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| Iraq: We have no more to declare |
| 2003-03-03 |
| Iraq said yesterday that it had nothing more to declare to the UN on its weapons programme and warned that it might stop the destruction of its al-Samoud 2 missiles if America continued to threaten it with war. "We ain't got nuttin, and we ain't ditchin' any of it either!" Lieutenant-General Amer al-Saadi, the chief weapons adviser to Saddam Hussein, accused George Bush and Tony Blair of trying to engineer "a war driven by greed". General Saadi said Baghdad might cease scrapping the missiles if it believed Washington was going to ignore the UN Security Council. "If it turns out at an early stage during this month that America is not going to behave in a legal way, why should we continue?" he said. Always enjoyable to listen to an Iraqi Iraq has destroyed 10 missiles Yep, sure would. Hence the squawking. The claim that Iraq has fulfilled all its UN obligations is also likely to be used by Washington and London as evidence that President Saddam is not prepared to "fully disarm". Yep, sure would. General Saadi said: "Practically all the areas of concern to Unmovic [the UN inspection team] and the subjects of remaining disarmament questions have been addressed." "Fine, you won't mind us then bringing in about 225,000 inspectors and advisors for a look-see, now would you?" |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 from Boortz' site, and originally in AJC: âHans Blix talks about Iraqi cooperation the same way a battered woman talks about her abusive boyfriend's promise to change.â |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-03-03 17:48:44 |
| #2 Powell: "Where's the proof that they have destroyed these rockets?" Blix: "Stupid idiot! It was on CNN!" |
| Posted by: RW 2003-03-03 13:21:24 |
| #1 ..Watched the films of the Al-Samouds being destroyed on CNN this morning. I told my son a few days ago that if you gave me some paint, plywood, and some aluminum ductwork, I could make all kinds of missiles to destroy for the cameras - and it looks like I wasn't that far off. All they were showing were empty casings - no indications that there had ever been a solid rocket motor in there, no plumbing for wiring and control systems, nuttin. On top of that, they were doing it in what looked to be an alleyway between two buildings, using a skiploader. Not even the Iraqis are that dumb. (Full Disclosure - I did 20 years in the USAF as a munitions specialist, working on air to air and air to ground missiles.) Mike |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-03-03 12:12:36 |