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International Wrap, Eye on World
Aired May 12, 2003 - 06:37 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: On to the subject of weapons of mass destruction now. The U.S. has been looking for them in Iraq with little success; now a change.
Our senior international editor, David Clinch, joins us once again.
Tell us about the change?
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, good morning, Carol.
Well, we talked earlier about the regime change within a regime change of retired General Garner being replaced by L. Paul Bremer as the civil administrator for Iraq, and also the plan changes on the WMD side, the weapons of mass destruction. The Pentagon saying that the military has done its part, but basically they haven't been able to find weapons of mass destruction.
The Pentagon is now forming a new group, which will have former inspectors -- all Americans mind you -- but former inspectors, better translation, better intelligence, to search for weapons of mass destruction.
Both of these issues, Bremer coming in, for whatever reason he's coming in -- and we talked earlier about how there are various versions of whether it was the plan all along or not -- and these changes on the weapons of mass destruction side, bring up the really important question of not just the immediate issues that need to be dealt with by the Americans, but the long-term: How will history judge if they find weapons of destruction? And did they change the regime? Not the...
COSTELLO: And I think it's safe to say right now everybody is a little surprised that they haven't found really anything yet.
CLINCH: Well, it certainly is a surprise, considering how much talk there was in advance, some of it very specific about where they though the weapons were.
COSTELLO: And how much intelligence information they seemed to have had.
CLINCH: Right. And I'm not going to sit here and tell you they're not going to find them and that there aren't many, many good reasons why they may not have found them, obviously, but there definitely is a question that needs to be answered, and they are taking it very seriously, reforming this group with better intelligence and better people.
And again, the question here is not just the -- you know, the instant history that we do here in 24-hour news, but long-term how will the United States be judged on what it said before the war, why it went to war, and whether the weapons have, in fact, been found?
COSTELLO: OK. Let's talk about something fun before you have to go. I'm going to -- well, you know about this stance with Prince William.
CLINCH: Prince William, yes. Actually, you've been reporting that to mark his 21st birthday in June, June the 17th, the Royal Mail in Britain will be releasing a set of four stamps. And apparently, Prince William was quite reluctant for these stamps to be released. He apparently sought advice from his grandmother, the queen, of whether it was appropriate. He reluctantly agreed, and these four photographs, or stamps, will be released on June 17.
Now, the Royal Mail expects to make an awful lot of money out of these, because obviously there's going to be a lot of international interest. I've even had some people ask whether you can get them in poster size.
COSTELLO: Oh, you're kidding!
CLINCH: And the Royal Mail is definitely playing along here with that theme. Their Web page here has it as, "Capture the essence of Prince William," is their ad for the stamps.
COSTELLO: In four stamps you can do that.
CLINCH: Apparently so. So, a very -- apparently going to be a very popular stamp issue this year, coming out on June the 17th.
COSTELLO: So, if Americans want some.
CLINCH: You can order them. Go to their Web site and you can order them. I'm sure it costs a lot of money to ship them, but you can order them.
COSTELLO: I'm sure it will be worth it to many people.
CLINCH: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Thank you very much, David.
CLINCH: All right.
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Aired May 12, 2003 - 06:37 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: On to the subject of weapons of mass destruction now. The U.S. has been looking for them in Iraq with little success; now a change.
Our senior international editor, David Clinch, joins us once again.
Tell us about the change?
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, good morning, Carol.
Well, we talked earlier about the regime change within a regime change of retired General Garner being replaced by L. Paul Bremer as the civil administrator for Iraq, and also the plan changes on the WMD side, the weapons of mass destruction. The Pentagon saying that the military has done its part, but basically they haven't been able to find weapons of mass destruction.
The Pentagon is now forming a new group, which will have former inspectors -- all Americans mind you -- but former inspectors, better translation, better intelligence, to search for weapons of mass destruction.
Both of these issues, Bremer coming in, for whatever reason he's coming in -- and we talked earlier about how there are various versions of whether it was the plan all along or not -- and these changes on the weapons of mass destruction side, bring up the really important question of not just the immediate issues that need to be dealt with by the Americans, but the long-term: How will history judge if they find weapons of destruction? And did they change the regime? Not the...
COSTELLO: And I think it's safe to say right now everybody is a little surprised that they haven't found really anything yet.
CLINCH: Well, it certainly is a surprise, considering how much talk there was in advance, some of it very specific about where they though the weapons were.
COSTELLO: And how much intelligence information they seemed to have had.
CLINCH: Right. And I'm not going to sit here and tell you they're not going to find them and that there aren't many, many good reasons why they may not have found them, obviously, but there definitely is a question that needs to be answered, and they are taking it very seriously, reforming this group with better intelligence and better people.
And again, the question here is not just the -- you know, the instant history that we do here in 24-hour news, but long-term how will the United States be judged on what it said before the war, why it went to war, and whether the weapons have, in fact, been found?
COSTELLO: OK. Let's talk about something fun before you have to go. I'm going to -- well, you know about this stance with Prince William.
CLINCH: Prince William, yes. Actually, you've been reporting that to mark his 21st birthday in June, June the 17th, the Royal Mail in Britain will be releasing a set of four stamps. And apparently, Prince William was quite reluctant for these stamps to be released. He apparently sought advice from his grandmother, the queen, of whether it was appropriate. He reluctantly agreed, and these four photographs, or stamps, will be released on June 17.
Now, the Royal Mail expects to make an awful lot of money out of these, because obviously there's going to be a lot of international interest. I've even had some people ask whether you can get them in poster size.
COSTELLO: Oh, you're kidding!
CLINCH: And the Royal Mail is definitely playing along here with that theme. Their Web page here has it as, "Capture the essence of Prince William," is their ad for the stamps.
COSTELLO: In four stamps you can do that.
CLINCH: Apparently so. So, a very -- apparently going to be a very popular stamp issue this year, coming out on June the 17th.
COSTELLO: So, if Americans want some.
CLINCH: You can order them. Go to their Web site and you can order them. I'm sure it costs a lot of money to ship them, but you can order them.
COSTELLO: I'm sure it will be worth it to many people.
CLINCH: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Thank you very much, David.
CLINCH: All right.
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