Iraq unconditionally accepts return of U.N. weapons inspectors

[Mani]

Originally posted by: globalstud

Originally posted by: Mani
And yet we'll still try to find an excuse to go to war with them.

Back up that statement with fact. Until then, it's a dumbass statement, sorry.

I feel no need to qualify a statement I make for some dork on the internet named globalstud. You'll see what I mean soon enough.

If that's not enough for you, take a look at how dismissive the Bush administration is of Iraq's pledge.

 

[Random Variable]

Iraq's pledge

This is their 17th pledge in 11 years.

 

[Mani]

Yes, and the US has been just great with keeping its international pledges.

 

[shiner]

Just heard on Fox News that Iraq has said it will only allow inspections at military bases and not civilian locations. Trying to get a second source to verify but that doesn't sound very unconditional to me.

 

[ToBeMe]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Just heard on Fox News that Iraq has said it will only allow inspections at military bases and not civilian locations. Trying to get a second source to verify but that doesn't sound very unconditional to me.

You mean like this?????

• BBC Report: Iraq's 'Unconditional' Inspection Offer Has Conditions
  
  Iraq's so-called unconditional offer to let weapons inspectors return to the country with unfettered access to search anything they want turns out to have conditions attached, London's Evening Standard reported Tuesday.
  
  The restrictions were confirmed by Ali Muhsen Hamid, the London ambassador of the Arab League, the organization that negotiated the terms of the new inspection regime.
  
  "We support anywhere, (for inspections), but not, as some people have suggested, for inspections against hospitals, against schools," Hamid told the Standard.
  
  Hospitals are among key sites for inspections because of evidence that Baghdad uses health laboratories to manufacture viruses for biological weapons, noted the paper.
  
  A spokesman for the Arab League confirmed the limitations, claiming that allowing inspectors full access would take too long.
  
  Iraq has also designated some of its military facilities as "presidential palaces," placing them off limits to inspectors as well.
  

 

[shiner]

That's it exactly!!!

 

[SuperTool]

I think we should insist on total access. I don't think Iraq will make a big fuss over this.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

So, like I said in another related thread, send lots and lots of troops to Saudi Arabia. Then insist on unfettered access. At that point, they can choose.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
I think we should insist on total access. I don't think Iraq will make a big fuss over this.

You seem to have missed this point:

This is their 17th pledge in 11 years.

and this point:

Iraq's so-called unconditional offer to let weapons inspectors return to the country with unfettered access to search anything they want turns out to have conditions attached, London's Evening Standard reported Tuesday..........

.........."We support anywhere, (for inspections), but not, as some people have suggested, for inspections against hospitals, against schools," Hamid told the Standard.

Hospitals are among key sites for inspections because of evidence that Baghdad uses health laboratories to manufacture viruses for biological weapons, noted the paper.

 

[rickn]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
I think we should insist on total access. I don't think Iraq will make a big fuss over this.

sure. that's like asking Dom DeLuise to ignore the dessert table

 

[clarkmo]

Yep, it's bull. Conservative estimates indicate it will take 90 days to figure out the inspection party and 6 months for a preliminary report. That's if you can round up the 67 chemical/biological inspectors and 17 nuclear inspectors that are scattered around the globe. Given his history and the conditions, (What part of unconditional don't you understand?, heh,heh ,couldn't resist) I would not go along with any of it unless inspections could be conducted immediately with U.S. armed forces scientists flying in this month, accompanied by armed support personnel and vehicles. Sorry, the hostage risk is too great and puttiing his doomsday off 1/2 a year only works to Saddam's advantage. I know he wouldn't agree to that, but that's ok. He'll be inspecting his hospitals close up soon, I suspect, and we will be in the "presidential palaces". Did they really use that term? Don't they understand that their "presidential palaces" are being held up in scorn by the world? Golly, these guys are nuts.

 

[JellyBaby]

Golly, these guys are nuts.

Can't disagree there. I wouldn't be too worried about the hostage scenario -- they'd have done it last time if they thought it was to their advantage. It would gain them nothing and destroy all remaining sympathy generated by the misdeeds of the US and UN.