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by Buck • 8:56 am
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Waldo is no more. The Mrs. bashed him in the head with a shovel and buried his arse in the back yard long ago. What do y’a say we keep looking for him anyways?
U.N. team still looking for Iraq’s WMD
Though work is seen as irrelevant, Security Council can-t agree to end it
UNITED NATIONS - More than four years after the fall of Baghdad, the United Nations is spending millions of dollars in Iraqi oil money to continue the hunt for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.
[...]“I recognize this is unhealthy,” said Dimitri Perricos, a Greek weapons expert who runs the team, known as the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC), and manages its $10 million annual budget. But, he added, “we are not the ones who are holding the purse; the one who is holding the purse is the council.”
A-There is no WMD there-
But the inspectors’ primary mission — ridding Hussein’s regime of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons — has become irrelevant since a U.S.-led coalition toppled the Iraqi leader and discovered that his government had destroyed its most lethal weapons shortly after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
“The reality on the ground is there is no WMD there,” said Charles Duelfer, a former U.N. weapons inspector who published the landmark 2004 report of the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, which concluded that Iraq’s weapons had been destroyed. “I think they understand the distance their work is from reality.”
Full article at MSNBC.com





