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You make russia out to be the russians to be evil people, are you reading this out of a propaganda book?
.....Really? You got proof of this...
Actually It can be explained in a lot of ways, your just unwilling to accept them.
Yes unless there is actual proof not just someones opinion then there is no justification to accuse them of anything.
Oh the small stockpile of left over bioagents from the gulf war?
Yes suspicios activicty reported by who?
Says who?
He went in why then?
Because some man told him there was checmical weapon facilities...cough baby millk factory cough..
"David Kay, the man who led the CIA's postwar effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, has called on the Bush administration to "come clean with the American people" and admit it was wrong about the existence of the weapons. "
By whose professional opinion , yours?
That may be so, but hideing ALL of these weapons takes man power and reasources, yet we have heard of no forces yet being captured or admiting they were part of it.
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
You make Americans out to be dumb, lazy, ignorant and incompetent...
Everything I said is simple truth. There's a reason Iraq had T-72's, and MiG-29's, and North Korea has the same. How about Syria? All of these nations have been getting Russian weapons. Russia dumps weapons on any third world nation willing to pay.
The quote I'm refering to has circulated for sometime. I don't care to go look for it. You won't deny who armed Saddam, and continued to arm Saddam throughout the 90's, though, will you?
America hasn't accused them of anything.
I don't know what explanations there are for huge shipments flooding out of Iraq into Syria just prior to the invasion. This wasn't ordinary.
I'm not talking about leftovers. He had active labs capable of producing this stuff at any time.
Satellite pictures don't lie. There's no justification for shipments going from Iraq into Syria before the invasion.
He went in because he actually thought it was a good idea, where everyone benefited.
Isn't that same guy who was saying how Iraq had WMD's a few years ago, and that we weren't being hard enough with Iraq? He's not reliable at all.
Anyone with a brain. If you think I'm wrong, why don't you explain to me what those shipments carried, and what their purpose was.
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Really, its soooo obvios that any shipment between two countries obviosly contains WMD.
Could be anything from Wheat to AK's.
Who would we capture? A bunch of guys who probably ran off to Syria with the weapons?
I think we would discover several thousand men missing in iraq....
So?
Does that mean thier willing to arm a country with WMD?
No.
Arm him with what?
Conventional weapons? [/quoe]
WMD's and conventional weapons.
They could be anything from a supply of Ak'S to a supply of wheat.
Why would Iraq be shipping AK-47's to Syria? Why would they just suddenly start sending wheat just before an invasion? Interesting time and place to start trading.
Not acording to the inspectors there, who also presented the information they had in worse case scenarios not actually what was there.
That's bull. The factories have been found. I'd rather here the typical bonehead argument they were factories made for producing pesticides then this...
How can everyone benifit from war?
The Americans get a base in the Middle East, oil contracts, and get rid of a serious potential threat while the Iraqis get rid of a tyranical dictator who massacred his own people.
Nethiers the CIA considering they said on air , "there are no WMD in iraq"
It's funny that people don't believe the CIA when they say something they disagree with, like Iran has a nuclear program, yet are quick to believe government whitewash like that...
The CIA could not politically keep saying there were WMD's with the media hounding on the lack of evidence. The public believed there were mistakes, so the government had to make it look like they were doing something to fix the problems.
I think we would discover several thousand men missing in iraq....
It doesn't take several thousand men, and many parts of Saddam's regime did go run into Syria and Iran.
Hey, Columbia has massive oil reserves, maybe they moved the WMD's there. Maybe we should support their opposition in VN, call Chavez a terrorist and move the american military there... Oh yeah that's right, we already are. Are we still on the WMD garbage? LOL. Wake up folks, even your 'war hero president' Bush has admitted there were no WMD's. He has already moved on to the next excuse which was simply ousting an evil dictator, perhaps you should move on as well. Nobody is buying that crap anymore, not even the guys like Tenet that started it. In other words...
Originally posted by twitchy
Like what? Indulge me...
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
The whole conspiracy with Iraq makes little to no sense for reasons I've already explained. If Bush simply was interested in corporate interests, he could have waited until after the election to go after Iraq. It would have been far smarter and safer.
There was clearly more reasons for going after Iraq.
The fact that people doubt there were WMD's is kind of a joke. Pretty much EVERY intelligence agency said the same thing about the WMD's. There was absolutely no reason to believe they weren't there.
We have satellite pictures of Iraq tearing down weapons sites, as well as huge shipments leaving the country before the invasion.
Weapons factories have been found in Iraq.
There's more political reasons for the CIA to say there aren't WMD's now, then to say there were WMD's before.
Originally posted by twitchy
As far as the rest of the world knew and understood, Saddam was in compliance with UN resolutions regarding WMD's.
It's bad when propoganda is so effective that people are still debating it's legitimacy even after the folks who started the story have admitted that it wasn't true.
As far as the rest of the world knew and understood, Saddam was in compliance with UN resolutions regarding WMD's.
Yellow Cake from Nigeria maybe?
As far as your statement that all the intelligence agencies said he had WMD's, which ones?
The only WMD's we knew Saddam had for sure were the ones Rumsfeld sold him in the 80's, the ones we had the reciept for.
War had reduced Sadam's offensive military capability to near nothingless, the crippling sanctions imposed wouldn't even let him import the chemicals needed to make band-aids
UN inspectors which had been in Iraq for nearly two decades hadn't found chit.
www.cnn.com...
Ms. Rice acknowledged that the president's information turned out to be "not credible," but insisted that the White House hadn't realized this until after Mr. Bush had cited it in his State of the Union address...
"It was well known throughout the intelligence community that it was a forgery," said Melvin Goodman, a former C.I.A. analyst who is now at the Center for International Policy.
Still, Mr. Tenet and the intelligence agencies were under intense pressure to come up with evidence against Iraq. Ambiguities were lost, and doubters were discouraged from speaking up.
www.independent-media.tv...
Thirteen months later, on March 8, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, informed the U.N. Security Council that after careful scrutiny of the Niger documents, his agency had reached the same conclusion as the CIA's envoy. ElBaradei deemed the documents "not authentic," an assessment that U.S. officials did not dispute.
www.isis-online.org...
Russia was not convinced by either the September 24, 2002 British dossier or the October 4, 2002 CIA report. Lacking sufficient evidence, Russia dismissed the claims as a part of a "propaganda furor."...He goes on to say, "Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners yet. This fact has also been supported by the information sent by the CIA to the US Congress."...
French intelligence services did not come up with the same alarming assessment of Iraq and WMD as did the Britain and the United States. "According to secret agents at the DGSE, Saddam's Iraq does not represent any kind of nuclear threat at this time…It [the French assessment] contradicts the CIA's analysis…"5 French spies said that the Iraqi nuclear threat claimed by the United States was a "phony threat."
...Germany did not find Powell's "evidence" strong enough to support the U.S.'s stance on the Iraqi threat.
www.greenleft.org.au...
According to William Blum, writing in the August 1998 issue of the Progressive, Sam Gejdenson, chairperson of a Congressional subcommittee investigating US exports to Iraq, disclosed that from 1985 until 1990 “the US government approved 771 licenses [only 39 were rejected] for the export to Iraq of $1.5 billion worth of biological agents and high-tech equipment with military application …
Just four months later, Washington stood by as the US giant Bechtel corporation won the contract to build a huge petrochemical plant that would give the Hussein regime the capacity to generate chemical weapons.
www.commondreams.org...
The CDC and a biological sample company, the American Type Culture Collection, sent strains of all the germs Iraq used to make weapons, including anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and the germs that cause gas gangrene, the records show. Iraq also got samples of other deadly pathogens, including the West Nile virus.
The transfers came in the 1980s, when the United States supported Iraq in its war against Iran. They were detailed in a 1994 Senate Banking Committee report and a 1995 follow-up letter from the CDC to the Senate.
Originally posted by Disturbed Deliverer
They did in the 80's. It's certainly not beneath them.
WMD's and conventional weapons.
Why would Iraq be shipping AK-47's to Syria? Why would they just suddenly start sending wheat just before an invasion? Interesting time and place to start trading.
That's bull. The factories have been found. I'd rather here the typical bonehead argument they were factories made for producing pesticides then this...
The Americans get a base in the Middle East, oil contracts, and get rid of a serious potential threat while the Iraqis get rid of a tyranical dictator who massacred his own people.
It's funny that people don't believe the CIA when they say something they disagree with, like Iran has a nuclear program, yet are quick to believe government whitewash like that...
The CIA could not politically keep saying there were WMD's with the media hounding on the lack of evidence. The public believed there were mistakes, so the government had to make it look like they were doing something to fix the problems.
It doesn't take several thousand men,
and many parts of Saddam's regime did go run into Syria and Iran.