Libya drops WMD program; Howard Dean exposed.
In the wake of the liberation of Iraq, Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi has taken significant steps to dismantle his country’s WMD program. (*) American and British officials have already inspected sites in Libya. Libya was found to have mustard gas and a biological program. In addition, it admitted to an advanced nuclear weapons development project. (†)
Negotiations began last March, after the Lockerbie talks. (‡)
The Nuclear Threat Initiative has more on Libya’s WMD program. (§)
Howard Dean says that toppling Saddam did not make the US safer. (**) It could be argued that Libya would have wanted to rejoin the international community even before Operation Iraqi Freedom. It cannot be ignored, however, that Libya has gone ahead and done the responsible thing. If the liberation of Iraq had hurt our ability to fight terrorism and WMD, there is no sign of it in Libya’s move today. If anything, it appears Libya’s move was spurred by what happened to Saddam.
Thanks to Libya’s move, the world is safer.