12/30/2003
Politics and the 2004 Presidential campaign aside, both Democrats as well as Republicans in Washington have long known that Saddam Hussein was doing everything in his power to violate the UN sanctions imposed on him and to rebuild his military capability. Unfortunately for all of us, the political silly season is now in full swing and the war in Iraq is just too valuable a political topic for President Bush’s opponents to ignore. As such they have continually hammered him on two topics:
1) Where is Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein and why have we not gotten them?
2) Where are the WMD and why have we not discovered them?
Well, part of the first question was answered recently with Saddam Hussein’s arrest, after he gave up without a fight (as cowards often do when confronted by superior power), and the second question looks as if it is on its way to being answered as well. A very detailed and comprehensive article published today in the LA Times entitled [url=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-iraqarms30dec30,1,7925533.story?coll=la-home-headlines]Banned Arms Flowed Into Iraq Through Syrian Firm[/url] gives us the first true picture of how Saddam was able to easily get around the UN sanctions imposed on his regime and purchase all kinds of weapons and supplies that were on the list of sanctioned materials. While the issue of WMD purchases or shipments is still up in the air, this at least is a very solid beginning in uncovering a highly organized and secretive operation which was, apparently, easily avoided detection by UN inspectors.
I would say the other valuable lesson taught in this article is why the President acted with such urgency against Saddam and did not give inspectors more time as so many of his opponents seemed to want. If the President suspected even half of what has been recently revealed, then I think the American people will understand how justified he was in taking such decisive action against Hussein.
To the Democrats in Washington I can only say that I’m sorry. None of the information you see in this article is going to do much to help your party in November of 2004. Next time, you might want to moderate your stance a bit rather than gambling on the honesty of a man like Saddam Hussein.
David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com
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