Here is the Carter comment:
We want Saddam Hussein to disarm but we want to achieve this through peaceful means.
"He obviously has the capability and desire to build prohibited weapons and probably has some hidden in his country.
However, here is the very next comment:
"A sustained and enlarged UN inspection team is required."
Just beating the left to the punch, since they will claim a context violation. BUT.. reading the link it's clear we need more dissection.
Carter goes on to say:
"If you asked the same people, 'Do you think Iraq must comply with the UN requirement to eliminate weapons of mass destruction?' they would say yes.
"So the question is, how do we correlate these two yes answers in a positive and effective fashion?"
This is true liberalism at it's finest. "We want everyone to get along, we just don't want any consequences". Uh, where is the plan? No need for one, Carter goes on to speculate:
Carter has argued that any "belligerent move by Saddam would be suicidal" in the current climate of intense monitoring and therefore "inconceivable".
Jimmy, Saddam surprised us in 1992 and 1995.
Ironically, the broader inspections Carter was lobbying for (only possible due to our sustained and massive military buildup in the region) might have benefitted Saddam moreso. Inspectors would have found nothing, increasing the pressure for the UNSC, which Saddam was in process of bribing, to end sanctions and perhaps even the no-fly zones. Then its right back to bidness as usual for the Butcher with cash on hand to perhaps fulfill some of the sinister goals Carter talked about above.
However, the most shocking quote from the Mirror article might be this:
"But people round here do remember him saying, 'Our State Department never gets upset about anything unless white skin or oil is involved'. His words have rung true again."
Sigh.
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