Re: Mark Danner on the British Smoking-Gun Memo
"Iraq violated the terms of the Gulf War ceasefire by refusing to accomodate weapons inspectors and honor the no fly zone. "
The no-fly zones were not part of the ceasefire agreement ; this is just another excuse for the war dreamed up by embarassed war supporters trying to justify their decision in the light of the absence of WMD.
Regarding the refusal to accomodate weapons inspectors, immediately prior to the war the inspecotrs were in Iraq, broadly happy with the access and cooperation they were being given, searching the sites US and UK intelligence had indicated were WMD storage sites, reporting back to the UN on their progress, asking to be allowed to finish their job, and pointing out that there was no real evidence that Iraq possessed any WMD.
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