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It's confirmed: France WILL veto no matter what!
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He does not give any detailed specs on the drones (in the report more information is given - however, this was not in the report given to the US and UK before the presentation; it was also not mentioned in the presentation). He also did not mention the cluster bombs that can be used to deploy chemical weapons.
I am sure blix will explain them away as being remotely piloted crop dusters and nothing else.
Why the sarcasm?
Andy
Is it just not the case that they are still investigating these - and that to make a quick (and possibly incorrect) decision could start a war - so they are making sure they're right first. As I said above people have been wrong with respect to "nuclear" issues - so I believe they are merely being ambivilent until they are certain.
Andy
These discoveries are worth mentioning, even if they are unsure of their intended purposed. All they have to do is state they are unsure of their purpose and being further investigated.
Not disclosing is quite dishonest.
And I still have not heard what those aluminum tubes that Iraq is not supposed to have are being used for. Has anyone else heard?
They did state - in the briefing - that they are currently investigating the drones. I don't see any dishonesty there.
The aluminium tubes are for producing missiles (within UN prescribed limits) as part of their reverse engineering programme. The Atomic Inspector chap went into quite a lot of detail with regard to the issue of nuclear parts/materials. I'm sure you can read about it in the transcript.
Andy
He mentioned the inspection of the drones in the presentation, but not the findings. On page 13 of the Unresolved Disarmament Issues report, the specifications of the drones are given. If these were known prior to the presentation, they should have been discussed at length - not avoided.
flamingelephant
Golden Member
France has a couple billion dollars in oil deals with Iraq... if the Iraqui regime was overthrown, they would all be void. Thats why they dont want the invasion.!
Looks like we both are correct.
Drones declared in blix report, but Iraq did not declare them.
This was not mentioned as an obvious act of non compliance.
With regard to NK. IMHO there aren't so much options - as an option.
NK is playing up at the moment - maybe they'll maintain this stance - maybe they'll back down in the furture once they need the foreign aid? Who knows? What I do know is that you obviously can't trust them - and worse than that you can't effectively blackmail them either. If they do not want to be dependant on US aid you can't force them. If they can't be contained and controlled through blackmail - then as quite a few on this board seem to be saying - some advocate military conflict. IMHO this would be a [/b]hugely[/b] costly and dangerous move and not one that should be taken without imminent, real threat from NK. They have nuclear weapons/materials - and in my mind taking on a country with a nuclear capability (or high probability thereof) is a very, very, very bad idea. Far, far too much risk involved for casualties, escalation, etc. especially since the region is so near to the Chinese border. I cannot think of a single example of an open armed conflict between two nuclear powers (someone correct me if you can). An incredibly dangerous precedent to set.
IMHO, the only viable option is to pressurise a quai-friendly NK aquaitance (i.e. China) to engage the NK with a view to peace brokering with the south. Not an easy choice by any means - but the only one that can possibly work without slaughtering thousands and endangering the security of everybody. The best tool for putting pressure on the Chinese/making them realise this is the only solution is.... the UN.
Andy
NK is playing up at the moment - maybe they'll maintain this stance - maybe they'll back down in the furture once they need the foreign aid? Who knows? What I do know is that you obviously can't trust them - and worse than that you can't effectively blackmail them either. If they do not want to be dependant on US aid you can't force them. If they can't be contained and controlled through blackmail - then as quite a few on this board seem to be saying - some advocate military conflict. IMHO this would be a [/b]hugely[/b] costly and dangerous move and not one that should be taken without imminent, real threat from NK. They have nuclear weapons/materials - and in my mind taking on a country with a nuclear capability (or high probability thereof) is a very, very, very bad idea. Far, far too much risk involved for casualties, escalation, etc. especially since the region is so near to the Chinese border. I cannot think of a single example of an open armed conflict between two nuclear powers (someone correct me if you can). An incredibly dangerous precedent to set.
IMHO, the only viable option is to pressurise a quai-friendly NK aquaitance (i.e. China) to engage the NK with a view to peace brokering with the south. Not an easy choice by any means - but the only one that can possibly work without slaughtering thousands and endangering the security of everybody. The best tool for putting pressure on the Chinese/making them realise this is the only solution is.... the UN.
Andy
MrDingleDangle
Lifer
this thread is getting confusing with a third of the people talking about Blix/UN, a third talking about N.K. and a third randomly bashing the french
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