- After over a decade of crippling sanctions and Desert
Storm, Saddam Hussein was ordered to give UN weapons inspectors access
to sensitive facilities - he did, and nothing was discovered. The regime
also disclosed its weapons programs in an extensive 12,000 page dossier,
which named the corporations from the US, UK, Germany, France and China
who had supplied them with materials and equipment to develop biological,
chemical and nuclear weapons, but this information was censored. Iraq was
then given an ultimatum to disarm in accordance with Resolution 1441 or
face conflict with the Nations who armed it. In response, they destroyed
their remaining al-Samoud 2 missile system and allowed military scientists
to be interviewed by the inspectors, a key demand.
Despite this and Scott Ritter's revelations that Iraq was already neutered,
or the general consensus that containment was working, HusseinÕs
compliance was dismissed by the War Party as a cynical attempt to buy more
time, and he was accused of deceit. Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Straw, Hoon,
Powell, Rice, Cheney, Howard and others, continued to insist that Iraq
threatened world stability with weapons of mass destruction and confrontation
was paramount because 'time was running out!' But if, as President Bush
has now stated, it was never claimed that Hussein was an 'imminent threat'
and as George Tenet said, he only hoped for a nuclear weapon, then why
was 'Shock & Awe' necessary?
Had Hans Blix and his team been given more time - just one more year, it
would have eventually come to light, as it did to David Kay, that Iraq
did not possess WMDs with the capacity to threaten it's neighbours, (Israel)
far less America or Britain, after all, they couldn't even successfully
invade Kuwait! So, war and the ensuing chaos could have been averted by
diplomacy and an apology or resignations will not suffice, but with the
main protagonist, Saddam Hussein now in custody, the location of any concealed
weapons which may supply terrorist networks, should have been coerced from
the 'horse's mouth' - the alleged Taliban conscripts in Guantanamo Bay
are interrogated for less and unlike the despot of Iraq, denied basic human
rights and PoW status.
Since the weapons which could be activated in 45 minutes have failed to
materialize, not even in retaliation after the outbreak of war, it is not
Iraq who has undermined the ineffectual UN and defied International Law,
but the corrupt politicians who engaged our servicemen and women in an
illegal invasion of that country, justified by 'dramatised' intelligence.
Those who attempted to inform the public of this fact, paid with their
jobs, or like Dr. David Kelly - their life. To distract people from their
flagrant war crimes, the guilty keep the media embroiled in contrived inquiries
which evade the real issues and treat critical political decisions as an
ongoing 'learning process.'
World Leaders who lent their support to the Coalition share collective
responsibility for crimes against humanity, namely; the unlawful detention
of combatants without trial, the use of depleted uranium and wilful ruination
of infrastructure, the plunder of resources and needless death of 10,000
innocent Iraqi civilians and 600 duped troops. If that is not enough to
expose our fraudulent democracy and convince the populace to run these
pathological liars and murderers out of office before they commit further
genocide, what will? These dangerous 'Dark Forces' should not be permitted
to implement another single domestic policy on our behalf, or given a podium
to voice an opinion on any matter concerning global security. And no, the
reaction should not be a clamour for World Government as the solutionÉ
that is the problem.
Hazel
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