Finding Weapons of Mass Destruction

Every one from Joi Ito to Bill O’Reilly is asking questions about the finding of weapons of mass destruction. George Bush says they will be found. I simply don’t care. I never thought the war was about finding weapons of mass destruction. It was about accounting for weapons of mass destruction. On December 7, 2002, Iraq was required under UN Resolution 1441 to present documents accounting for their weapons of mass destruction. On January 27, 2003 Hans Blix told the UN, “When we have urged our Iraqi counterparts to present more evidence, we have all too often met the response that there are no more documents. All existing relevant documents have been presented, we are told. All documents relating to the biological weapons programme were destroyed together with the weapons. However, Iraq has all the archives of the Government and its various departments, institutions and mechanisms. It should have budgetary documents, requests for funds and reports on how they have been used. It should also have letters of credit and bills of lading, reports on production and losses of material.” Whether Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction at that point was unknown. The fact that they utterly refused to account from them was not.

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