The same weapons inspectors that spent five years in Iraq without finding it’s rebuilt nuclear weapons program? The program that we had to find out about from those in-laws of Hussein’s that fled to Syria?
I wouldn’t trust those guys to pour piss out of a boot after I wrote the instructions on the heel, and told them where to find the instructions.
Mr. Bowen - 06:09am on 09/15/2005
The weapons inspectors, that is. The in-laws were murdered on Saddam’s orders, if I remember correctly.
Mr. Bowen - 06:09am on 09/15/2005
That is the way it came down just not the whole story.
richard - 06:09am on 09/15/2005
Is that the way it happened???
Yes it is. The U.S. told the UN to stand up to Saddam Hussein and enforce its many resolutions against him. The UN sent weapons inspectors into Iraq but Iraq was invaded before the inspection was completed. That’s my recollection of events.
MikeAdamson - 07:09am on 09/15/2005
’No Weapons were ever found before or after.’
Not true - stockpiles of weapons were not found but active programs in violation of the resolutions were found and small amounts of weapons and material were found.
I always have the same question though - If Saddam didn’t possess weapons or programs why didn’t he go to the UN to have the sanctions removed to alleviate the supposed suffering of the Iraqis?
ICallMasICM - 07:09am on 09/15/2005
The UN Weapons inspectors who were kicked out by Saddam during the Clinton inspectors.
We were ready to go in and Saddam “allowed” the weapons inspectors back in, the UN didn’t send them as a result of our being ready for war.
This delayed us for a long time. We also went to the UN for resolutions saying that Saddam had one more chance to comply, which he didn’t.
Now the question is? were the WMD’s sent out of the country or were the destroyed in the first gulf war and nobody bothered to tell Saddam?
The Whistler - 07:09am on 09/15/2005
On 15 December 1998, Richard Butler, the Executive Chairman of UNSCOM, reported to the Security Council that Iraq had failed to grant UNSCOM full and unconditional access to (at least) four sites in Iraq. In anticipation of the airstrikes that the US and UK governments were threatening, Butler ordered weapons inspectors to be withdrawn on the following day, December 16. Airstrikes - “Operation Desert Fox” - immediately followed.
“I received a telephone call from US Ambassador Peter Burleigh inviting me for a private conversation at the US mission [...] Burleigh informed me that on instructions from Washington it would be ‘prudent to take measures to ensure the safety and security of UNSCOM staff presently in Iraq.’ I told him that I would act on his advice and remove my staff from Iraq.”
No Weapons were ever found before or after. Most likely because there were not any to be found.
That makes little sense. We have satellite photos of places, that weapons inspectors were to visit, that clearly show activity prior to the visits, and no activity just as the visits commenced. Saddam held inspectors from inspecting certain sites. Why?
We went in with a coalition of some (I forget the number) number of countries. Some have drooped out, See: Spain, but most have hung with us. France, Germany, and Russia, somehow count as “the rest of the world.”
After 12 years of weapons inspections, how did we not give them enough time? How long does it take to search for this stuff if he’s got the means and capability to move things at will? Longer than 12 years, I guess.
Seth Yantiss - 07:09am on 09/15/2005
Here we go again.
No Weapons were ever found before or after. Most likely because there were not any to be found.
Was Saddam in violation of U.N. Mandates? Absolutely he had been for years.
richard - 07:09am on 09/15/2005
I suppose those Kurds who were gassed and the Iranians that were gassed would be surprised to hear that Saddam never had WMD’s.
The same weapons inspectors that spent five years in Iraq without finding it’s rebuilt nuclear weapons program? The program that we had to find out about from those in-laws of Hussein’s that fled to Syria?
I wouldn’t trust those guys to pour piss out of a boot after I wrote the instructions on the heel, and told them where to find the instructions.
The weapons inspectors, that is. The in-laws were murdered on Saddam’s orders, if I remember correctly.
That is the way it came down just not the whole story.
Yes it is. The U.S. told the UN to stand up to Saddam Hussein and enforce its many resolutions against him. The UN sent weapons inspectors into Iraq but Iraq was invaded before the inspection was completed. That’s my recollection of events.
’No Weapons were ever found before or after.’
Not true - stockpiles of weapons were not found but active programs in violation of the resolutions were found and small amounts of weapons and material were found.
I always have the same question though - If Saddam didn’t possess weapons or programs why didn’t he go to the UN to have the sanctions removed to alleviate the supposed suffering of the Iraqis?
The UN Weapons inspectors who were kicked out by Saddam during the Clinton inspectors.
We were ready to go in and Saddam “allowed” the weapons inspectors back in, the UN didn’t send them as a result of our being ready for war.
This delayed us for a long time. We also went to the UN for resolutions saying that Saddam had one more chance to comply, which he didn’t.
Now the question is? were the WMD’s sent out of the country or were the destroyed in the first gulf war and nobody bothered to tell Saddam?
http://www.irak.be/ned/archief/exit_UN_%20weapons_%20inspectors_1998.htm
That makes little sense. We have satellite photos of places, that weapons inspectors were to visit, that clearly show activity prior to the visits, and no activity just as the visits commenced. Saddam held inspectors from inspecting certain sites. Why?
We went in with a coalition of some (I forget the number) number of countries. Some have drooped out, See: Spain, but most have hung with us. France, Germany, and Russia, somehow count as “the rest of the world.”
After 12 years of weapons inspections, how did we not give them enough time? How long does it take to search for this stuff if he’s got the means and capability to move things at will? Longer than 12 years, I guess.
Here we go again.
No Weapons were ever found before or after. Most likely because there were not any to be found.
Was Saddam in violation of U.N. Mandates? Absolutely he had been for years.
I suppose those Kurds who were gassed and the Iranians that were gassed would be surprised to hear that Saddam never had WMD’s.