thanks,
kirsten
> by Todd Gitlin
> Mother Jones (September/October 1999)
>
> ... Had I known then what I
> learned five years later, knowledge would have in my
> case trumped temperament cleanly. For in 1995, I
> heard the unimpeachable U.N. Special Commission chief > Rolf Ekeus report that during his missions in Iraq he
> had confirmed some of the U.N.'s most fearful
> projections: When the Gulf War began, Saddam had 25 > missile warheads loaded with anthrax, intended for a
> surprise attack, and was a few months short of having
> a usable nuclear missile. His compunctions about
> using such weapons were nil, of course. Sanctions, in > hindsight, wouldn't have worked, Ekeus thought, and
> so the war had been a just war after all.