Let's see now.....It has not been proven that Iran has nuclear capabilities at this time. Pakistan, however, does have nukes....is run by a military junta, is home to both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban...... yet it's Iran that "we're" worried about? Oh ya....that makes sense.8O
In fact, as I have pointed out twice now, it has been proven that Iran does not have nuclear weapons capabilities at this time. Ignoring the possibility that they have some uranium that nobody knows about in a plant that nobody knows about. Everything you need to know is
here.
There are warmongers and there are diplomats in this world. I don't know about Saddam Hussein sending assassins after US presidents but I do know the reverse is true. I also know that the first rounds of "weapons inspections" in Iraq failed when Iraq correctly accused weapons inspectors of being spies for the US and UK and using the pretext of weapons inspections to transfer information about military locations. Iraq did not expel the inspectors, instead the US and UK suggested that they leave as they were about to start an extensive bombing about the locations that the spies had pinpointed. You can read all about it
here.
Subsequent to that, Iraq repeatedly requested that weapons inspections renew under safeguards to ensure that further spying did not take place. Their requests were refused by the UN security council. It is not true that Iraq tried to maintain an image of possessing chemical weapons and missiles capable of deploying them, the weapons of mass destruction, instead they were honest in the fact that they had possessed them but destroyed them.
The true pretext of the war cannot possibly have been weapons, if Scott Ritter knew that 90-95% of the chemical weapons capabilities and 100% of the nuclear facilities had been destroyed when he left Iraq in 1998 and subsequent inspectors confirmed further destruction of the weapons, that pretext could only be true if US military intelligence were the only people unaware of actual purposes and accomplishments of weapons inspections.
True Saddam Hussein was a despot, but hegemonic regime change cannot justify the continuing violence in Iraq with no end in sight. Nor can it justify the revisions of history such as statements like 'Iraq expelled weapons inspectors' when in fact the UN ordered them to leave, or 'Iraq did not cooperate on disarmament' when in fact they fully cooperated up to 5% of complete disarmament when the inspectors were withdrawn by the UN to make way for US and UK bombing runs.
If you desire more corroborating evidence of the above history, read the
first and
second articles at Zmag: "Iraq and arms inspections", and read their sources, they are well cited.
