[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Bush Aide: "Inspections Or Not, We'll Attack Iraq"

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> "War, Whatever" Bush Aide: "Inspections Or Not, We'll Attack Iraq"
> 
> By Paul Gilfeather, Whitehall Editor Daily Mirror UK
> 
> November 22, 2002 (published Nov. 24)
> 
> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=
> 12377231&method=full&siteid=50143
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> George Bush's top security adviser last night admitted the US would
> attack Iraq even if UN inspectors fail to find weapons.
> 
> Dr Richard Perle stunned MPs by insisting a "clean bill of health"
> from UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix would not halt America's
> war machine.
> 
> Evidence from ONE witness on Saddam Hussein's weapons programme
> will be enough to trigger a fresh military onslaught, he told an
> all- party meeting on global security.
> 
> Former de fence minister and Labour backbencher Peter Kilfoyle
> said: "America is duping the world into believing it supports these
> inspections. President Bush intends to go to war even if inspectors
> find nothing.
> 
> "This make a mockery of the whole process and exposes America's
> real determination to bomb Iraq."
> 
> Dr Perle told MPs: "I cannot see how Hans Blix can state more than
> he can know. All he can know is the results of his own
> investigations. And that does not prove Saddam does not have
> weapons of mass destruction."
> 
> The chairman of America's de fence policy board said: "Suppose we
> are able to find someone who has been involved in the development
> of weapons and he says there are stores of nerve agents. But you
> cannot find them because they are so well hidden.
> 
> "Do you actually have to take possession of the nerve agents to
> convince? We are not dealing with a situation where you can expect
> co-operation."
> 
> Mr Kilfoyle said MPs would be horrified at the admission. He added:
> "Because Saddam is so hated in Iraq, it would be easy to find
> someone to say they witnessed weapons building.
> 
> "Perle says the Americans would be satisfied with such claims even
> if no real evidence was produced.
> 
> "That's a terrifying prospect."
> 
> 
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