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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
For the love of God...how many times do I have to say this to you people...
Iraq POSESSED WMD's. That's why the UN weapons inspectors were there post Gulf War in the first place. Part of the agreement at the end of that war was to have those inspectors oversee and document the dismantling and destruction of his arsenal and delivery systems associated with them. That task was not complete at the time Hussein expelled the inspectors.....several times.
The final UNSC resolution before THIS war gave Hussein the opportunity to account for the WMD's that had not yet been destroyed prior to the inspectors being expelled.
These are undeniable facts.
Why you people continue to throw irrelevant and revisionist information out to refute this is beyond me.
What part of this is so difficult for you to grasp?
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There are no WMD to be found. What part of that can't you understand?
The US of Dubya couldn't find them. Neither could the UN. Both admitted there were none after 1994.
Can you accept the fact inspectors were wrong?
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But U.N. reports submitted to the Security Council before the war by Hans Blix, former chief U.N. arms inspector, and Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, have been largely validated by U.S. weapons teams. The common findings:
Iraq's nuclear weapons program was dormant.
No evidence was found to suggest Iraq possessed chemical or biological weapons. U.N. officials believe the weapons were destroyed by U.N. inspectors or Iraqi officials in the years after the 1991 Gulf War.
Iraq was attempting to develop missiles capable of exceeding a U.N.-mandated limit of 93 miles.
Demetrius Perricos, the acting executive chairman of the U.N. inspection teams, said in an interview that the failure to find banned weapons in Iraq since the war undercuts administration criticism of the U.N.'s search before the war.
"You cannot say that only the Americans or the British or the Australians currently inspecting in Iraq are the clever inspectors — and the Americans and the British and the Australians that we had were not," he said.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/i...2-un-wmd_x.htm