Tuesday, March 02, 2004

UN: Iraq Had No WMDs After 1994

From USA Today:
A report from U.N. weapons inspectors to be released today says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of any significance in Iraq after 1994, according to two U.N. diplomats who have seen the document.

The historical review of inspections in Iraq is the first outside study to confirm the recent conclusion by David Kay, the former U.S. chief inspector, that Iraq had no banned weapons before last year's U.S-led invasion. It also goes further than prewar U.N. reports, which said no weapons had been found but noted that Iraq had not fully accounted for weapons it was known to have had at the end of the Gulf War in 1991.

Matt's Chat

Headline is a bit misleading, I think. The article says that no weapons have been found (duh! no news there), but also says Iraq didn't account for all that they had (breach of UN resolutions). So this report won't be the smoking gun that the hamsters will make it out to be...

Mark's Remarks


More CYA from the Unimportant Nobodies and liberals. This is ridiculous. It is meant as a smear that there were no weapons. Well, IF this report is true, then quite frankly, Bill Clinton's administration was lying, the French for the past 12 years have been lying, as have every major intelligence agency around the world and the UN. This is nothing more than CYA by an organization that is beyond irrelevant, it is a parody of what it was meant to do.