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The Eve of Destruction
Next week will be downright exciting. Hans Blix reports to the United Nations Monday, George Bush delivers his State of the Union speech, Tuesday evening. The U.S. may or may not suddenly unload a lot of information upon the U.N. Something dramatic is likely, for the U.S. President is going to war in Iraq, and must take as much of the world with him as he can. At the least, I know the Americans are sitting on copies of Saddam Hussein's actual orders to prepare nerve gas attacks against U.S. troops, complete with atropine and chemical suit inventories -- only three weeks old. (The BBC now has these, too.) They also have Saddam's instructions for attacking U.S. Navy ships in the Gulf. They have satellite photographs showing Iraqi ground movements at locations before and after U.N. inspections. They have logged information they gave to Mr. Blix's inspection teams, and which they failed to act upon. They have intercepts of conversations between Kofi Annan and Tariq Aziz. And this is only what I know about, I'm sure there is much, much more...[see article] Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-26 |
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