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Bart,
Not sure if you've read from the Institute
of Policy Study's website, Phyllis Bennis' analysis
of the latest UN resolution, but it's really
thorough. Here are some highlights of her analysis.
UN Resolution 1441, Articles 3 & 4 state
that Iraq must perform a pre-inspection of their own and
declare all "chemical, biological and nuclear
weapons, ballistic missiles, and other delivery systems"
within 30 days. If they comply and list
anything, then the US will claim that they're in "material breach"
of UN Resolution 687 and use it to justify
war. If they don't declare anything, then the US will cite
their secret evidence of their WMD programs
and seek war. Sounds like they're damned if they do
and damned if they don't, and we're well
on our way to seizing that Iraqi oil.
This UN resolution also allows the weapons
inspectors to grant asylum to any and all Iraqi scientists,
sets up "exclusion zones" to occupy
their country indefinitely, infuses an unlimited number of "UN Security
Guards" (US armed forces) previously unneeded,
allows unmanned spy planes to fly anywhere, allows
inspectors to secretly export any equipment
regardless of its connection to prohibited weapon making,
and all of the resulting intelligence data
must be shared with the United States effectively making the
inspectors protected US spies. The
bar is set so high that Iraq will have to reject it and face an American
invasion. This is about regime change
and not about Weapons of Mass Destruction otherwise we'd be
doing the same thing to North Korea.
-Kent Bye.
Baltimore, MD
Kent, I agree.
Bush wants that oil, and he doesn't care how many Americas die
getting it.
He's never heard the word "no" in his life,
except when he asked his Daddy, "Do
I have to go to Vietnam?"
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