This isn't about Blair's future. It is much more serious
Matthew d'Ancona takes the high view:
…the beneficial consequences of the conflict have already been plentiful. Libya has agreed to disarm its WMD. Iran has admitted the International Atomic Energy Authority to inspect its nuclear plant. UN investigators in Tripoli and Tehran helped to uncover the astonishing trade in nuclear technology masterminded by the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. These are notable victories in the struggle to prevent rogue states developing WMD which might fall into the hands of fundamentalist terrorists.
Worth a read I'd say.
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Of course. That's what it was about. The WMD business has been blown up out of all proportion because because it's all the blowers up have. It was a silly bit stuck in because someone thought it would scare us. Which in the case of some of the screamers it certainly has.
Saddam had disobeyed all those feeble UN orders - he certainly had WMDs because he'd used them on the Iranians, the Kurds, and his own people. They've not been found - well, missiles have, and mobile laboratories that could have been used to make biological weapons - but in any case imagine if a similar bad guy had been hiding WMDs in the Scottish highlands. Or indeed in some of the thickly populated parts of Greater London. And Iraq is much bigger.
But the missing WMDs have now entered folk-lore.
Of course. That's what it was about. The WMD business has been blown up out of all proportion because because it's all the blowers up have. It was a silly bit stuck in because someone thought it would scare us. Which in the case of some of the screamers it certainly has.
Posted by Baklanova on February 27, 2004Saddam had disobeyed all those feeble UN orders - he certainly had WMDs because he'd used them on the Iranians, the Kurds, and his own people. They've not been found - well, missiles have, and mobile laboratories that could have been used to make biological weapons - but in any case imagine if a similar bad guy had been hiding WMDs in the Scottish highlands. Or indeed in some of the thickly populated parts of Greater London. And Iraq is much bigger.
But the missing WMDs have now entered folk-lore.