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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: RMF who wrote (22988)9/18/2006 7:36:22 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
<< "We had Saddam under control and we had some understanding of Saddam. THAT'S why I didn't think it was necessary to invade Iraq." >>

I see that you continue to make assertions of fact via baseless OPINION. And as usual your opinion is completely at odds with known facts. The Iraq Survey Group (ISG) & the investigations into the Oil-for-Food (OFF) scandal have utterly destroyed the leftist meme that Saddam was "boxed in".

Not only was Saddam not "boxed in", he was regularly shooting at coalition forces enforcing the no-fly zones - each instance a clear act of war. Saddam was actively bribing the top officials of the UN, members of the Security Council & politicians from France, Russia, China, Germany & the UK, ET AL., with the full intention of having them bring an end to UN Sanctions & the Inspections regime. Saddam was using proceeds from OFF to make illegal weapons purchases, as well as for equipment & materials to improve his WMD Programs. He was also signing extremely lucrative contracts with those countries that were dependent on the end of sanctions & inspections.

And the ISG alone gathered overwhelming proof to conclude that the bribes were working & when sanctions were lifted & inspections ended, Saddam fully intended to ramp up his WMD programs immediately. This thread has documented this evidence nine ways to Sunday.

You may ignore those independently verifiable facts all you wish. You may not continue to express that faulty opinion here unless some new set of genuine facts somehow emerges to discredit the massive amount of evidence already known.

You see, this thread only allows reality based opinions. And yours thus far are, at best, personal assumptions lacking any basis in reality.
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