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Saddam's Alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Ulli Diemer
Letter to the Editor:
Why doesn't Saddam use his weapons now if he really has them?
The United States justifies its unilateral decision to go to war with the claim that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction which could it use to attack the US.
The US claims that the threat from these weapons is so great, and so imminent, that the inspections process backed by most United Nations members has to be abruptly terminated so the US can launch an immediate attack on Iraq.
Under these circumstances, Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi leadership, can have no possible illusions about the fact that an American attack is about to begin and that they have little or no chance of surviving it.
If Saddam Hussein really possesses these alleged weapons of mass destruction, would it not be logical, from his point of view, to launch them against the United States right away, today, while he is still alive and still able to use them? Knowing he is about to be annihilated, why would he possibly hold back from using them now?
There is only one logical explanation: that he does not in fact
possess the weapons capability that the US claims he does. And if
this is so, then many thousands of Iraqi will die because of an
utterly unnecessary war, a war launched on a pretext that is clearly
false. Such a war would be a crime against humanity.
Ulli Diemer
March 18, 2003
See also: The
Iraq crisis in context and Speak
Out Against War.
