«La vera coalizione di corrotti era alle Nazioni Unite», titola un articolo del Wall Street Journal, nel riportare i risultati del rapporto sulle armi di distruzione di massa reso pubblico ieri dagli ispettori Usa:
1. He (Saddam Hussein, n.d.r.) engaged in strategic deception intended to suggest that he retained WMD.Conclude duramente l'editoriale:
2. He fully intended to resume real WMD production after the expected lifting of U.N. sanctions, and he maintained weapons programs that put him in "material breach" of U.N. resolutions including 1441.
3. And he instituted an epic bribery scheme aimed primarily at three of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, with the intent of having them help lift those sanctions.
«Even if one accepts the desirability of some kind of "global test" before America acts militarily, U.N. Security Council approval can't be it. There was never any chance that this "coalition of the bribed" was going to explicitly endorse regime change, or the presumed alternative of another 12 years of economic sanctions».Quella di corrompere funzionari governativi e compagnie di Russia, Francia e Cina, fu una vera e propria strategia di Saddam mirata a dividere il Consiglio di Sicurezza, scrive più esplicitamente il Washington Times, che riporta testualmente parti del rapporto:
«At a minimum, Saddam wanted to divide the five permanent members [of the Security Council] and foment international public support of Iraq at the UN and throughout the world by a savvy public relations campaign and an extensive diplomatic effort».
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