Re: An Unnecessary War

[Andrew Mearman <ajmearman@xxxxxxxxx>]

It is also interesting that the UNSCOM people on the
ground in Iraq throughout the 1990s report very
confidently that they consider Iraq disarmed, and,
given the monitoring stations they set up in Iraq,
they see very little prospect of Iraq developing such
weaponry.  They also note that the CIA continually
gave them bogus information about possible weapons
manufacture plants, and that successive US
administrations played a game of shifting the
standards for disarmament.  See the film by Scott
Ritter, called "Shifting Sands."

And if the scenario you paint is so plausible, why not
go and bomb the heck out of North Korea right now?
Surely the likelihood of their selling to al-Qaeda any
time soon is greater than Iraq?  But of course, they
have WMDs and therefore they won't be attacked.
Strange, the rules of the nuclear club...

Andrew

> I guess the final wake-up call for balance-of-terror
> romantics will
> come the day when Saddam's maniac of a son has taken
> over and wants to
> be the Leader of the Arab world (i.e. control the
> world economy
> through the region's oil reserves). He sells a nuke
> to al Qaeda, and
> al Qaeda plants it in New York. bin Laden then calls
> the White House
> from a cave in northern Pakistan: "Dismantle the
> state of Israel
> immediately or we pull the trigger".
>
> Try that for balance of terror.
>
> /srl


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