Ok, I'm going to post on this finally. Some will be repetitive of what I have said on earlier threads, but since some people don't like to listen when the things that are said don't agree with their ideaology, I will repeat them:
The following are FACT
Weapons of Mass Destruction
1) Anti-War people love to scream about how we haven't found anything. Legally we didn't NEED to find anything. The responsibility was on Iraq to provide proof of the weapons destruction or storage that accounted for all listed from 1998, when the UN found illicit weapons. They were to provide this proof or face "serious consequences". I blame the UN for the vagueness in their decree.
Iraq never attempted to be concillatory to the UN inspectors, as admitted by Hans Blix. This makes Iraq in violation of the UN order. Please keep in mind that the two biggest opposing views on the war came from France, who has a track record of purchasing re-sold food and medicine from Iraq's Oil for Food program which was intended for the Iraqi people and had clandestine Oil contracts with Iraw during the embargo, AND Russia who were discovered to have been actively selling arms to Iraq even while the war was going on. Conflict of interest anyone?
Bottomline: By letter interational law Iraq was in violation of the UN, not just the US's views.
BTW, illegal weapons were found all over the place, just not chemical or biological. Think Al Samoud 2 missiles. By having these alone they are in physical breach.
2) Chemical and Biological Trailers and Beans OH MY - There have been many tons of Beans used to make Risin (sp?) gas in Iraq. Can these beans be used for food purposes? Yes, but considering that Iraq was reselling food and medicine from the Oil for Food program to fund their military, this makes no sense. Same could be said for the trailers, but there are several flaws in believing these trailers were used for food.
a) Why a Trailer? If producing food in a trailer is so efficient and cost effective, why don't wee see Keebler making cookies in them? The fact is it makes no sense to make food out of several trailers. If Iraq was maaking food, they would have had a central processing center and then used those trucks and trains to distribute the goods. Lets use common sense here.
b) Fermentation Tanks - Each trailer had fermentation tanks. Unless the Iraqi government was making Bean Beer, there is no other use for them besides producing chemical weapons.
3) Where Did All Those Weapons Go? - Do you really think that any government who wished to prove themselves as legitimate in front of the world audience would destroy over 1,000 tons of chemical and biological weapons in 4 years and NOT HAVE A SINGLE RECORD SHOWING THAT THEY WERE DESTROYED NOR HAVE PROOF THAT ANY INSTALLATION WAS USED TO DESTROY THEM????? Once again we fall back to the common sense issue.
Argue semantics all you like, but both the letter of the law and common sense back the United State's involvement in Iraq.
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