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Thursday, January 23, 2003
posted by gbarto at 6:48 PM:
Iraq Says Scientists Demanded Gov't Officials Attend U.N. InterviewsWell... what would you expect them to say? "Ya know? If it's up to me, I'd really like to give the impression that I have things to say that these people with power over the lives of me and my family shouldn't hear."
Please. Like so much of what the UN gets involved in, this is just plain idiotic. Interviewing scientists is worthless so long as the penalties for ratting out Iraq are potentially greater than the penalties Iraq would face for forcing silence or getting caught in a lie.
My suggestion, though neither cheap nor pleasant follows thus: Any site the Iraqis refuse to let us inspect, we bomb. Any site where we find things the Iraqis weren't straight with us about, we bomb. And - here's the fun one - for every third weapon the Iraqis were supposed to destroy but won't account for, we bomb a presidential palace. I'll bet they'd cooperate with inspections very quickly under such an inspection regime.
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