X went through all of them... I only feel like hitting 3.
5) Saddam was actively training Islamist terrorists in Salman Pak.
You should let Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, at the U.S. Central Command know. They went through Salman Pak and he couldn't come up with that conclusion.
[Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, at the U.S. Central Command’s ]Brooks said he did not know whether any of the reported foreign fighters were connected to known terrorist organizations. However, he said information gleaned from foreign fighters before the raid left no doubt that the site was used for training terrorists.
"The nature of the work being done by some of those people that we captured, their inferences to the type of training they received, all these things give us the impression that there was terrorist training that was conducted at Salman Pak," he said.
"We did also find some other things there," he continued. "We found some tanks and destroyed them. We found some armored personnel carriers and destroyed them, in small numbers," he said. " We destroyed some buildings that were used for command and control, and some other buildings that were used for morale and welfare. We destroyed the complex.
The best he could come up with was an "impression".
6) Saddam was proclaiming himself victor against America, louder and louder,.... whoopee! That's a damned good reason to kill thousands of people. You must be a real joy on the freeway..... ....and adopting the Islamist program in public. The Islamist program???? Is that like the homosexual agenda?
Containment and sanctions were breaking down,....
"Containment" has to do with keeping someone from invading another country. Which country was Iraq recently invading?
You might make note that Israel asserted just prior to the war that Iraq's military capability was severely degraded over a decade of sanctions.
This is also an interesting story....
guardian.co.uk
The [Kuwait] government said months ago that it was buying gas masks for most of its 2.4 million people, but it changed course after consulting with its allies and instead distributed a few thousand masks to police, oil and aid workers. 20 Mar 2003
Kuwait was told by an ally they didn't need gas masks to any significant degree. Funny.
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