Pretty Scary Stuff

[nicky g]

"The Duelfer report shows that Saddam would be able to reconstitute WMD production very quickly, indeed within months for certain agents. "

Any backwards ass regime in the world could begin production of "certain ("WMD") agents" within a few months; some things just aren't that difficult to produce. The fact is he wasn't producing them and there was an extremely detailed monitoring system which had prevented WMD production for a decade and was continuinf to prevent him from producing them. Furthermore there was no evidence he had the slightest bit of intention to using any WMD at any point against the US and the WMD he could have resumed producing would by and large not be useful for the terrorists who do want to attack the US (ie al-Qaida), whom he wasn't working with anyway.

All the Duelfer report found was that Iraq "retained the knowledge base" for production of some substances (ie those scientists were still around and had that knowledge; well what should they have done, killed them? Sent them to work on US or Israeli WMD programmes?) and that Saddam would have tried to do "whatever it takes" to defend Iraq against an attack from Iran . Oh and that he was working to "undermine" the sanctions (whereas any other country would of course have sat back and let its economy be completely wrecked for as long as the US and the UK thought necessary). He had no WMD, he had no active WMD programmes and he was confined by a massive monitoring system that would have stayed in place regardless of whether or not the sanctions were lifted. That you guys are still trying to defend the war on WMD grounds after all that happened is quite simply pathetic. Are you seriously saying the war was legitimate because he could have at some undefined point in the future have resumed production of some kind of WMD? Even if it were true, which it isn't because of the monitoring system, noone would have supported a war based on that. "We need to invade Iraq because at some point in the future Saddam could resume production of some kinds of chemical weapons". Come on.

That's my post for the month.