UN Iraq Inspectors Say U.S. Has Not Cooperated

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. arms inspectors on Tuesday complained that a lack of cooperation by the United States had stymied their efforts to completely account for Iraqi weapons.


The latest quarterly report by the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, known as UNMOVIC, says Washington never gave the commission a copy of U.S. inspector David Kay's findings on Iraqi weapons, and it failed to seek any U.N. information for Kay's team.


U.N. inspectors withdrew from Iraq (news - web sites) a year ago, shortly before the U.S.-led invasion of the country. After the war, the United States deployed its own team under Kay and refused to allow U.N. inspectors to return. Kay's team concluded that Iraq did not have stockpiles banned weapons as alleged by President Bush (news - web sites) in making his case for war.


"During the period under review, no official information was available to UNMOVIC on either the work of, or the results of, the investigations of the United States-led Iraq Survey Group in Iraq. Nor has the (U.S.) survey group requested any information from UNMOVIC," the U.N. report said.

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[Malva Zebrina]

1. Is anyone surprised?

we are supposed to feel safer under this regime? Instead we find they are a cheap bunch of somabitches who lie, cheat and do things in our government secretely--so that their own citizens cannot even demand an accounting from these bastard crooks.

I am not surprised. This is the corporate control that is obvious in a fascist state--and I believe that is what we currently have here. A government run like a corporation--totally out of touch, indeed, even disdainful, of the people that live and work in American. Except of course for the 1% of the upper rich who got fantastic tax breaks.

It is no longer my beloved country--the one I knew and grew up in, and the one that once was proud and upstanding a beacon of democracy for others to follow--it is now a nation of greedy, war mongering, orgasmic at the thought of war and killing, little, pathetic thin skinned man, who runs away from the slightest bit of threat and is proud of it--even sells photos of himself running away, and fools pay $150 for photos of a coward pretending to be in control of things while running away from some perceived danger.

[underpants]

2. UN Resolution 1441

http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/02110803.htm

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;

[mistertrickster]

3. Using Bush "logic," they are now entitled to invade the US using

shock and awe. And we'll be out on the streets throwing flowers at them . . .