All There Is To Say Was Said Today
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-568294,00.html
Colin Powell in his own words today at U.N.
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This Council placed the burden on Iraq to comply and disarm and not on the inspectors to find that which Iraq has gone out of its way to conceal for so long. Inspectors are inspectors; they are not detectives.
Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons. Saddam Hussein has used such weapons. And Saddam Hussein has no compunction about using them again, against his neighbours and against his own people.
Clearly, Saddam and his regime will stop at nothing until something stops him.
The pattern is not just one of reluctant co-operation, nor is it merely a lack of co-operation. What we see is a deliberate campaign to prevent any meaningful inspection work.
Iraq has now placed itself in danger of the serious consequences called for in UN resolution 1441. And this body places itself in danger of irrelevance if it allows Iraq to defy its will without responding effectively.
Iraq never had any intention of complying with this Council’s mandate.
The hard drives of computers at Iraqi weapons facilities were replaced. Who took the hard drives? Where did they go? What’s being hidden? Why? There’s only one answer to the why: to deceive, to hide.
On orders from Saddam Hussein, Iraqi officials issued a false death certificate for one scientist, and he was sent into hiding.
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If the past 12 years of BS, and now this list (and more) isn't enough, exactly what would be sufficient?