SADDAM and WMD-Twist or Spin?

The further the Conflict in Iraq intensifies, the lamer the reasoning for going to War in the first place appears to look. Although the wording and reasoning have changed with the circumstances, with every new report that emerges about failure to locate WMD, the more evil Saddam Hussein's 'intentions to acquire' appear to be.

The Iraq Survey Group's report on Wednesday, suggested Iraq's nuclear capability had decayed, not advanced since the 1991 Gulf War. Nevertheless, Mr Straw thought the report proves that "in terms of his intention", Saddam was an "even starker" threat than thought. For Mr Blair, the report confirmed his fears, not that WMD had been found but the report's suggestion that Saddam Hussein intended to resume production of banned weapons when he could.

Where sanctions and no fly zones in the 1990's had suffocated Saddam's ability to even service his rusting tanks, his alleged links to Al-Qaida forcefully put in the run-up to the war were only tamely withdrawn by the very people who made them in the first place viz. Donald Rumsfield.

Can the electorate and their representatives, many of whom faithfully and unquestionably accepted the decision to go to war, also tolerate the current spin that Mr. Hussein had future intentions to obtain WMD even though we had already effectively made it impossible for him to do so!

The quote of the week is reserved for the Iraqi Interim Government's deputy Prime Minister Dr. Saleh who considered that, "Saddam Hussein was himself a weapon of mass destruction."