joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >Lie No. 4: "Peaceful efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime
> have failed again
> >and again because we are not dealing with peaceful men."
> >
> >According to the Washington Post of March 16, referring
> to the 1991-1998
> >inspection period: "[U]nder UN supervision, Iraq
> destroyed 817 of 819
> >proscribed medium-range missiles, 14 launchers, 9
> trailers and 56 fixed
> >missile-launch sites. It also destroyed 73 of 75
> chemical or biological
> >warheads and 163 warheads for conventional explosives.
> UN inspectors also
> >supervised destruction of 88,000 filled and unfilled
> chemical munitions,
> >more than 600 tons of weaponized and bulk chemical
> weapons agents, 4,000
> >tons of precursor chemicals and 980 pieces of equipment
> considered key to
> >production of such weapons."
This is usually my tripping point when arguing an anti war position....The pro war folks say that it was only because of the threat of force that Iraq was into disarmament....What's a good counter to that? --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]