Iraq did pursue banned weapons programs

Here is a great editorial from the San Diego Tribune. Read on!

The headlines on David Kay’s report to Congress focused on the failure, so far, to find chemical and biological weapons or evidence that Iraq had resumed the active pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Too little attention was focused on what Kay did find.

Three months of searching by the chief U.S. arms inspector in Iraq has produced unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein was, in fact, hiding evidence of prohibited weapons programs from United Nations weapons inspectors, that Iraq was preserving the option of resuming chemical and biological weapons production, and that a potential nuclear weapons program was being held in abeyance pending an easing of international pressure.

In addition, Kay’s inspectors turned up proof that Iraq was actively seeking to extend the range of its ballistic missiles in violation of U.N. limitations imposed in 1991 at the end of the Persian Gulf War. Moreover, Iraqi documents show that Saddam Hussein’s government was attempting to purchase prohibited long-range missiles from North Korea, and hiding that from U.N. weapons inspectors.