The US, UN & Iraq III

someone has opened a can of worms.

America-As-Fixer

Hey, let us fix your world for you! We have the attitude; we have the technology; we have the right religion; we have a nation of prosperous and happy people (uh-huh). Let us fix your world for you.

Tra-la.

Okie Dokie- Everyone who wants to continue this thread, please go to the Part IV link that Walter has posted. Thanks!

The hunt for weapons of mass destruction yields - nothing

Intelligence claims of huge Iraqi stockpiles were wrong, says report

Julian Borger in Washington, Ewen MacAskill and Patrick Wintour
Thursday September 25, 2003
The Guardian

An intensive six-month search of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction has failed to find a single trace of an illegal arsenal, according to accounts of a report circulated in Washington and London.
A draft of the report, compiled by the CIA-led 1,400-strong Iraq Survey Group (ISG), has been sent to the White House, the Pentagon and Downing Street, a US intelligence source said, and will contain no evidence of Iraqi stockpiles of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.

"It demonstrates that the main judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in October 2002, that Saddam had hundreds of tonnes of chemical and biological agents ready, are false," said the source.

The timing of this disclosure could hardly be worse for Tony Blair, just days before the start of the Labour party conference. Iraq has dogged the prime minister almost continuously for five months, overshadowing the domestic agenda. Downing Street had been hoping for respite after the end of Lord Hutton's inquiry, which closes today.

Mr Blair put forward Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as the reason for going to war and he has repeatedly insisted that the weapons would be found.

He told a sceptical Conservative MP in the Commons on April 30 that he was absolutely convinced that Iraq had such weapons and predicted that, when the report was published, "you and others will be eating some of your words."

The entire world agreed that Iraq had WMD's before the war or 1441 would never have passed. The U.N. KNEW Iraq had WMD's, so now it is just a matter of finding out what happened to them. No one knows if they were destroyed, hidden, or moved.

I don't understand what the problem is. They are there somewhere and evidence to that will eventually show up. Either that or they have been moved. No one is disagreeing that Iraq had them, right? So where they are is the question.