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June 05, 2003
The Arab News Weighs In On Iraq’s Missing Weapons

How about this from the Saudi Arabian Arab News:

With the liberation of Iraq the “Don’t-Touch-Saddam” lobby has transformed into a hunt party to chase British Prime Minister Tony Blair out of office.

The claim is that Blair “lied” about the reasons for the war against Saddam. A few months before the war, Blair published a dossier on Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. At the time, some of us realized that the Blair dossier contained many flaws. But that did mean that there was no justification for going to war against Saddam. Saddam’s program of weapons of mass destruction was only one of many issues between him the United Nations.

And then there's this:
It is important to recall all this to show that the case of taking action against Saddam was not exclusively based on the issue of weapons of mass destruction. Finding and getting rid of weapons of mass destruction in the Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and South Africa took between 18 and 30 months, even though all actively cooperated with the UN. Thus, it is fanciful that similar results could be achieved in Iraq in a few weeks. Not finding the WMDs in a fixed timeframe does not mean that they never existed.
Read, as they say, the rest.

Posted By Alan at June 5, 2003 10:56 PM | TrackBack
Comments

WTF!!!!

It's scary when "The Arab News" prints articles that are more reasonable than the tripe in Salon or
The San Francisco Chronical.

Posted by: joshua scholar at June 6, 2003 04:39 AM

Wow, what a change since the Al Jazeera days of April. This supports my theory on the Arab mentality, they swing from rampant bombast and unrealistic ambitions to cold hard pragmatism in a heartbeat. With no stops in between. Arabs have no 'ideology' in the Western sense. They rely on either mad dreams of glory, or brutal acceptance of the status quo. Case in point see Palestinians, Leadership.

Posted by: Mark Buehner at June 6, 2003 12:16 PM

Was this the english online version or the Arab?

There can be a big difference...

Posted by: devils chewtoy at June 6, 2003 12:47 PM

DC ... English ... would love to have someone who's read the original check for any differences ...

Posted by: Alan at June 6, 2003 02:48 PM

Oh, right. This might be that "Arab" newspaper that's written in California. Yep the editor lives in the states. I bet it's for American consumption.

Posted by: Joshua Scholar at June 6, 2003 08:27 PM

Thanks, and I guess I will stick to waiting for it to come on MEMRI.

Posted by: devils chewtoy at June 6, 2003 09:53 PM

Does it really matter what the newspapers say? Not only do people have to be literate, they have to read what the newspapers say. I think it far more important what the television stations are broadcasting. T.V. reaches the masses who do not have to be able to read.

I am amazed how many people still believe that the artifacts in the Iraqi Museum are lost forever.

Posted by: Belle at June 8, 2003 04:03 PM
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