The Facts

Iraq was disarmed after the last UN weapons inspections

It is clear that the 1991-98 UNSCOM inspections were successful. This is what the media fails to tell us, as it undermines Bush's and Blair's case and allows politicians to refer to Saddam's weapons of mass destruction unchallenged.

Scott Ritter, former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq says:
"When I left Iraq in 1998... the infrastructure and facilities had been 100% eliminated. There's no doubt about that. All of their instruments and facilities had been destroyed. The weapons design facility had been destroyed. The production equipment had been hunted down and destroyed. And we had in place means to monitor - both from vehicles and from the air - the gamma rays that accompany attempts to enrich uranium or plutonium. We never found anything."
(Ritter and William Rivers Pitt, War On Iraq, Profile Books, 2002, p.26)

A United Nations Panel reported: "[I]n spite of well-known difficult circumstances, UNSCOM and IAEA have been effective in uncovering and destroying many elements of Iraq's proscribed weapons programmes in accordance with the mandate provided by the Security Council. It is the panel's understanding that IAEA has been able to devise a technically coherent picture of Iraq's nuclear weapons programme. UNSCOM has achieved considerable progress in establishing material balances of Iraq's proscribed weapons. Although important elements still have to be resolved, the bulk of Iraq's proscribed weapons programmes has been eliminated."
(Concerning Disarmament and Current and Future Ongoing Monitoring and Verification Issues, 27 March 1999)

Hanns Blix said inspectors had "not found any such weapons, only a small number of empty chemical munitions, which should have been declared and destroyed". (Febuary 15 2003)

USA: A big Bully

Bullying the world

The USA's Proud history of invasion and terrorism:
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991-2003
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001

Bullying the UN

With regards to last year's crucial resolution 1441, nations on the Security Council "voted under heavy diplomatic and economic pressure from the United States", InterPress Service reported. As recipients of aid from Washington, non-permanent members of the Council "were seemingly aware of the fact that in 1990 the United States almost overnight cut about $70 million in aid to Yemen immediately following its negative vote against a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution to militarily oust Iraq from Kuwait". (Quoted, Norman Soloman, 'Unilateral Power: By Any Other Name', ZNet, November 21, 2002)

"Minutes after Yemen voted against the resolution to attack Iraq, a senior American diplomat told the Yemeni ambassador: 'That was the most expensive No vote you ever cast.' Within three days, a U.S. aid programme of $70 million to one of the world's poorest countries was stopped. Yemen suddenly had problems with the World Bank and the IMF; and 800,000 Yemeni workers were expelled from Saudi Arabia." (John Pilger)

On Chemical Weapons

The U.S. Army site at Edgewood Chemical Biological Centre has long been suspected of engaging in research and development that violates international chemical and biological conventions. Edgewood has all of the facilities and expertise for the development of biological and chemical weapons. The base also has stocks of biological and chemical agents, such as ricin and anthrax. On February 23 2003, a 13-member delegation of parliamentarians, scientists, academics, faith and union leaders from Canada, the U.K., Italy, Denmark, and the United States attempted to investigate the site but were refused entry.

The Criminals

General Buford Blount (commander of the 3rd Infantry Division)

Lied to justsify the attack on the Reuters office killing 2 journalist, one from Reuters and one from Spanish Television. Samia Mahul had a piece of metal in her brain but recovered after surgery.

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