Not your standard yellowcake
Things like this are unbelievable to me.
Iraq inquiry: Former UN inspector Blix says war illegal from BBC
Blix: U.S. was ‘high on military’ over Iraq from CNN
Blix: Intelligence in Iraq was poor from Al Jazeera
Back in 2003, Hans Blix, the former UN weapons inspector for Iraq, reported that while his team had discovered “fragments” of the former Iraqi nuclear weapons program, he could not find the smoking gun that the US and UK had been hoping for.
He even says, in the BBC article, that had he more time do conduct more inspections, he could have been able to DISPROVE the intelligence gathered by the CIA and UK intelligence services that suggested that Saddam Hussein had purchased yellowcake uranium from Niger.
By the by, the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, was able to discredit the intel reports used by the US as forgeries in about a day.
Not only this, but they found evidence that Iraq had dismantled its nuclear missile program in response to the 1991 Gulf War.
Back in 1991!
Seems like some people were just a little too anxious to get into Iraq. COUGH GEORGE W. BUSH COUGH.
But this also could have dire consequences of the international community today. Think about it. Presiden Woodrow Wilson drew up plans for an international governance organization (League of Nations) that would serve in the best interests of the international community as a whole, then FDR helped created the United Nations (UN) that we know today. These were supposed to serve as an international body of law, where members states adhere to the rulings of the UN. It makes sense, right?
Then why is this such a problem for member states to understand? The UN had found that Iraq DID NOT have weapons of mass destruction. Yet, the US and UK invaded anyway. And find they were completely wrong. From the beginning. Strike one.
Today, UNSC resolved that North Korea should not be allowed to build up its nuclear weapons program. The DPRK decides that they do not accept this and do it anyway. So when they sink a South Korean ship and the UN definitively finds that the torpedo responsible was North Korean, they, again, do no accept this finding and even call it detestable. And now they threaten nuclear retaliation for the US-South Korean war games. Strike two.
And with the development of Iranian nuclear programs, the UN made 4 separate resolutions prohibiting Iran from doing so. But hey, who the hell cares? They do so anyway. Strike three.
In order to deter this, the US and EU decide they want to impose FURTHER SANCTIONS (mind you, not from the UN), even against the requests of Russia, a pretty big, powerful ally, claiming its not right because it was not decided by the UNSC. Strike three.
Wait. There’s more!
There’s more? I thought after 3 strikes you were out?
I DENY THE 3 STRIKE RULE BECAUSE NO ONE WILL STOP ME OTHERWISE! (read: TOUGH SHIT!)
In an attempt to relay humanitarian aid to the Palestinian refugees in trapped in Gaza, a Turkish flotilla of humanitarian aid ships were attacked by Israeli forces, killing 10. When the UN mounts an investigation and finds Israel at fault, what happens folks? You guessed it. They said something along the lines of, “I don’t accept your findings.”
Guys, there are so many more ‘strikes’ out there. These are just a few I feel like can be related to whats going on today.
What is the point of the UN as a peacekeeping organization if efforts put forth are “not accepted?” If we’re setting and example that, yeah, we respect what the UN does and everyone else should follow that, but not us. We’re better than. What is this saying to other nations?
What it says is that if you don’t like what the UN says, good for you, go about your day wreaking terror and possibly irrevocably ruining relations with allies.
Great. Job. World.
And yellowcake.
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