Wednesday, January 29, 2003

On Bartcop Forum, Santoshi notices:


The UN mandate is for weapons inspectors to disarm Iraq, not for Iraq to disarm.

http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/toc.html

UNMOVIC : Basic facts

The United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
was created through the adoption of Security Council resolution 1284 of 17 December
1999. UNMOVIC was to replace the former UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) and
continue with the latter’s

mandate to disarm Iraq

of its weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological weapons and missiles with a
range of more than 150 km), and to operate a system of ongoing monitoring and
verification to check Iraq’s compliance with its obligations not to reacquire the
same weapons prohibited to it by the Security Council."

Obviously Bushco did not read it, so they make up the part about Iraq's burden of proof of NOT having WMD.

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