UN weapons inspectors report

Urban Ranger · February 15, 2003, 11:17

I hope this thread doesn't get closed.

Quote:

The presentations by chief weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei were far more measured than the harsh assessments of Iraq they issued two weeks ago to the council.

The response to their reports makes it highly unlikely the United States could muster the nine votes needed to authorize war now. Without nine votes, France, China and Russia would not be placed in the position of having to exercise their vetoes.

full article

AP article

BBC's summary on the report

Starchild · February 15, 2003, 11:51

All I get is an error 404: Weapons Not Found.

http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

alva · February 15, 2003, 11:53

Should be error 1441 though

Sava · February 15, 2003, 12:24

damn hippie peacenik
[/stupid hawk]

DinoDoc · February 15, 2003, 12:26

Yet another BBC link

Urban Ranger · February 16, 2003, 01:20

Seems like Blair is softening, and W. is just a shade less hawkish.

Velociryx · February 16, 2003, 01:41

Yep....my reading is "tone down the rhetoric *just enough* to build broad-based support, then hit him."

-=Vel=-

skye820 · February 16, 2003, 01:45

Hans Blix and Co were hired to write a report on what they were shown in Iraq. They were shown nothing therefore he reported nothing. Hans was hired to report what he saw, not question what he was shown.

"as she rolls her eyes"

Spiffor · February 16, 2003, 01:48

I agree with Vel here.
It'll buy enough time to European governments to convince their population that Saddam has exhausted his last chances. The European media will change to bear a pro-war message, and we'll have a beautiful slaughter with plenty of support, like Daddy had.
All Euro countries will lick the generosity of the US, and everybody will be happy. Except the dead, the crippled, the wounded and their families, but who cares anyways ?

skye820 · February 16, 2003, 01:51

Except the dead, the crippled, the wounded and their families, but who cares anyways ? [/QUOTE]

HMMMM...............JUST LIKE THE VICTIMS AND THE FAMILIES OF 9/11, EH?

Spiffor · February 16, 2003, 01:58

Yes, just like them. But the Iraqis will get less attention.

Velociryx · February 16, 2003, 02:02

Spiffor....this really will not do! You and I keep agreeing, we're going to be *totally* flying in the face of all those "USA-EU Growing Rift" arguments.....

-=Vel=-

Oerdin · February 16, 2003, 02:10

They don't have to be dead or wounded. They could be defectors or deserters. The choice is theirs.

Boris Godunov · February 16, 2003, 03:51

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Originally posted by skye820
HMMMM...............JUST LIKE THE VICTIMS AND THE FAMILIES OF 9/11, EH?

HMMM........WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH IRAQ?

(Hint: nothing.)

Starchild · February 16, 2003, 08:02

Now Boris, don't go ruining a nice unfounded link between al-Qaeda and Iraq with such harsh things as the facts. Yes, of course everyone knows that not a single 9-11 terrorist was an Iraqi (the close allies Saudia Arabia and Egypt provided the rich, fertile crop of jihad-junkies) and that bin Laden hated the Iraqi regime until talk of war in a Muslim country got blasted all over the news (say what you will, you gotta admit bin Laden knows how to spin is stuff. He latches onto whatever's gonna enrage the Muslim street.)

I mean, such things do get in the way of happy caps lock fun.

Urban Ranger · February 16, 2003, 13:33

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Originally posted by Velociryx
Yep....my reading is "tone down the rhetoric *just enough* to build broad-based support, then hit him."

-=Vel=-

How will they do that? If W. and lackeys have any sort of thing that resembles evidence, he would have whip it out already. The support for a war has been dropping in the US, and anti-war sentiments have been building up. Powell didn't provide anything new. Blix axed all his sat photos. Blair's report - lets not get into Blair's report.