ManoNegra#47
Na álljunk meg egy pillanatra! A casus belli az volt, hogy aktívan gyártják a tömegpusztító fegyvereket, és hogy atombombát készítenek. Ehhez képest találtak rég elhagyott robbanófejeket, amik mustárgázt tartalmaztak? Olyan anyagokat, amelyek bevetéséhez még az Irán elleni háborúban az amerikaiaktól kaptak segítséget?
De hogy tisztán lássunk, az általad linkelt cikkből:
The discoveries of these chemical weapons did not support the government's invasion rationale.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Mr. Bush insisted that Mr. Hussein was hiding an active weapons of mass destruction program, in defiance of international will and at the world's risk. United Nations inspectors said they could not find evidence for these claims.
Then, during the long occupation, American troops began encountering old chemical munitions in hidden caches and roadside bombs. Typically 155-millimeter artillery shells or 122-millimeter rockets, they were remnants of an arms program Iraq had rushed into production in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.
All had been manufactured before 1991, participants said. Filthy, rusty or corroded, a large fraction of them could not be readily identified as chemical weapons at all. Some were empty, though many of them still contained potent mustard agent or residual sarin. Most could not have been used as designed, and when they ruptured dispersed the chemical agents over a limited area, according to those who collected the majority of them.
Azt mindenki tudta, hogy lehetnek olyan maradék vegyi fegyverei, amit még a kurdok ellen használt, de ha valóban ez ellen indították volna a háborút, akkor most azt hordoznák mint a véres kardot.