam is not making nukes. Double rats! Of course, the war hawks could still try to justify an invasion if Blix finds that Saddam is still capable of making a crock of wheat smut. But President Bush may have more than a few reservations about going that alone. Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R- Okla. -- ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. Dr. Prather had earlier worked as a nuclear weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico. 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