Where Are Iraq’s Weapons Of Mass Destruction?

What Hutton didn’t ask

So, Tony Blair And George Bush…

Where Are Iraq’s Weapons Of Mass Destruction?

  • CIA OFFICIAL David Kay (the neo-conservative picked by Bush
    to head the Iraq Survey Group searching for WMDs), has resigned. Much to the
    president’s and Tony Blair’s dismay Kay quit after his 400-strong military unit
    failed to discover such weapons.

"I don’t think they existed," Kay said.
"What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of
the last Gulf War [1991] and I don’t think there was a large-scale production
programme in the 90s."

  • IN DECEMBER 2003 former chief UN weapons inspector Hans
    Blix dismissed claims made by Tony Blair on the British Forces Broadcasting
    Service that the Iraq Survey Group had uncovered "massive" evidence
    of a system of secret laboratories in Iraq.

  • EVEN SECRETARY of State Colin Powell now has his doubts
    about discovering WMDs in Iraq. He recently told reporters that it was an
    "open question" whether Iraq had any stocks of weapons of mass
    destruction at all.

  • INSIDER PAUL O’Neill, George Bush’s former treasury
    secretary and cabinet member, said that within days of taking office in January
    2001 the US president was plotting the downfall of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
    This was before the 11 September attacks after which Bush cynically linked the
    issue of WMDs and terrorism to Iraq.

  • THE CARNEGIE Endowment for International Peace issued a
    report last month flatly contradicting the US and British government WMD
    claims, saying there is "no evidence of any Iraqi nuclear programme".

  • THE WASHINGTON Post earlier last month produced evidence
    confirming that Iraq destroyed its biological weapons after the first Gulf War
    in 1991.

"…MORE THAN seven months after the declared end of
major hostilities, weapons of mass destruction have not been found. No
significant pre-war link between Saddam Hussein and international terrorism has
been discovered. The difficulty of establishing stable institutions in Iraq is
making the country an increasingly unlikely staging ground for promoting
democracy in the Middle East…

…In sum, the invasion of Iraq failed to meet the test for
a humanitarian intervention. …Intervention was not motivated primarily by
humanitarian concerns…"

(War in Iraq: Not a Humanitarian Intervention, Human Rights
Watch, World Report 2004.)

NO WMDs, no terrorist links, no democracy and no
humanitarian reasons. The real reason for Bush and Blair’s war on Iraq is the
imperialist aims of the US and British governments – oil supplies and the
geo-political control of the Middle East.

That’s why we say; bring the troops back, support a genuine
democratic workers’ and peasants’ government in Iraq, build an international
socialist movement to end poverty and national conflict.