A Grand Jury May Answer the Question: Who Is Accountable for a War Started on The False Claims That Iraq Had WMD?
Mon, 2009-12-28 23:48
(...) In an interview this month in The Washington Post, the former UN chief nuclear weapons inspector and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2005), Mohamed ElBaradei, was asked why the United States got it so wrong on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. ElBaradei responded that he has discovered that the United States decision to go to war was based on regime change and not based on whether Iraq had WMDs. He asked: “How do you justify that almost a million innocent civilians have died as the price of getting rid of a dictator? Who is accountable for this at the end of the day, after it was found that there were no weapons of mass destruction?”
A Grand Jury May Answer the Question: Who Is Accountable for a War Started on The False Claims That Iraq Had WMD? | AfterDowningStreet.org
La entrevista a Elbaradei
Why you think the United States got it so wrong on Iraq and WMD?
We operated from here on the basis of good faith. We were assigned to verify whether Iraq had nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. It was not an easy task, dealing with a horrible dictator like Saddam Hussein, but we had to do our job in a fair and objective way. However, unfortunately in hindsight, we discovered that the decision to go war was not based on our work but was based on so-called regime change. The decision was taken in 2002, a year before we started our inspections.
How does regime change fit with international law? How do you justify that almost a million innocent civilians have died as the price of getting rid of a dictator? Who is accountable for this at the end of the day, after it was found that there were no weapons of mass destruction?
We operated from here on the basis of good faith. We were assigned to verify whether Iraq had nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. It was not an easy task, dealing with a horrible dictator like Saddam Hussein, but we had to do our job in a fair and objective way. However, unfortunately in hindsight, we discovered that the decision to go war was not based on our work but was based on so-called regime change. The decision was taken in 2002, a year before we started our inspections.
Joby Warrick interviews Mohamed ElBaradei on Iran's nuclear ambitions - washingtonpost.com
Mon, 2009-12-28 23:48
(...) In an interview this month in The Washington Post, the former UN chief nuclear weapons inspector and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2005), Mohamed ElBaradei, was asked why the United States got it so wrong on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. ElBaradei responded that he has discovered that the United States decision to go to war was based on regime change and not based on whether Iraq had WMDs. He asked: “How do you justify that almost a million innocent civilians have died as the price of getting rid of a dictator? Who is accountable for this at the end of the day, after it was found that there were no weapons of mass destruction?”
A Grand Jury May Answer the Question: Who Is Accountable for a War Started on The False Claims That Iraq Had WMD? | AfterDowningStreet.org
La entrevista a Elbaradei
Why you think the United States got it so wrong on Iraq and WMD?
We operated from here on the basis of good faith. We were assigned to verify whether Iraq had nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. It was not an easy task, dealing with a horrible dictator like Saddam Hussein, but we had to do our job in a fair and objective way. However, unfortunately in hindsight, we discovered that the decision to go war was not based on our work but was based on so-called regime change. The decision was taken in 2002, a year before we started our inspections.
How does regime change fit with international law? How do you justify that almost a million innocent civilians have died as the price of getting rid of a dictator? Who is accountable for this at the end of the day, after it was found that there were no weapons of mass destruction?
We operated from here on the basis of good faith. We were assigned to verify whether Iraq had nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. It was not an easy task, dealing with a horrible dictator like Saddam Hussein, but we had to do our job in a fair and objective way. However, unfortunately in hindsight, we discovered that the decision to go war was not based on our work but was based on so-called regime change. The decision was taken in 2002, a year before we started our inspections.
Joby Warrick interviews Mohamed ElBaradei on Iran's nuclear ambitions - washingtonpost.com
