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Lies, damn lies and the war on Saddam Hussein
(Adrian Hamilton, The Independent, 21 December 2002)
I can't be alone in feeling a gathering sense of disgust, nausea in fact, at the pantomine being played out in the UN. . . . What I mean is the current charade of inspectors, reports and judgements that everyone knows to be a travesty but in which all the participants have to act as if they are playing for real. . . . The hurdles are not primarily intended to get at the facts of Saddam's weapons programme. They were, and are, a process of deliberate humiliation aimed at forcing Saddam into a clear breach of UN terms and/or a position where his fellow generals will remove him without the need for invasion. . . . The inspectors are forced into becoming attack dogs for a superpower that really wants them to savage the prey to the point of death. The Security Council members are being made accomplices of a policy when America has not even agreed to abide by any of their decisions. Nobody dares to say no to Washington. . . . This is about America and its desire to change the regime in Baghdad. Nothing else. . . . American public opinion can change the course – and already has by expressing its strong preference for multinational rather than unilateral action. But the rest of us – the UN, Britain, America's allies or the Arab world – have no say in the matter. And it's fantasy for anyone to say otherwise.

posted by LoZo 6:20 PM