From: "Mark" 


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> I'm afraid I simply don't see that logic. But if you can read the below
>> pieces and the report itself following those and still come to that
>> conclusion - then run and vote Kerry early and often.
>
> Perhaps you too should do a bit of reading and let hindsight open your
> eyes a
> bit.
>
> http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2003/17300.htm

Yes, exactly. That confirms why the WMD don't matter. This is an important
day for us all as we review the situation with respect to Iraq and its
disarmament obligations under UN Security Council
**********Resolution 1441*********

Last November 8, this Council passed ***********Resolution 1441********* by
a unanimous vote. The purpose of that resolution was to disarm Iraq of its
weapons of mass destruction. Iraq had ************already been found guilty
of material breach of its obligations stretching back over 16 previous
resolutions and 12 years.*************


You know the basic facts. Iraq has not complied with its obligation to
allow immediate, unimpeded, unrestricted and private access to all
officials and other persons, ***************as required by Resolution
1441****************. The regime only allows interviews with inspectors in
the presence of an Iraqi official, a minder. The official Iraqi
organization charged with facilitating inspections announced publicly and
announced ominously, that, "Nobody is ready" to leave Iraq to be
interviewed.

Iraq did not meet its *************obligations under 1441************** to
provide a comprehensive list of scientists associated with its weapons of
mass destruction programs. Iraq's list was out of date and contained only
about 500 names despite the fact that UNSCOM had earlier put together a
list of about 3,500 names.

Saddam Hussein also said that scientists should be told not to agree to
leave Iraq; anyone who agreed to be interviewed outside Iraq would be
treated as a spy. This **************violates 1441**************.

It goes on and on and on. As the examples I have just presented show, the
information and intelligence we have gathered point to an active and
systematic effort on the part of the Iraqi regime to keep key materials and
people from the inspectors, in *******************direct violation of
Resolution 1441**************.

Operative Paragraph 4 of **************UN Resolution 1441*************,
which we lingered over so long last fall, clearly states that false
statements and omissions in the declaration and a failure by Iraq at any
time to comply with and cooperate fully in the implementation of this
resolution shall constitute -- ********the facts speak for themselves --
shall constitute a further material breach of its obligation.************

Iraq has now placed itself in danger of the serious consequences called for
in *************UN Resolution 1441***********. And this body places itself
in danger of irrelevance if it allows Iraq to continue to defy its will
without responding effectively and immediately.

Iraq also has refused to permit any U-2 reconnaissance flights that would
give the inspectors a better sense of what's being moved before, during and
after inspections. This refusal to allow this kind of reconnaissance is
**********in direct, specific violation of operative paragraph seven of our
Resolution 1441*************.

My colleagues, we have an obligation to our citizens. We have an obligation
to this body to see that our resolutions are complied with. We wrote
***1441**** not in order to go to war. We wrote *****1441***** to try to
preserve the peace. We wrote ****1441**** to give Iraq one last chance.

Iraq is not, so far, taking that one last chance.

We must not shrink from whatever is ahead of us. We must not fail in our
duty and our responsibility to the citizens of the countries that are
represented by this body.

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