No casualties
Happy Iraqis throwing flowers
Quick democracy
"We know where the WMDs are..."
We have enough troops
What insurgency?
I guess there are enough assumptions to go around.
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Acquiunk
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Wed 27 Oct, 2004 10:10 am
Assumes.
Because it considers itself a paper of record the Times always qualifies statements for which it has no direct information. That can be taken as the IAEA's explanation for what happened to the explosives. That is, the Iraqis used standard procedures.
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Ticomaya
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Wed 27 Oct, 2004 10:29 am
Bear in mind that the IAEA, the agency that failed to destroy these explosives, is the very same agency that Kerry wants to have overarching control over the rebuilding of Iraq.
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The chief American weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, told The New York Sun yesterday that in 1995, when he was a member of the U.N. inspections team in Iraq, he urged the United Nations' atomic watchdog to remove tons of explosives that have since been declared missing.
Mr. Duelfer said he was rebuffed at the time by the Vienna-based agency because its officials were not convinced the presence of the HMX, RDX, and PETN explosives was directly related to Saddam Hussein's programs to amass weapons of mass destruction.
Instead of accepting recommendations to destroy the stocks, Mr. Duelfer said, the atomic-energy agency opted to continue to monitor them.
