Saturday, January 10, 2004
US disbands Iraq team looking for battle weapons.
The Pentagon has pulled out the 400-strong military team which was searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, but US officers insisted yesterday that the hunt would go on.
Presumerably on the principle of "Our new WMD-detection team is standing over there. Only smart, insanely right-wing Bush-supporters can see them".
Yesterday, the US secretary of State, Colin Powell, acknowledged that he saw no "smoking gun, concrete evidence" of ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida terror network, but insisted that Iraq had dangerous weapons and needed to be disarmed by force.
And next time there's a story about how there aren't any WMD someone in the UK or US administrations will talk about how, no, there isn't any proof, but Iraq was working with Al- Qaeda. Then when there's a story about how proof of links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda haven't been found then someone will say "but he was oppressing his people" then, when it's pointed out that Iraqi's, while grateful for the US's help want the Allies gone, and that the US betrayed the people of Iraq after the First Gulf War by inciting them to rise up, then not helping them overthrow Saddam, someone will say "but Saddam had WMD"...
It's the same old story. There's a number of unjustified excuses for going to war. Whichever one is being disproven at the moment, simply choose another one and go with that.
Meanwhile, someone gets a bit overexcited and shoots their load too soon. Sorry, you're not right, but please feel free to try again in the future.
The Pentagon has pulled out the 400-strong military team which was searching Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, but US officers insisted yesterday that the hunt would go on.
Presumerably on the principle of "Our new WMD-detection team is standing over there. Only smart, insanely right-wing Bush-supporters can see them".
Yesterday, the US secretary of State, Colin Powell, acknowledged that he saw no "smoking gun, concrete evidence" of ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida terror network, but insisted that Iraq had dangerous weapons and needed to be disarmed by force.
And next time there's a story about how there aren't any WMD someone in the UK or US administrations will talk about how, no, there isn't any proof, but Iraq was working with Al- Qaeda. Then when there's a story about how proof of links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda haven't been found then someone will say "but he was oppressing his people" then, when it's pointed out that Iraqi's, while grateful for the US's help want the Allies gone, and that the US betrayed the people of Iraq after the First Gulf War by inciting them to rise up, then not helping them overthrow Saddam, someone will say "but Saddam had WMD"...
It's the same old story. There's a number of unjustified excuses for going to war. Whichever one is being disproven at the moment, simply choose another one and go with that.
Meanwhile, someone gets a bit overexcited and shoots their load too soon. Sorry, you're not right, but please feel free to try again in the future.
