Experts Confirm New Iraq Missile Exceeds U.N. Limit
Mr. Blix has already told the Council that the missiles, with a range of about 180 kilometers, or 114 miles, appeared to be a “prima facie” case of a violation by Iraq of the range limit of 150 kilometers, or about 90 miles, established by the Council. The missiles have already been given to the Iraqi armed forces, he said. The panel did not reach a conclusion about a second missile, Al Fatah, but said it required further study.
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This retires the third canard of the pro-appeasement side of the Iraq argument, the claim that “the inspectors haven’t found anything.” The unilaterism argument was retired by the letters from the Wall St. Journal 8 and the Vilnius 10, and the pre-emption charge by the seventeen UN Security Council resolutions ordering Iraq to disarm. This leaves us with “I don’t trust the Bushies” and “eewww, it might cost some money” as the sole remaining arguments against the liberation of Iraq.