Because inspectors cannot find a needle in a haystack, Hussein apologists want to take the word of this madman. But after 4 years of claiming that he had conducted only “small-scale, defensive” research, Iraqi officials finally admitted in 1995 to production and weaponization of biological agents. This was only after evidence of their procurement and the defection of a former director of military industries.
After Iraq admitted to producing 19,000 liters of botulinum; 8,400 liters of anthrax; and 2,000 liters of aflatoxin and clostridium, no verification of destruction or amounts produced has been delcared.
Unscom said in 1999 that they had no confidence in Iraq’s accounting for biological weapons and that physical evidence is lacking, documentation is sparse or nonexistent, and coherence and consistency is lacking.
Blix said last month that Iraq’s new declaration contains little information that had not been declared by Iraq before 1998.
4 tons of chemical weapons are still unaccounted for; 20,000 litres of biological weapons are still unaccounted for, 20,00 shells for use in biological warfare are still unaccounted for; why Iraq was seeking to buy uranium in Africa in recent years? What happened to 550 shells filled with mustard gas and 150 bombs filled with biological agents that the United Nations could not account for in the late 1990s? Bottom line: Iraq never has fully accounted for major gaps and inconsistencies in its declarations and has provided no credible proof that it has completely destroyed its weapons stockpiles.
But Hussein apologists continue to talk of his cooperation. That’s right, after 12 years, a scientist is allowed to be interviewed. :rolleyes:
What about the UN’s continued complaints of non-cooperation?
Key Resolutions
S/Res/1205 of 05/11/1998 Condemnation of Iraq’s decision to halt monitoring.
S/Res/1194 of 09/09/1998 Condemnation of Iraq’s decision to halt all UNSCOM disarmament work.
S/Res/1137 of 12/11/1997 Condemnation of Iraq’s behavior, imposition of travel ban.
S/Res/1134 of 23/10/1997 Condemnation of Iraq’s behaviour, further sanctions threatened.
S/Res/1115 of 21/06/1997 Condemnation of Iraq’s refusal to grant access and interviews.
S/Res/1060 of 12/06/1996 Condemnation of Iraq’s refusal to grant inspection access.
Not to mention what 1441 said about Hussein’s cooperation
*DEPLORING the fact that Iraq has not provided an accurate, full, final, and complete disclosure, as required by resolution 687 (1991), of all aspects of its programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles with a range greater than one hundred and fifty kilometres, and of all holdings of such weapons, their components and production facilities and locations, as well as all other nuclear programmes, including any which it claims are for purposes not related to nuclear-weapons-usable material,
DEPLORING FURTHER that Iraq repeatedly obstructed immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to sites designated by the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), failed to cooperate fully and unconditionally with UNSCOM and IAEA weapons inspectors, as required by resolution 687 (1991), and ultimately ceased all cooperation with UNSCOM and the IAEA in 1998,
DEPLORING the absence, since December 1998, in Iraq of international monitoring, inspection, and verification, as required by relevant resolutions, of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles, in spite of the Council’s repeated demands that Iraq provide immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), established in resolution 1284 (1999) as the successor organization to UNSCOM, and the IAEA, and regretting the consequent prolonging of the crisis in the region and the suffering of the Iraqi people,
DEPLORING ALSO that the Government of Iraq has failed to comply with its commitments pursuant to resolution 687 (1991) with regard to terrorism, pursuant to resolution 688 (1991) to end repression of its civilian population and to provide access by international humanitarian organizations to all those in need of assistance in Iraq, and pursuant to resolutions 686 (1991), 687 (1991), and 1284 (1999) to return or cooperate in accounting for Kuwaiti and third country nationals wrongfully detained by Iraq, or to return Kuwaiti property wrongfully seized by Iraq,*
Blood of millions of people are on the hands of apologists and pacifists of dictators- from Hitler to Stalin to Pol Pot to Saddam. These pacifists never staged a single march to protest the massacres carried out by these dictators. But they flood the streets (and boards of gupshup) to protest any attempt to stop them.
