Iraq Articles

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday September 09, 2002 17:14 by Carlos

For anyone who has the remotest suspicion that there is any substance to all the current warmongering, check it out from the mouth of the ex-weapons inspector in Iraq, Scott Ritter. Don't forget that US warplanes currently passing through Shannon are undoubtably supporting the current war in Iraq.

The first article here from Commondreams is based on a speech by Scott Ritter in Iraq. Ritter is an American, Republican (in the US sense), Bush-voting, ex-UN weapons inspector in Iraq. When he says that Iraq is not a serious threat, you have to take him seriously:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-01.htm
Perhaps the US could listen to its own advice and allow unfettered inspections of its own facilities where biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction are being produced.

(Not) Funnily enough, if one were to enquire where Iraq got the material for its chemical and biological weapons, the answer would be (at least in part) America. A US Senate report has found that the US "sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq". The article is from the Sunday Herald (Scotland) via commondreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm

It was reported in some Sunday newspapers that 100 bombing sorties were conducted in Iraq on Saturday. This means that the war has begun in all but name. Troops are on the ground in Northern Iraq, doing the prepwork for a full scale invasion.

This war is currently being supported by our government by illegaly allowing US military planes refuel at Shannon airport. All anti-war action in this country should be directed towards ending this situation, preferably by non-violent direct action at Shannon airport.