Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong

You may remember that in 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, the United Nations Security Council ordered Iraq to produce a report detailing all of its biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons past and present. Iraqi officials complied and produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq’s weapons programs. The report described all the chemical and biological weapons the country once had where they came from and what was done with them as well as what had happened to Iraq’s nuclear weapons program.

Although the report was prepared for the United Nations, U.S. officials intercepted the report, edited out 8,000 pages (over two thirds) of it, and delivered its Reader’s Digest version of the report to the UN.

A German reporter managed to obtain a copy of the original report from Iraq, and then compared it with the truncated copy the U.S. gave to the UN. He found that the missing parts covered the Iraqis’ acquisition of chemical and biological weapons from the U.S., the delivery of non-fissionable materials for a nuclear bomb by the U.S. to the Iraqis, and the training of Iraqi nuclear scientists at U.S. nuclear facilities in Los Alamos, Sandia, and Berkeley.

And as for Annan’s comments that

….it was ‘unfortunate’ that his organisation had allowed the US to take the only complete dossier and edit it.

…. he’s wrong, based on what was done with that edited report and how it was used it’s not unfortunate - it’s criminal, and someone at the UN should be held responsible in that light.