On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:46:43 +0100, "Paul J. Adam"
wrote:

The claim was that there was a clear and obvious threat. Where was it?
What made Iraq so special compared to more evident proliferators and
producers of WME?

I asked eighteen months ago and never got an answer.

Some of us have made no secret of this: I was saying at the time that
the most I expected anybody to find were old stockpiles of chemical
munitions buried amongst a blundering Arab totalitarian bureaucracy.
Taking intelligence intercepts of what people amongst Saddam's
headquarters were saying as gospel made as much sense as assuming that
Hitler's spring-1945 gibbering about moving entire Panzer armies from
his bunker had some basis in fact, instead of referring to an
under-equipped rabble of Volkstrum.

So to my mind the whole WMD thing was simply a legalistic fig-leaf for
the removal of Saddam from the very beginning. Having said that, I'm
confident his regime was in breach of UN resolutions, if only because
it didn't have the capacity to run things efficiently enough to ensure
the complete disposal of it's WMD programmes, even if it had adopted
that as a policy.

Gavin Bailey

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