- 1) Lie Number One is the justification for an attack
on Iraq - the threat of its "weapons of mass destruction".
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- Few countries have had 93 per cent of their major weapons
capability destroyed. This was reported by Rolf Ekeus, the chairman of
the United Nations body authorised to inspect and destroy Iraq's arsenal
following the Gulf War in 1991. UN inspectors certified that 817 out of
the 819 Iraqi long-range missiles were destroyed. In 1999, a special panel
of the Security Council recorded that Iraq's main biological weapons facilities
(supplied originally by the US and Britain) "have been destroyed and
rendered harmless." As for Saddam Hussein's "nuclear threat,"
the International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iraq's nuclear weapons
programme had been eliminated "efficiently and effectively".
The IAEA inspectors still travel to Iraq and in January reported full
Iraqi compliance. Blair and Bush never mention this when they demand that
"the weapons inspectors are allowed back". Nor do they remind
us that the UN inspectors were never expelled by the Iraqis, but withdrawn
only after it was revealed they had been infiltrated by US intelligence.
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- 2) Lie Number Two is the connection between Iraq and
the perpetrators of September 11.
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- There was the rumour that Mohammed Atta, one of the
September 11 hijackers, had met an Iraqi intelligence official in the Czech
Republic last year. The Czech police say he was not even in the country
last year. On February 5, a New York Times investigation concluded: "The
Central Intelligence Agency has no evidence that Iraq has engaged in terrorist
operations against the United States in nearly a decade, and the agency
is convinced that Saddam Hussein has not provided chemical or biological
weapons to al-Qaeda or related terrorist groups."
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- 3) Lie Number Three is that Saddam Hussein, not the
US and Britain, "is blocking humanitarian supplies from reaching the
people of Iraq." (Foreign Office minister Peter Hain).
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- The opposite is true. The United States, with British
compliance, is currently blocking a record $5billion worth of humanitarian
supplies from the people of Iraq. These are shipments already approved
by the UN Office of Iraq, which is authorised by the Security Council.
They include life-saving drugs, painkillers, vaccines, cancer diagnostic
equipment."
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- The number of MPs who have signed an early day motion
against an attack on Iraq is now at 148.
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- Please contact your MP and demand that he/she sign their
name to this action against Blair.
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- Go to www.faxyourmp.com, type in your postcode your
MP name will appear.
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- In the box provided, copy and paste the EDM below into
your letter requesting that he/she add their name to the list. (You can
keep your letter as simple or as detailed as you like). Press send and
the letter will automatically be delivered to your MP. Simple.
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- EDM 927 MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAQ
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- Mahon/Alice
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- 'That this House is aware of the deep unease among honourable
Members on all sides of the House at the prospect that Her Majesty's Government
might support United States military action against Iraq; agrees with
Kofi Annan that a further military attack on Iraq would be unwise at this
time; believes that such a course of action would disrupt the already fragile
stability in the Middle East; and instead urges the Prime Minister to
use Britain's influence with Iraq to gain agreement that United Nations
weapons inspections will resume.
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