IRAQ AND ARMS INSPECTORS: THE BIG LIE - PART 1
Introduction
To read the 34 short pages (pp.20-54) at the heart of former chief UN arms
inspector Scott Ritter's book, War On Iraq (Ritter and William Rivers Pitt,
Profile Books, 2002), is to understand the utter fraudulence and staggering
immorality of the proposed war on Iraq. In these pages, Ritter describes
exactly how and why Iraq has been "fundamentally disarmed", with 90-95% of
its weapons of mass destruction eliminated. Of nuclear weapons capability,
for example, Ritter says:
"When I left Iraq in 1998... the infrastructure and facilities had been 100%
eliminated. There's no doubt about that. All of their instruments and
facilities had been destroyed. The weapons design facility had been
destroyed. The production equipment had been hunted down and destroyed. And
we had in place means to monitor - both from vehicles and from the air - the
gamma rays that accompany attempts to enrich uranium or plutonium. We never
found anything." (p.26)
Ritter explains how UN arms inspectors (Unscom) roamed the country
monitoring Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear facilities, installing
sensitive sniffers and cameras and performing no-notice inspections:
"We blanketed Iraq - every research and development facility, every
university, every school, every hospital, every beer factory..." (p.38)
Introduction
To read the 34 short pages (pp.20-54) at the heart of former chief UN arms
inspector Scott Ritter's book, War On Iraq (Ritter and William Rivers Pitt,
Profile Books, 2002), is to understand the utter fraudulence and staggering
immorality of the proposed war on Iraq. In these pages, Ritter describes
exactly how and why Iraq has been "fundamentally disarmed", with 90-95% of
its weapons of mass destruction eliminated. Of nuclear weapons capability,
for example, Ritter says:
"When I left Iraq in 1998... the infrastructure and facilities had been 100%
eliminated. There's no doubt about that. All of their instruments and
facilities had been destroyed. The weapons design facility had been
destroyed. The production equipment had been hunted down and destroyed. And
we had in place means to monitor - both from vehicles and from the air - the
gamma rays that accompany attempts to enrich uranium or plutonium. We never
found anything." (p.26)
Ritter explains how UN arms inspectors (Unscom) roamed the country
monitoring Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear facilities, installing
sensitive sniffers and cameras and performing no-notice inspections:
"We blanketed Iraq - every research and development facility, every
university, every school, every hospital, every beer factory..." (p.38)