"Yama" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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"George Z. Bush" wrote in message
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But, without the weapons that they're probably not going to find
because
they
don't exist, how badly could those programs have injured anybody?

Today not all

In 5 years time when the sanctions have been lifted
and Iraq can buy all the components it wants and
go back into production of WMD and the missiles
to carry them who knows ?

But that wasn't the point, was it? US&UK attacked Iraq because of it's
supposed _immediate_ threat. If you start invading coutries based on their
ability to develope WMD and ballistic missile capability within 5 years,
there probably are like, oh, 100 nations which need to be invaded right
away.

The ability to develop weapons programs and the act
of having clandestine weapons programs specifically
prohibited by the UN are somewhat different beasts.

The Iraqi regime having invaded two of its neighbours and
having use WMD on its own people was a known threat.

The fact that they have indeed been found to be developing
such clandestine programs seems to indicate the leopard
hadnt changed its spots. Now the inquiry into the Hutton
affair seems to indicate some doubt about how immediate
various sources thought was correct, however when dealing with
a regime as secrestive as Iraq its always going to be hard to
get it right

After the first war with Iraq we found they were MUCH nearer
to getting nuclear weapons than anyone thought possible.
When dealing with someone with the track record of Saddam
Hussein I'm not inclined to grant the regime the benefit of the
doubt.


Now, there is more and more evidence being uncovered that Bush and Blair
not
only exaggarated and were ignorant about true Iraqi capabilities, they
were
downright lying to public about them.

Why should international community believe them ever again?



And yet you'd have us believe Saddam Hussein and presumably
lift the sanctions, which were killing more Iraqis per year than
the war, if you believe the relief organisations.

Fact is the situation was a running sore, the options were
ignore the infection or lance the boil.

Keith