Blix: Iraq not cooperating fully

[TheEvilOne]

By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer

UNITED NATIONS - Top weapons inspector Hans Blix on Monday said Baghdad had not genuinely accepted U.N. resolutions demanding that it disarm, while his counterpart Mohamed ElBaradei said there was no evidence so far that Iraq was reviving its nuclear program and asked for a "few months" to complete the search.

The Bush administration dismissed Iraqi cooperation as inadequate, and U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said he had heard nothing that gave "any hope that Iraq will disarm" voluntarily.

Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said inspectors' findings "came as no surprise" and that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) has "not much more time" to comply if he wants to avoid war.

According to the report, Iraq has not provided sufficient evidence that many of the weapons that they declared were destroyed, and there is also some evidence that they may still exist. If Iraq has truly disarmed, as they claim, why don't they cooperate better with the inspections? I personally think that they are hiding something.

[amb3]

Iraq doesn't want a war. They may hate the Western world, but they're not stupid. They know that the UN may not back up the United States right now, but if there is a war (and probably will be in the next months) some UN countries will help out. Iraq doesn't stand a chance against them all.

Iraq has tried to help the UN. They filed a very large document proving no existance of chemical warfare. They even knocked down some buildings tha the UN thought could be hiding bombs.

I think Bush wants a war for two reasons:
1. It will make him go down in history. This could be good or bad.
2. It will probably raise the American economy. Bush would love to be the one that could brag about saving the economy.

If there is a war, and a draft, I'm going to Canada. :) eh? lol

[Ted-Easton]

The US is looking at only the bad things, and disregarding the fact that the UN weapons inspectors have already said that IAEA has said Iraq is totally compliant, and the UN weapons inpectors have said they have been "more than satasfactory" in their compliance with them.

[TheEvilOne]

At 1/27/03 05:59 PM, Ted_Easton wrote: The US is looking at only the bad things, and disregarding the fact that the UN weapons inspectors have already said that IAEA has said Iraq is totally compliant, and the UN weapons inpectors have said they have been "more than satasfactory" in their compliance with them.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030127/ap_on_re_mi_ ea/un_blix_text_1

The above link is to the full text of Blix's report to the Security Council. Read it for yourself. It's not just the US who says that Iraq is not cooperating fully. I'm not saying that this is definitive proof that Iraq still has weapons of mass destruction, but it would seem to indicate that they are trying to deceive us in some way.

[TheEvilOne]

Dammit, the link isn't working for some reason.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&;u=/ap/20030127/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_blix_text_1

Copy and paste this into the address bar, it should work.

[TheEvilOne]

Those Yahoo links don't seem to be working. Try this.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,76710,00.html

[Ted-Easton]

I have read in other sources about Iraq complying very well, but (unfortuntely) they were off the Internet, and also, people would rather read about how bad Iraq is than hoq good it is. People would rather read regurgitated news (olds). That's why you'll find little on them doing good.