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Sunday January 25, 2004 21:20 by p o toole
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David Kay is now convinced that previous weapons inspectors were correct all along. Is it any wonder George W. has given up on the search for WMD? They were never
there in the first place. And he knew it,- there was no threat to the US. In 1998 Scott
Ritter- chief weapons inspector and head of United Nations Special Commission
(UNSCOM) in Iraq for de-commissioning weapons said , “the chemical weapons
infrastructure had been completely dismantled.....the biological weapons programme
was gone....the nuclear weapons programme was completely eliminated...If I had to
quantify Iraq’s threat , I would say zero,” - in 1998 he was removed before his
findings became public , and not thrown out by Sadam as we were led to believe.
Hans Blix suffered the same treatment. He decried US/UK ‘intelligence’ as a “wild
goose chase”. Now David Kay, Bush’s man on the ground, has found nothing and he
has quit. Colin Powell, US secretary of defence described Iraq’s threat to the US. as
‘non-existent’ just months prior to 9/11, but Powell has since shown up in the UN
with the ‘proof of the threat’ via satellite photo’s of mobile chemical labs and launch
sites which have also proved non-existent. However, the receipts for the weapons with
which Sadam killed Iranians in the Iran/Iraq war are probably in a drawer in
the oval office and in Downing street. Along with the receipts for 27 billion dollars for
US weapons sold by Oliver North to Iran to kill Iraqis in the same war. And lets not
forget the hawk jets British Aerospace sold to Suharto in East Timor to massacre
half the population so now we can get cheap (Nike and Reebok’s and Gap) clothes for
the kids. Or most recently the receipts for 100 f-16’s sold by the US. to Israel while
Bush is tirelessly working on the ‘roadmap to peace’. It doesn’t matter to George or
Tony if the WMD are found or not. Iraq’s infrastructure is being sold (privatised)
either-way. Rebuilding contracts are already secured, telephone network’s, power
grid, health service’s, industry/manufacturing, and even airline routes are all up for
grabs.The US/UK controlled IMF will loan the money for all this under the usual
impossible terms, and the newly liberated (3rd world) citizens of free Iraq will pay for
it till the end of time. -War is big business, keeping nations poor for cheap labour is
big business, stripping natural assets (oil) is huge business, selling off manufacturing
and infrastructure to the ‘open market economy’ of newly liberated countries is
massive. Just look at the other nations the US/UK found needing liberation,
democratisation or reform on some humanitarian grounds, it’s staggering. Colombia,
Guatemala, El-Salvador, Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Honduras, Gambodia,
Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, India etc,etc.... On a smaller scale its called armed robbery. The
‘justification’ to attack Iraq and kill upwards of 12,000 Iraqi civilians in the last few
months to get Sadam was never valid. To kill 685,000 Iraqi children under five
using ‘sanction’s get Sadam is not just. Nearly two million Iraqis killed to get one
dictator, who was installed and armed by the same people who find him guilty now,
of crimes he committed at a time when he was not so guilty, because he was buying
these weapons as ‘our kind of guy’ is nothing short of insanity.. It’s anyones guess
where the next threat will come from because in this business enemies are always
needed. It should be noted that the death toll amongst those who give the orders and
profit from these wars is zero.
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