September 25, 2003
No WMDs found in Iraq.
The team of inspectors that has been scouring Iraq for any evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) is prepared to announce that they haven't found anything whatsoever. This story will be all over the web. These quotes are from an
article in the Scotsman.
THE team of 1,400 weapons inspectors which has been scouring Iraq for the past four months is set to admit that it has failed to find any weapons of mass destruction, a leaked report has revealed.
The Iraq survey group, comprising top scientists from the UK, Australia and the United States, will next month present an interim report saying their only hard find was traces of uranium shells which could well date back to the last Gulf war in 1991.
While they will stress that their hunt is not yet over, their failure so far will be a devastating blow to Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, who has staked his credibility on his "certain belief" that they would find evidence to back up his controversial dossier on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.
David Kay, the CIA adviser leading the weapons inspection team, has prepared an interim report which will show the results of the computer files, documents and soil samples his team has examined since entering Iraq in May.
Although they have searched suspect sites listed in Mr Blair’s dossier, they have found no traces of chemical or biological weapons - however small. Nor have they found apparatus which could have been used to launch such weapons.
Tony Blair is in very serious trouble. Mr. Bush may just find himself quite alone fairly soon.
If people are in fact interested in finding evidence of illegal WMDs they might just want to check the US and the UK, both of which have enormous amounts of them. And many in direct violation of numerous international agreements that they have signed which specifically prohibit them. These include nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as well as systems capable of deploying these anywhere in the world. In fact, within the 45 minute window that Mr. Blair so prominently claimed the Iraqis were capable of. But I guess the rule is that white nations are more "civilized" and so can be trusted with them. But non-white nations are "savage" and so can't be trusted. Curious.
