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Thread #81771   Message #1499754
Posted By: CarolC
03-Jun-05 - 07:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: So.....you say Bush lied?
Subject: RE: BS: So.....you say Bush lied?
Actually, the UN stated in December that the Iraqi response to the FINAL RESOLUTION ( Last chance ) was NON-COMPLIANT with the resolution. At that point, the UN stated that Iraq had not fulfilled it's required actions for the cease-fire ending the fighting of the Kuwait war.

Based on the documentation provided by you, beardedbruce, this statement is incorrect. The last chance to accept the resolution was November 15. Iraq accepted the resolution on November 13. I do not see any specific deadline in either of your links for full compliance with all of the details of the agreement.

The report from Hans Blix dated March 7 (after the report you cite from December) was "seen as broadly positive", and Blix requested more time ("months rather than weeks or days") to complete the disarmament and verification process. So prior to the war, the UN, through its representative, Hans Blix, was unequivocally stating that it wanted the inspections to continue and that it did not approve of any unilateral invasions of Iraq by any countries, either individually or collectively, outside of the authority of the UN.

The UN was very consistant in the language of its resolutions. Excerpted from the second of your two links:

10.    Requests all Member States to give full support to UNMOVIC and the IAEA in the discharge of their mandates, including by providing any information related to prohibited programmes or other aspects of their mandates, including on Iraqi attempts since 1998 to acquire prohibited items, and by recommending sites to be inspected, persons to be interviewed, conditions of such interviews, and data to be collected, the results of which shall be reported to the Council by UNMOVIC and the IAEA;

14.    Decides to remain seized of the matter.


By invading Iraq, the US violated number 10 of that particular resolution, because the US invasion caused the inspectors to have to leave Iraq before they finished doing the job that they were mandated to do by the UN.