BBC Reports: Saddam Enrages Bush With Full Compliance
 

Saddam Enrages Bush With Full Compliance

WASHINGTON, DC?President Bush expressed frustration and anger Monday over a U.N. report stating that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is now fully complying with weapons inspections. "Enough is enough," a determined Bush told reporters. "We are not fooled by Saddam's devious attempts to sway world opinion by doing everything the U.N. asked him to do. We will not be intimidated into backing down and, if we have any say in the matter, neither will Saddam." Bush added that any further Iraqi attempt to meet the demands of the U.N. or U.S. will be regarded as "an act of war."

prop a ghan duh

Monday's news isn't news on thursday, i don't think, is it?

To Bush haters it doesn't matter when the news was made and what may have changed since then.:)

That report was from theonion.com ... always funny stuff there.

I say blast the head of that fucker Saddam

That's not what the US is saying......In Today's Paper!


New Iraqi missile breaks U.N. limit
Inspectors' first finding of active-arms violation

By Julia Preston and Eric Schmitt
New York Times
Feb. 13, 2003


UNITED NATIONS - A panel of arms experts has advised the U.N. weapons inspectors that a missile that Iraq has developed exceeds U.N. range limits.


This is the first finding by the inspections teams of a violation by Baghdad with currently active weapons, U.N. diplomats and weapons officials said Wednesday.

The panel's conclusion will add fuel to the U.S. argument that Iraq is defying Security Council disarmament resolutions, and it is likely to deepen the discord at the United Nations over whether to go to war against Iraq or allow inspections to continue, as several key council nations insist.

In an atmosphere of tension, Germany, France and Russia surprised the United States on Wednesday by laying plans for an open meeting of council foreign ministers on Friday to hear the report of the chief weapons inspectors, Hans Blix and Mohammed ElBaradei.

Pentagon officials said Wednesday that Iraqi forces had moved explosives into the southern part of the country in preparation for blowing up bridges and dams and igniting oil fields to slow a U.S. attack. The officials said the tactic would impede an allied effort to provide emergency food and relief to millions of Iraqi civilians.

Military officials said they detected suspicious movements of explosives by rail and other means in recent days, and interpreted it as part of a strategy by President Saddam Hussein to create havoc in the opening moments of a war. Top U.S. commanders say their war plan includes measures to prevent or mitigate Iraqi sabotage and will not hinder their assault, but some senior officers have expressed doubts privately.

The panel of independent missile experts at the United Nations reached its conclusion on Iraq's al-Samoud 2 missile after meetings Monday and Tuesday in New York. The panel, including one American, was convened by Blix to provide additional technical support in analyzing the missile.

Blix has already told the council that the missiles appeared to be a "prima facie" case of a violation by Iraq of the 90-mile range limit established by the Security Council. The missiles have already been given to the Iraqi armed forces, he said. The panel did not reach a conclusion about a second missile, al-Fatah, but said it required further study.

Until now, the United States' argument for war has been based mainly on negatives, particularly its contention that Iraq has failed to cooperate with council-mandated inspections and has not provided thorough proof that it destroyed weapons it was known to have in the past.

it <i>does</i> smell like onions in here.

By only 24 miles...

I smell them also..

You didn't quote the source? I'd be interested to check out the whole story. Let us know
:Graucho

the source: http://gullible-is-not-in-the-dictionary.com