Looks like there may be an innocent explanation, one that is in Iraq'a favor....
Of course there is. The fact is that these missiles were previously tagged by the Richard Butler UN inspectors who did not get a chance to destroy them before being kicked out in 1998. If they were NOT there, this would be mean the inspectors had actually found something, since then the mustard would be in an unauthorized place unknown.
Get it? The UN inspectors are going to the the exact places where they are least likely to find anything untowards -- places the Iraqis know they are going to, like those palaces. The real stuff is disbursed in hidden locations almost impossible to find except perhaps through interviews with defectors. Instead the UN will interview in-country Iraqi engineers who face torture if they spill the beans.
What happenned? Last night, most posters here seemed to understand that the UN inspectors are there to protect their dream of world government. Tonight posters (not Theo, I think) actually believe in the inspection regime. Unbelieveable.
Looks like there may be an innocent explanation, one that is in Iraq'a favor....
Begs the question. If this is some deserted installation where no current Iraqi weapons folks are hanging out, and this is so easily confirmed, why were the UN inspectors wasting their time there?
The inspections are a stupid show. The fact remains that the UN has $250 Million set aside from Iraq's oil for food sales, and they don't want a war b/c they would rather keep spending this fat bank account. It is all a stupid charade. Kofi and his gang of thieving corrupt 3rd world dictators should be "dismantled" before the Iraqi regime.