Iraq Since the Gulf War
The Gulf War left Saddam Hussein in power, which was the one mistake of then
President George Bush. Instead of finishing off Saddam, the United States chose
to contain him, Iraq was to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction, which
still has not been done according to
UN Resolutions, and for providing some protection for Iraq's ethnic
minorities (Shi'ites in the south and Kurds in the north - Both of which Saddam
has used chemical weapons on). To try to get Baghdad to destroy its ballistic
missile and weapons of mass destruction programs, the United Nations sent
monitors and inspectors to conduct intrusive inspections. These inspections
were hampered by Saddam at every chance, and were eventually sent out of Iraq
for four years. (See
Defiance of UN Resolutions)
The United Nations also imposed economic sanctions on Iraq for invading Kuwait
in August 1990. To protect Iraq's ethnic minorities, safe havens were established
and later expanded by the creation of no-fly zones patrolled by U.S., British
and, initially, French combat aircraft.
Aided by superior U.S. Intelligence Services information and brave Iraqi defectors,
U.N. inspectors uncovered a staggering amount of evidence of Iraqi weapons of
mass destruction programs, including an incipient nuclear weapons capability,
huge stocks of chemical agents, extremely large inventories of biological weapons, production facilities
for biological weapons, and an arsenal of ballistic missiles capable of delivering
the deadly payloads as far as Israel. Inspectors attempted to destroy completely these
capabilities, but concluded that more arms, especially missiles and germ weapons,
remained well hidden and were lied to and blocked from visiting suspected sites.
When Iraq kicked out inspections in 1998, the United States and Britain bombed
all suspected weapons of mass destruction sites. The inspectors never returned
for four more years, leaving Saddam to reconstitute his weapons programs.
Since the time that Iraq kicked out the inspectors, sanctions have weakened by U.N. complacency
and ignorance, particularly France, Germany and Russia. The U.S and British threat
of force has since contained Hussein's evil ambitions. But both these elements
of the containment strategy are under attack by the very countries that have
already weakened the Resolutions, France, Germany and Russia, as well as Iraq
itself. Sanctions have been blamed for the Iraqi people's suffering instead of
rightly blaming Saddam Hussein, who even has committed Genocide on his own people.
Iraq is allowed to use the proceeds of its large, though controlled,
oil exports, primarily to France, Russia and Germany, to meet all humanitarian
needs, but Saddam continues to divert the money to weapons of mass destruction
programs, making his people starve. The use of force to back up containment has
also become increasingly unacceptable to Arabs in the street, but the time is
drawing close when the world will see the lies and deceptions of Saddam Hussein
for what they are and the U.S. and British forces will demolish the Iraqi forces
and depose Saddam from power.
Today, the United States' and George Bush with Britain and Tony Blair, stand virtually alone in support
of forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm as required by U.N Resolutions. Saddam doesn't
stand a chance, and his greatest mistake would be to attack Americans or Britains
on our home soil with his weapons of mass destruction. It would be the last
action Saddam ever takes.
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quoted from the Bush White House website prior to the War on Iraq, and early into the war(2003). USResolve.org
does not endorse the information provided by the White House website, it remains here ONLY as an
historical record.
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