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Alberto / Iperboreo
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WASHINGTON, 29 mag - Il disarmo in Iraq? Non fu il vero motivo della guerra
al regime di Saddam Hussein. Il ministro della difesa americano Rumsfeld ha
infatti quasi ammesso ieri che, per attaccare l'Iraq con il consenso della
popolazione americana, gli Usa avrebbero puntato tutto sulla storia delle
potenziali armi di distruzione nascoste negli arsenali del dittatore.
Fedele alla sua fama di falco dei falchi, anche Paul Wolfowitz, il vice di
Rumsfeld, parlando cosě alla patinata rivista "Vanity Fair", si č deciso a
parlare chiaro. La guerra, ha lasciato capire, č stata fatta per altre e ben
piů complesse ragioni che non il "disarmo" dell'Iraq. Per "ragioni
burocratiche" (ovvero, per avere una giustificazione in termini di
risoluzioni Onu) bisognava infatti citare le armi, ha detto Wolfowitz, ma il
uno degli obiettivi Usa era quello di diminuire la propria presenza in
Arabia Saudita e aprire cosě spiragli maggiori per una pacificazione in
Medio Oriente. E politicamente evocare il pericolo rappresentato dalle "armi
di distruzione di massa" era un argomento forte, capace di creare consenso.
Wolfowitz quindi di fatto ammette: sulle armi di distruzione di massa
abbiano esagerato se non proprio mentito. Ma č un'ammissione che
politicamente non dovrebbe costargli nulla. Tutti i sondaggi di opinione,
dice la Bbc, mostrano che agli americani non interessa granché se poi quelle
armi saranno trovate oppure no.
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Sai, la gente è matta, forse è troppo insoddisfatta; segue il mondo
ciecamente. "Iperboreo" <hyper...@KAOSlibero.it> che è diverso,
almeno lui nell'universo, dice: 
# WASHINGTON, 29 mag - Il disarmo in Iraq? Non fu il vero motivo della guerra
Capito, consiglio anche a voi questo articolo
US finds evidence of WMD at last - buried in a field near Maryland 
Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday May 28, 2003
The Guardian 
The good news for the Pentagon yesterday was that its investigators
had finally unearthed evidence of weapons of mass destruction,
including 100 vials of anthrax and other dangerous bacteria. 
The bad news was that the stash was found, not in Iraq, but fewer than
50 miles from Washington, near Fort Detrick in the Maryland
countryside. 
The anthrax was a non-virulent strain, and the discoveries are
apparently remnants of an abandoned germ warfare programme. They
merited only a local news item in the Washington Post. 
But suspicious finds in Iraq have made front-page news (before later
being cleared), given the failure of US military inspection teams to
find evidence of the weapons that were the justification for the March
invasion. 
Even more embarrassing for the Pentagon, there was no documentation
about the various biological agents disposed of at the US bio-defence
centre at Fort Detrick. Iraq's failure to come up with paperwork
proving the destruction of its biological arsenal was portrayed by the
US as evidence of deception in the run-up to the war. 
In an effort to explain why no chemical or biological weapons had been
found in Iraq, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said
yesterday the regime may have destroyed them before the war. 
Speaking to the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations thinktank,
he said the speed of U.S. advance may have caught Iraq by surprise,
but added: "It is also possible that they decided that they would
destroy them prior to a conflict." 
The US germ warfare programme at Fort Detrick was officially wound up
in 1969, but the base has maintained a stock of nasty bugs to help
maintain America's defences against biological attack. 
The leading theory about the unsolved anthrax letter attacks in 2001
is that they were carried out by a disgruntled former Fort Detrick
employee; equipment found dumped in a pond eight miles from the base
has been linked to the crimes. 
The Fort Detrick clean-up has unearthed over 2,000 tonnes of hazardous
waste. 
The sanitation crews were shocked to find vials containing live
bacteria. As well as the vaccine form of anthrax, the discarded
biological agents included Brucella melitensis, which causes the
virulent flu-like disease brucellosis, and klebsiella, a cause of
pneumonia. 
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003