



08 March 2003

UN Reports Destroy Bush’s Legitimacy  Howard Must Disengage Australia - Brown

The Blix report on weapons inspection in Iraq destroys President Bush’s key  assertion, repeated yesterday, that Iraq retains underground stockpiles of chemical or  biological weapons or mobile weapons laboratories, Greens Senator Bob Brown said  today.

“Blix, the expert on the ground, says there is no evidence to back Bush’s assertion.

“Worse, President Bush’s contention that Iraq sought to buy uranium from Niger is  based on fake documents, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

“Prime Minister Howard should back out of this patently unjustified and concocted  US rationale for invading Iraq.

“It is not the presence of 200,000 troops massed on Iraq’s border, but the absence of  justification and legitimacy for this war which Mr Howard must acknowledge. He  must disengage. Australia’s honour as well as its future security is at stake here.

“It is time to break from President Bush’s patently illegitimate intention to bomb  Baghdad”, Senator Brown said.

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Author: Ben Oquist



