Fox's Krauthammer "Sanctions didn't stop" Iraq-espite CIA saying they did

[papau]

But Fox wants war with Iran - and puts a few more lies on the air.

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Krauthammer claimed that U.N. sanctions "didn't stop him in anything"; CIA disagrees

Arguing that the United States cannot prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons "unless you're prepared to go to war," syndicated Washington Post columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer claimed that multilateral sanctions on Iraq "didn't stop him in anything." In fact, Iraq never restarted its nuclear program after the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions following the 1991 Gulf War, according to the CIA's Iraqi Survey Group (ISG), which led the search for banned weapons in Iraq and documented Saddam's attempts to acquire them.

The ISG's final report, known as the Duelfer report, included among its "Key Findings" in Chapter 2 the observation that "Saddam needed to end UN-imposed sanctions to fulfill his goals" of reconstituting his dormant weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs:

UN sanctions curbed Saddam's ability to import weapons, technology, and expertise into Iraq. Sanctions also limited his ability to finance his military, intelligence, and security forces to deal with his perceived and real external threats.

Chapter 1 of the Duelfer report similarly noted that "Saddam's primary goal from 1991 to 2003 was to have UN sanctions lifted" and that "the starting of any WMD program, conspicuous or otherwise, risked undoing the progress achieved in eroding sanctions."
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From the February 27 edition of FOX Broadcasting Company's FOX News Sunday:

KRAUTHAMMER: I don't see any indication of any will on the part of the Europeans to do anything serious. We would like to be serious on this, but I don't think that we have the actual option. The Iranians know that, and there's nothing that's going to stop them.

There might be an intermediate step if we had European help, as McCain indicated, that we end up in the Security Council and pass the sanctions and make Iran a pariah.

But, look, Saddam had sanctions on him as well. It didn't stop him in anything. For a country determined to acquire nukes as Iran is, unless you're prepared to go to war, I don't think there's any indication that we're going to stop them.

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[papau]

2. retaining the ability" means having college course in physics being taught

It does not mean that the sanctions had not stopped him 100% from getting any such Weapons.

The CIS went back and revised the pre-war memo to reflect the post war fact that they were wrong.

[aden_nak]

3. What? Krauthammer lying like a rug? I don't believe it.