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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 27. januar
2005 / Time Line January 27, 2005
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26. Januar 2005, 28. Januar 2005
01/27/2005
Criminals ... The Lot Of Us
by Scott Ritter
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7892.htm
Thursday, January 27, 2005 -- (The Guardian) -- The White House's
acknowledgement last month that the United States has formally
ended its search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq brought to
a close the most calamitous international deception of modern
times.
This decision was taken a month after a contentious presidential
election in which the issue of WMD and the war in Iraq played a
central role. In the lead-up to the invasion, and throughout its
aftermath, President Bush was unwavering in his conviction that
Iraq had WMD, and that this posed a threat to the US and the world.
The failure to find WMD should have been his Achilles heel, but the
Democratic contender, John Kerry, floundered, changing his position
on WMD and Iraq many times.
Ironically, it was Kerry who forced the Bush administration to
acknowledge that it was WMD that solely justified any military
action against Iraq. Before the US Senate in 2002, secretary of
state Colin Powell responded to a question posed by Kerry about
what would happen if Iraq allowed UN weapons inspectors to return
and they found the country had in fact disarmed.
"If Iraq was disarmed as a result of an inspection regime that gave
us and the security council confidence that it had been disarmed, I
think it unlikely that we would find a casus belli."
01/27/2005
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