Posted on 09/19/2002 10:20:00 AM PDT by Dog Gone
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Iraq is free of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, the country's foreign minister told the United Nations in a speech Thursday that included excerpts of a letter from Saddam Hussein.
``Our country is ready to receive any scientific experts, accompanied by politicians you choose to represent any one of your countries, to tell us which places and scientific installations they would wish to see,'' Naji Sabri said, quoting the Iraqi president.
``I herby declare before you that Iraq is clear of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons,'' Sabir said, further quoting Saddam.
The speech heavily criticized the United States and President Bush for trying to link Iraq in some way to the tragedy of Sept. 11.
The Iraqi president charged that ``the American propaganda machine, along with official statements of lies, distortion and falsehood'' was being used for ``inciting the American public against Iraq, and pushing them to accept the U.S. administration's schemes of aggression as a fait accompli.''
Translation: all our anthrax is pre-positioned in New York, Washington, London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Rome, etc. You can search Iraq high and low, and you'll never find a thing! Neeener-neeener-neeener!
You can trust us.
At the time I posted this, AP hadn't had the time to put this into context or get a White House reaction.
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