CNN.com - Aziz: Destroying missiles would be 'unacceptable' - Feb. 16, 2003


Iraq confirms what we already knew - that they have been working on missiles with a range in excess of the 150km they are allowed. "They should not be destroyed because they are practically within the range we are allowed to have," says Aziz. Of course, it doesn't matter, as no one is going to hold them to it anyway.


Oh, and about that French idea to send blue-helmeted human-shields...I mean, UN Peacekeepers in? "'While on a trip to Rome to meet with Pope John Paul II, Aziz also dismissed a reported plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to Iraq.


'Iraq is a sovereign state. It has provided all of the security needed to re-inspect us, and we don't need United Nations troops to interfere or to be in our country,' he said."