Thursday, February 20, 2003

According to intelligence reports (this time NOT involving Alastair Campbell's group of trained flatworms), Saddam's missing WOMD might, literally, be all at sea. A number of Iraqi vessels put to sea prior to the arrival of Dr Hans Blix and the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq and have apparently been sailing around aimlessly.
Presumably, the vessels in question are sailing aimlessly through international waters which begs several questions: Will Bush and Blair attempt to persuade the UN to commit an act of piracy in order to sanction the enforced boarding and searching of these ships? If these vessels are boarded and searched and WOMD destruction discovered and seized, what justification will Bush and Blair have to bomb Iraq if it no longer poses a threat to international peace?