| Wednesday, April 16, 2003 |
 | So, let me make sure I've got this right.
The US wants to lift sanctions against Iraq, on the reasonably coherent logic that the conditions under which they were levelled no longer pertain.
However, one of the conditions of the end of sanctions is the the Iraqi WMD program is shown to be abandoned. Right now, we can't even find the WMD program, much less confirm its abandonment. So, there is no way currently to prove that the as-yet-unestablished Iraqi administration has destroyed all research into the as-yet-undiscovered weapons of mass destruction.
However, raising the sanctions would require the vote of the UN Security Council. Remember those guys? And, unless the sanctions are lifted, the sale of Iraq's oil still has to go through the aforementioned UN Security Council. Who right now have something of a majority mad-on at the US. Who want sanctions to be lifted.
Is that all right? If so, I can only say, dude....
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