07 October 2004 Blog Home : October 2004 : Permalink
Reading the ISG reports, the details in the news articles and the blog posts about them we see that Saddam Hussein did everything he could to subvert the UN inspectors and the permenant UNSC.members Russia, France and China. Furthermore, hidden at the bottom of the news articles is the information that despite Saddam not having stockpiles of WMD he did everything he could to make sure that his WMD programs could be started at extremely short notice.
Even, for the sake of argument, ignoring the Hussein regime's human rights record and links to terrorism etc., the justification of toppling Hussein is IMHO proven on strict legalistic grounds sincethe ISG has proven that Hussein was in violation of UN resolution 1441 and numerous previous ones dating all the way back to the cease fire at the end of the first Gulf War.
Despite this we have the "Not in our Name" antiwar protesters and their apologists in the media and leftwing political groups stating that we should not have gone to war. In other words we should have rewarded a regime that did its best to evade its treaty obligations, bribe its inspectors and had no intention what so ever of not producing WMD in the future.
We now see precisely how much deterrent the UN is to the rogue regimes of the world and the answer is not a pretty one for those people who defend the UN. Regretfully it looks like Darfur, despite all the attention, is going to confirm that answer, namely that