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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door maddox
Daarom ook dat het redelijk gemakkelijk was de VN te overtuigen dat Irak chemische wapens in voorraad had. De VS had de leverbonnen liggen.
Iran leverde levende bewijzen met mosterdgasoverlevenden van hun menselijk golf-aanvallen.
De Koerden kunnen het ook niet hoog genoeg van de daken schreeuwen.
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En dan ?
Tussen een ´paar overschotten´ kunnen hebben, in ´voorraad´ na x-jaren, en het inzetten van WMD is een groot verschil.
De VN was niet overtuigd dat Saddam die "wapens" kon inzetten op grote schaal. Ik zie dingske (Colin Powell) nog met zijn fake chemische camion tekeninkjes bij de VN.
En J. Fischer (D-minister van Buitenlandse Zaken) was helemaal niet overtuigd en haalde uit naar Rumsfeld. (ik zie het nog voor me op de Duitse TV), bestaan blijkbaar nog maar weing video´s van.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-Rumsfeld.html
12:01AM GMT 10 Feb 2003
Thumping his hand on the table, his voice rising, Joschka Fischer delivered the most memorable performance of his career as he took on the might of the United States administration and told them he was not convinced of the case for war.
The former 1960s activist - who once beat up a policeman in an anti-war demonstration - stunned the chandeliered hall at an international security conference in Munich into silence as he slipped into English to ensure his message would be understood by Donald Rumsfeld.
Mr Fischer discarded a speech which had been written for him, and referred instead to his own brief notes. In German, he referred to Saddam Hussein as a "horrible dictator" who had weapons of mass destruction and had bombed his neighbours.
But that, he said, was not argument enough for going to war. "My generation learned you must make a case, and excuse me, I am not convinced," the Green politician shouted in English while directing his gaze, teacher-like, over silver half-moon frames, at the United States defence secretary.
"That is my problem," he said. "I cannot go to the public and say, 'these are the reasons', because I don't believe in them."
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