Originally posted by: etech
Originally posted by: aswedc
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: aswedc
If it means dozens of US soldiers dead...lets do it?
If it means we're holding a double standard for other countries (ahem North Korea)...lets do it?
double standard? we're letting china, SK, and japan take care of it, since they're so obviously able to and have such obvious interests in a stable peninsula.
Let China and South Korea
take care of it? You mean let them beg NK to put down the nukes with no consequences while we tell Saddam he has to prove he has no nukes in record time or we kick his ass? How can the US and the UN have any legitimacy being the "worlds police" (and thats what we are, don't deny it, what has Saddam done to us?) with behavior like this?
"Record time." Hehe, that's funny.
Under UNSCR 687
Under UNSCR 687 - UN Special Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency were given the remit to designate any locations for inspection at any time, review any document and interview any scientist, technician or other individual and seize any prohibited items for destruction.
UNSCR 687 stated that Iraq had to give "full, final and complete disclosures" to its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles with a range over 150 kilometers.
To date they have given:
3 full, final and complete disclosures with regard to ballistic missiles;
3 full, final and complete disclosures with regard to chemical weapons; and
5 full, final and complete disclosures with regard to biological weapons.
3 Apr 1991
U.N. Security Council Resolution 687 (1991), Section C, declares that Iraq shall accept unconditionally, under international supervision, the "destruction, removal or rendering harmless" of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles with a range over 150 kilometers. Requires Iraq to make a declaration, within 15 days, of the location, amounts, and types of all such items.
10 Apr 1991
Iraq accepts Resolution 687.
18 Apr 1991
Iraq provides initial declaration required under Resolution 687. This declaration includes some chemical weapons and materials and 53 Al-Hussein and Scud type surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. Iraq declares it has no biological weapons program.
16 May 1991
Iraq submits revised declarations covering additional chemical weapons and a refinement of its missile declaration.
May 1991
Through an exchange of letters between U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz, Iraq accepts the privileges and immunities of the Special Commission (UNSCOM) and its personnel. These guarantees include the right of "unrestricted freedom of entry and exit without delay or hindrance of its personnel, property, supplies, equipment ..."
9 Jun 1991
UNSCOM conducts its first chemical weapons inspection.
17 Jun 1991
The Security Council adopts Resolution 699, which confirms that the Special Commission and the IAEA have the authority to conduct activities under section C of Resolution 687.
30 Jun 1991
UNSCOM conducts its first missile inspection.
2 Aug 1991
UNSCOM conducts its first biological weapons inspection.
15 Aug 1991
The Security Council adopts Resolution 707, demanding that Iraq immediately provide full, final and complete disclosures (FFCDs), as required by Resolution 687.
19 Mar 1992
Iraq declares the existence of 89 previously undeclared ballistic missiles, chemical weapons and associated material. Iraq claims that it unilaterally destroyed most of these undeclared items in the summer of 1991, in violation of Resolution 687.
May 1992
Iraq provides its first FFCDs for its prohibited biological and missile programs. Iraq says it had only a defensive biological weapons program.
Jun 1992
Iraq provides its first FFCD for its prohibited chemical weapons program.
Mar 1995
Iraq provides the second FFCD of its prohibited biological and chemical weapons programs.
Aug 1995
Iraq provides the third FFCD for its prohibited biological weapons program.
8 Aug 1995
General Hussein Kamel, Minister of Industry and Minerals and formerly Director of Iraq's Military Industrialization Corporation with responsibility for all of Iraq's weapons programs, leaves Iraq for Jordan.
Iraq says that Hussein Kamel had hidden important information on the prohibited weapons programs from UNSCOM and the IAEA.
Iraq withdraws its third biological FFCD and admits a far more extensive prohibited biological weapons program than previously admitted, including weaponization.
Iraq also admits greater progress in its efforts to indigenously produce long-range missiles than it had previously declared.
Iraq provides UNSCOM and the IAEA with large amounts of documentation related to its prohibited weapons programs which subsequently leads to further Iraqi disclosures concerning its production of the nerve agent VX and its development of a nuclear weapon.
Nov 1995
Iraq provides second FFCD on its prohibited missile program.
Nov 1995
The government of Jordan intercepts a large shipment of high-grade missile components destined for Iraq.
Iraq denies that it had sought to purchase these components, while acknowledging that some of them were in Iraq. An UNSCOM investigation concludes that Iraqi authorities and missile facilities have been involved in acquiring sophisticated guidance and control components for proscribed missiles.
22 Jun 1996
Iraq provides the fourth FFCD of its prohibited biological weapons program.
Jun 1996
Iraq provides third FFCD of its prohibited chemical weapons program.
Jul 1996
Iraq provides the third FFCD of its prohibited missile program.
Sep 1997
Iraq provides a fifth FFCD for its prohibited biological weapons program.
Oct 1997
UNSCOM completes the destruction of additional large quantities of chemical weapons, related equipment, and precursor chemicals. Iraq had previously denied that some of the equipment had been used for chemical weapons production. Iraq admitted in May 1997, following an UNSCOM investigation, that some of the equipment had been used in the production of VX.
Early Feb 1998
A group of international experts and UNSCOM inspectors conduct two technical evaluation meetings (TEM) in Baghdad, reviewing Iraq?s VX and missile warhead programs.
The report submitted to the Security Council states the group?s unanimous conclusion that Iraq has still not provided sufficient information for the commission to conclude that Iraq had undertaken all the disarmament steps required of it in these areas. The commission?s experts brief the Council on the outcome of these two TEMs in March 1998.
8 Apr 1998
The report of the biological weapons technical evaluation meeting is transmitted to the council. Following this TEM, experts unanimously conclude that Iraq?s declaration on its biological weapons program is incomplete and inadequate.
5 Aug 1998
The Revolutionary Command Council and the Ba?ath Party Command decide to stop cooperating with UNSCOM and the IAEA until the Security Council agrees to lift the oil embargo as a first step towards ending sanctions.
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