Post #93,744
4/2/03 11:11:10 AM
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Re: No WMDs found yet, details of search
[link|http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7027|Where, O Where Have the WMDs Gone?] Yes, this is the same group that, just two weeks ago, insisted was that UN weapons inspectors needed "more time" to scour the Iraqi countryside. Four months, they said, was simply not long enough for 108 experts to discover Hussein\ufffds stockpile.
Now they complain that allied forces haven\ufffdt found it in 14 days. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #93,746
4/2/03 11:22:34 AM
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Some good points in that article
Massively outgunned, Hussein can\ufffdt hope to defeat allied forces outright. His best hope is for a long, drawn-out war that produces a high coalition and civilian death toll. Over time, he suspects, American resolve will sap (note his showing of the film Black Hawk Down to Iraqi troops), and international pressure will mount for some sort of a peaceful resolution. The key to this strategy is not getting on the wrong side of Russia, France, and China, and that requires refraining from the use of WMDs, which are of limited use, anyway, against allied troops who have both the gear and training to protect themselves. and But what if no smoking gun can ever be found? What if the weapons remain in Syria? What if Hussein\ufffds forces have effectively hidden them, and after the war is over there are no Iraqi officials still alive who can find them? What if, as Hussein and his apologists claim, he doesn\ufffdt have the weapons at all\ufffdthey were all destroyed in the first Gulf War or by UN weapons inspectors afterwards?
For any of these unlikely scenarios to be true, Hussein would have to be a fool or a suicidal maniac. After all, he could have avoided war by simply making made a good-faith effort to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors. If he had nothing to hide, then what was he so busy hiding? Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #93,748
4/2/03 11:26:45 AM
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The last paragraph...
Is what *MY* whole gripe is about the Protesters
b4k4^2
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Post #93,749
4/2/03 11:33:37 AM
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Actually untrue...
what were the requirements of Bush incorporated?
Hint: they shifted as time went on - from allowing inspectors, to freeing political prisoners (yes, Bush actually required that) to Saddam Hussein leaving the country.
IMO - the only acceptable thing to Bush (et. al.) was Regime Change.
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Post #93,753
4/2/03 11:53:07 AM
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I was pointing out that the Protesters ABOUT...
Weapons of Mass Destruction... err Iraq's lack of them... err the Inspector's not finding them... err Saddamn "busy hiding" them... Even *IF* we sold them to him in the 80s... WTF do think he is going to do with them. Especially... ... ... wait... ... wait for it... here it comes... WHEN HE KNOWS WHERE AND WHEN THE INSPECTORS WERE GOING!
Why do you think the damned Inspectors couldn't find anything... then after we started parking troops near his border... did they "FIND" some minutia of the ones he has. Would we have had to assemble 100% of the US Armed Forces on his border to get him to comply... nope... He continued to deny the inspectors access to certain areas. A bonus to lopping off the head... we get to find them then... and actually "unbind" certain repressed peoples of Iraq... (Shiite, Kurds and so-on) or are you claiming none of that happened either. Now, Iraq had 12 years to comply with the "de-arming"... and we had inspectors in there for a LONG time before the 4 month stint... they pulled out themselves, as they were getting more and more resistence from Iraqi "Escorts and Officials"... Dunno 'bout but I am thinking you can't won't see any mention of those facts when some people go off here... b4k4^2
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Post #93,755
4/2/03 12:01:29 PM
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My only argument was with this line....
After all, he could have avoided war by simply making made a good-faith effort to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors.
Bush changed the requirements more than once...the only thing he was consistant on was regime change.
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Post #93,757
4/2/03 12:09:53 PM
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I've got to disagree
If Saddam had met the requirements and then the target moved, I'd agree with you. I think it's more accurate to say the target was moved because he didn't meet the previous ones.
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Post #93,761
4/2/03 12:21:54 PM
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Are you saying he didn't release his prisoners?
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Post #93,766
4/2/03 12:58:13 PM
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Don't know about the prisoners
The main issue has (supposedly) always been the weapons. Every time he was given an ultimatum and didn't meet it, the stakes were raised.
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