Blair’s dossier
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Excerpts From Britian’s Dossier
Here is a bullet point list of Blair’s accusations agaisnt Saddam:
–Continued to produce chemical and biological agents.
–Military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, including against its own Shia population. Some of these weapons are deployable within 45 minutes of an order to use them.
–Command and control arrangements in place to use chemical and biological weapons.
–Developed mobile laboratories for military use.
–Pursued illegal programs to procure controlled materials of potential use in the production of chemical and biological weapons programs.
–Tried covertly to acquire technology and materials which could be used in the production of nuclear weapons.
–Sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa, despite having no active civil nuclear power program that could require it.
–Recalled specialists to work on its nuclear program.
–Illegally retained up to 20 al-Hussein missiles, with a range of 400 miles, capable of carrying chemical or biological warheads.
–Started deploying its al-Samoud liquid propellant missile, and has used the absence of weapons inspectors to work on extending its range to at least 125 miles, which is beyond the limit of 90 miles imposed by the United Nations.
–Started producing the solid-propellant Ababil-100, and is making efforts to extend its range to at least 125 miles, which is beyond the limit of 90 miles imposed by the United Nations.
–Constructed a new engine test stand for the development of missiles capable of reaching the U.K. Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus and NATO members (Greece and Turkey), as well as all Iraq’s Gulf neighbors and Israel.
–Pursued illegal programs to procure materials for use in its illegal development of long range missiles.
–Learned lessons from previous U.N. weapons inspections and already begun to conceal sensitive equipment and documentation in advance of the return of inspectors.
Well, yeah, we knew this already. Once again, the argument devolves into “Saddam is a bad man”. Yes, but so is Putin, so is Musharref, so are the clerics running Iran, so is the leadership of Iran, so is the president of Uzbekistan, etc, etc,etc.
Why is Saddam the bad guy at the top of the list? Why is Saddam no longer deterrable? Once again, the proponents of the war have not even attempted to answer the only relevant questions.
