George Walker Bush and his administration acted ILLEGALLY in the Iraq invasion.
There was never suppose to be an invasion if Iraq was found to be free of any WMD. There were none. Iraq was disarmed. As a matter of fact there were missiles found to exceed the Iraq border by a few miles by the inspectors. Those missiles were dismantled and buried in the Iraqi desert. So, when there was a violation found with anything in Iraq it was remedied right there and then.
The weapon inspectors were Mohamed ElBaradei for the nuclear capacity of Iraq and Hans Blix for the chemical and biological capacity of Iraq.
18 March 2004
By Bonnie Azab Powell
BERKELEY – Speaking on the anniversary of the United States' invasion of Iraq, (click here) originally declared as a pre-emptive strike against a madman ready to deploy weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the man first charged with finding those weapons said that the U.S. government has "the same mind frame as the witch hunters of the past" — looking for evidence to support a foregone conclusion.
"There were about 700 inspections, and in no case did we find weapons of mass destruction," said Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat called out of retirement to serve as the United Nations' chief weapons inspector from 2000 to 2003; from 1981 to 1997 he headed the International Atomic Energy Agency. "We went to sites [in Iraq] given to us by intelligence, and only in three cases did we find something" - a stash of nuclear documents, some Vulcan boosters, and several empty warheads for chemical weapons. More inspections were required to determine whether these findings were the "tip of the iceberg" or simply fragments remaining from that deadly iceberg's past destruction, Blix said he told the United Nations Security Council. However, his work in Iraq was cut short when the United States and the United Kingdom took disarmament into their own hands in March of last year....
There was never suppose to be an invasion if Iraq was found to be free of any WMD. There were none. Iraq was disarmed. As a matter of fact there were missiles found to exceed the Iraq border by a few miles by the inspectors. Those missiles were dismantled and buried in the Iraqi desert. So, when there was a violation found with anything in Iraq it was remedied right there and then.
The weapon inspectors were Mohamed ElBaradei for the nuclear capacity of Iraq and Hans Blix for the chemical and biological capacity of Iraq.
18 March 2004
By Bonnie Azab Powell
BERKELEY – Speaking on the anniversary of the United States' invasion of Iraq, (click here) originally declared as a pre-emptive strike against a madman ready to deploy weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), the man first charged with finding those weapons said that the U.S. government has "the same mind frame as the witch hunters of the past" — looking for evidence to support a foregone conclusion.
"There were about 700 inspections, and in no case did we find weapons of mass destruction," said Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat called out of retirement to serve as the United Nations' chief weapons inspector from 2000 to 2003; from 1981 to 1997 he headed the International Atomic Energy Agency. "We went to sites [in Iraq] given to us by intelligence, and only in three cases did we find something" - a stash of nuclear documents, some Vulcan boosters, and several empty warheads for chemical weapons. More inspections were required to determine whether these findings were the "tip of the iceberg" or simply fragments remaining from that deadly iceberg's past destruction, Blix said he told the United Nations Security Council. However, his work in Iraq was cut short when the United States and the United Kingdom took disarmament into their own hands in March of last year....
