NWI Insights - Where are the weapons of mass destruction?

Last week a report on NWI focused on the element of the war in Iraq that has been recently pushed to the sidelines but was the reason for legitimizing a war in the first place, Iraq's vast supply of chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.

The report by CBC explains that, in Kuwait before the war there was a great deal of concern and preparation by the soldiers and the city which was bracing itself for a chemical attack once the war began. However so far there has been little sign of chemical or biological agents in Iraq, only chemical warfare suits, gas masks and some white powder. The recent findings of drums which could possibly contain nerve agents and mustard gas were not hailed as evidence but approached with caution by the US administration. So far no biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq

In an interview, a Canadian member of the UN weapons inspectors asserted that much of the weapons arsenal had already been destroyed. A former CIA analyst contended that Saddam would have used chemical or biological weapons in the war if he still had them and that such weapons were unlikely to be found in Iraq unless they were 'arranged' to be found. On this note, the report emphasized that the UN are keen to take over the search for weapons of mass destruction as soon as possible. The US declared its resolve to find the weapons of mass destruction once the first accomplishment, regime change, was achieved

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