Kudos to Tony Blair, UK PM

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  • Englishman
    Englishman

    OK, I've had a few beers, so I wouldn't normally post anything in case I regretted it later. Not so easy to delete things these days.

    However this one seems safe enough, so here goes. TB has drawn a distinction between who is deemed OK to have weapons of mass destruction, and who is not. The OK's include UK, US, OZ because they are democracies, and China. The border liners are India and Pakistan, the OK criteria comes from the knowledge that their weapons are most likely only ever going to be used against each other anyway, so, for the rest of the world, it's no big deal.

    Saddam is a no-no. Saddam has used chemical weapons aginst his own people, the Kurds. He has launched missiles at Israel too. He has publicly stated that he wants to annihilate Jews and Persians (Iranians).

    Delivery. He couldn't launch anything at the US at present. London is a lot closer, he could do damage possibly by the fourth protocol technique ( a DIY bomb assembled in the country to be targetted).

    I'm convinced, send in the SAS!

    Englishman.

  • borgfree
    borgfree

    For those who want to assign wrong motives to George W. Bush,

    "If Saddam Hussein fails to comply and we fail to act or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop his program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of sanctions and ignore the commitments he's made? Well, he will conclude that the international community's lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on doing more to build an arsenal of devastating destruction. If we fail to respond today, Saddam and all those who would follow in his footsteps will be emboldened tomorrow. The stakes could not be higher. Some way, someday, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal." Bill Clinton - 1998
    Borgfree

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