BUT, YOUR HONOR, I'M AN ORPHAN

Iraq Issues U.N. Demands and Destroys More Missiles By NEIL MacFARQUHAR with PATRICK E. TYLER

Glossing over the negative aspects of the latest report by the weapons inspectors, a government statement issued from a meeting presided over by Saddam Hussein and editorials in the government-controlled press all reached the same conclusion: that Iraq had been declared sufficiently free of weapons of mass destruction to warrant the cancellation of sanctions imposed after the 1991 Persian Gulf war. . . .

The Iraqi demands to the United Nations included a call to strip Israel of its weapons of mass destruction and force it to abide by Security Council resolutions requiring its withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territory. The government statement also said the United States and Britain should officially be branded "liars."

The statement by the Iraqi cabinet said the United States was still trying to use the cover of the Security Council reports to attack Iraq despite the cooperation detailed by the weapons inspectors.

You know, on second thought there's just nothing to mock in this.

Posted by David Cohen at March 8, 2003 11:51 PM