Wednesday, January 12, 2005

According to the Washington Post:
The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein.

No weapons found. So, no doubt the media will start firing journalists, editors, who unquestioningly parroted the US administration's line taking us up to war. Surely these reporting failures are as important as the errors in the Dan Rather/CBS reporting on the miserable failure's war record.
And what of al the Iraqi scientists and bearcats held in captivity while the search for non weapons went on? When will they be released, and will they be compensated?

From the BBC website:
Former head of UN weapons inspections Hans Blix also said there was no surprise in the announcement.

"We have believed that there weren't any weapons since around May or June 2003. First came David Kay in September 2003 [who said] that he hadn't found any weapons and that was a big sensation - but he thought that there were programmes still," he told the BBC.

"But then came Duelfer last November [who] said that he hadn't seen any programmes, but maybe Saddam would have intended to restart the programme, and there is no evidence of that.

Mr Blix said he assumed it would be natural for the United States to now report their finding to the UN Security Council "because the US took the inspections out of the hands of the UN to undertake it themselves".

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