July 10, 2008 (LPAC)--Diplomats at the United Nations are fuming over a decision to close down the UN Weapons Inspections in Iraq agency, after 17 years, without even allowing the agency UNMOVIC to file its own report confirming that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, nor was it working on developing any such WMD when the U.S./British-led coalition invaded in 2003. There was no resolution finalizing the closing of UNMOVIC, which withdrew its inspectors when the U.S. invasion began. Rather, there was only a letter from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, and a UNSC "report" describing the implementation of the vaguely worded UN Security Council resolution of 2007.

Lyndon LaRouche denounced this decision today as a cover-up for Tony Blair and George W. Bush. LaRouche said: "Blair is the author of the war. There never were any WMD and they are trying to bury the finding that there were none. The Administration is trying to cover up what has already been exposed. It is a retroactive cover-up of the fact that the genesis of the war was a fraud.

"All the people died for nothing. All the money spent could have gone into funding hospitals. This was all done for a war that never should have been fought. Despite the cover-up of the killing of Dr. David Kelly, Blair started the war with a lie. Now he is supposed to be a Christian, but he is more like one of the lions, as in lying. All the lives lost and the destruction of the American people lie squarely on the shoulders of the Bush administration and above all on the shoulders of Tony Blair, whose recent conversion to Christianity smacks of something not wholesome."

The invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq took place while the UNMOVIC international inspectors were doing their job--and finding, in site, after site, after site, that there were no WMD programs under development in Iraq in 2003.

According to one high-level source at the UN, the Security Council took action in late June 2008, to completely close down UNMOVIC, transfer all its funds over to other UN-managed funds maintained for Iraq, and to SEAL all weapons inspection records for 60 years for "supersensitive" material, and for 30 years for "sensitive" material. This provides great cover for Tony Blair, George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney, all of whom were caught falsifying and exaggerating reports about Iraq's possession of WMD in order to start the war.

The reason that the closing was finalized without a UNSC resolution, said another UN official source, is that the whole issue of Iraq is so painful for the UN that a number of the Permanent 5 members wanted all issues connected to Iraq to "just go away." The Perm-5 had been unable to agree on certain critical issues. For example, Russia wanted the resolution of 2007 to explicitly include the fact that there were no WMDs found in Iraq at the time of -- and after -- the invasion, but the US and UK would not allow this.

On why there was no final UNMOVIC report, the official said that again, the British and the U.S. had blocked it. Russia was insisting that UNMOVIC's background material had to be available to UN members, and the UK and US demanding that the "Duelfer Report," conducted by the CIA's "Iraq Survey Group" be accepted as the report of record on the question of Iraqi WMDs.

The UN official also admitted that it is not clear if there is any precedent for the UNMOVIC records being sealed for 30 to 60 years.