REMEMBER THESE WORDS WHEN WE OPEN IRAQ’S WEAPONS VAULTS <\/b><\/p>\n
From the AP “….Before Annan closed the three-hour meeting, the world’s staunchest opponents of invading Iraq told the Security Council there was no proof Saddam Hussein posed a threat. <\/p>\n
“If today, we really had indisputable facts demonstrating that from the territory of Iraq there was a direct threat to the United States,” Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said Wednesday, his country would use “any means” to help. <\/p>\n
But no proof has been produced, Ivanov said, and the Security Council had been brushed aside. <\/p>\n
His determined remarks were coordinated with the foreign ministers of France and Germany, who also addressed the council in a symbolic protest that was highly unlikely to affect Washington’s resolve to topple the Iraqi president. <\/p>\n
“Germany emphatically rejects the impending war,” Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said. Iraqi was slow and misleading during the inspection process, but can such tactics “seriously be regarded as grounds for war?” he asked. <\/b><\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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