The U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
Posted on 01/06/2003 4:39:46 PM PST by Publius Maximus
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.N. agency searching for evidence of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq said Monday that so far it has not found evidence of one.
Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said inspectors have found no proof that Iraq lied about nuclear weapons in its declaration on weapons of mass destruction presented to the United Nations.
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Attention UN moron... there will be no 'smoking gun'... only a mushroom cloud, most likely over Tel Aviv, Washington DC, and/or NYC.
We'll be at war at the time of our choosing, and it will be their fault.
Self-Defense is a valid and legimate reason for going to war.
Hmmmmmm
The only way he will get the message is when we start bombing and invading. Then he "might" get it!
Your point raises an interesting question. Given Israeli intelligence and given their past history with Saddam and anything nuclear, don't you think that Sharon would immediately dispatch any A-bomb building effort by Iraq as they did in 1981? The Arab world would fume and rant, but as in 1981, they would do nothing in terms of launching against Israel.
Israel is always our canary in the coal mine.
they lost me at the word where it starts out "Mohamed..."
I guess we ought to just nuke them all... they are NOT believable. They lie for each other, to submit the dhimmis to their false god... named allah by death or by enslavement.
Kofi is a muslim too. He is one of them. What muslim can render credibility to other muslims, verifying their own obedience to rules they do not support and have historically flouted with kofi's apparent approval? Sound confusing? "Trust ME" they say... "we are muslims and would never lie." Sorry, I just cannot do that. No matter how hard I try.
What muslims can be trusted in any responsible position, as their sole motivation for living, if they are a "true" muslim, is the emergence of islam as the world's dominant religion and the surpression of all other ideologies at the point of the sword, or the tip of an anthrax warhead?
They are murderors and bioweapons blackmailers.
NONE of them can be fully trusted. It's time we stopped trying to do the impossible.
You and I might believe that proof, but we aren't the audience. Those who believe in bringing the US to heel won't drop that faith in the UN and will find reason to disbelieve that proof. They'll say that it was manufactured. Count on it.
I doubt that, even if the Administration provided solid proof, those others demanding a UN blessing would believe the evidence was credible (at least publicly). They'll howl that we need UN approval anyway and are acting as rogue nation. That's one probably reason Germany (Saddam's biggest supplier) now sits on the Security Council because they stand to give the howlers credibility and to deprive us of a unanimous vote. The propaganda would be useful to our enemies. I think most in the UN are making an attempt to entrap us with this game and would be delighted if Saddam succeeds in delivering a WMD to the US. It would help destroy the aura of invincibility and provide our enemies with both hope and more recruits. It would also put doubt into our protected "allies." Depriving us of UN approval would help strain our capabilities.
No, I think this is a very delicate situation and don't want to see the military get overextended. I also think that Powell has been a loose cannon. How are you so certain the administration is not giving the UN the rope to hang themselves, setting them up?
How are you certain that anybody outside the US and Britain cares?
To make the UN look foolish and IRRELEVENT. We've got the goods ready to spring when needed for world consumption (IMHO) and when our guys, already on the ground, have had a chance to work their magic, and when the rest of the boyz get in the theater, we'll go after them. When the rest of the muslim world realizes that the UN couldn't find squat, and the US has detailed photographs, informant info, surveillence tapes etc., the sand monkeys won't be able to trust each other (And they'll start to get the idea that the US is damn series about terrorism.
When is Kofi the Clown's stint over? And does anyone have any idea who will be put in charge next?
Yep. Where is the paperwork that shows he has destroyed them? We already know he has them, and has used them. So where are they? Iraq? Syria?
Saddam has to prove he's destroyed them, or else we know he still has them, somewhere, and if he still has them, we have the right to stop him.
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