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US CONTINUES TO CONCEAL ITS EVIDENCE ON IRAQS WMD PROGRAM FROM UNSCOM INSPECTORS

laszlo kocacs | 06.02.2003 16:28

The United States government still refuses to provide the vast majority of inteligence it has on Iraqs Chemical/Biological weapons program to the UNSCOM inspectors. Instead it has chosen to present unsubstantiated snippets of inteligence evidence to the UN

The United States government still refuses to provide the vast majority of inteligence it has on Iraqs Chemical/Biological weapons program to the UNSCOM inspectors. Instead it has chosen to present unsubstantiated snippets of inteligence evidence to the UN meeting yesterday. Although the United States initiated the new weapons inspections resoulution (1441) it has been actively working to deny and conceal the vast majority of its evidence on Iraq's WMD program. By doing this it is seriously undermining the inspections it sought to restart and has shown just as little respect to the UN as Iraq. The result of denying this evidence to UNSCOM is ineffective inspections and thus a pretext to attack Iraq. The pretext being, ofcourse, UNSCOM's inability to find or destroy anything more than a fraction of Iraq's WMD program. Thus the US will paint itself as being forced to go to war with Iraq inorder to finally remove the weapons program. The US will thus have made it appear as if "all possible avenues were tried" including the UN, but none resulted in the destruction of Iraq's WMD program other than the removal of the Iraqi regime. The hypocrisy of the US stance on refusing to hand over all its evidence puts it in the same position as Iraq's refusal to bring forward all its evidence on its WMD program.

laszlo kocacs