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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (1648)3/23/2003 12:52:08 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Respond to of 21614
 
OK, KAREN WHERE WERE YOU????
Message 18740297



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (1648)3/23/2003 12:52:38 PM
From: John Chen  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21614
 
Karen,re:"WMD". It should be cleared by now, what happened
to 1441 resolution will not be known YEARS from this damed
thing is OVER. Was UN 'spying', probably not? But USA was
using it to do a lot of groundwork for the war, including
intelligence collection, not directly from UN, but thru
the process.
This is a war of 'ideology'. Both sides with use all the
TOOLs to his/her own advantage, including (not limited to):
1. propaganda.
2. shut-up catch-phrase, like: 'patriotic', 'anti-semitic'..
This is the area USA lost the most. Depending on who
you are, your rank in the society, your sides ...,
there are things that you should not say.
Witness 'dixie chic'.
Now you wonder why 'Hitler' was popular at that time
since he started the war, 'patriotism', maybe.
3. we have all tools on the 'might' side, Spy-satellites,
missles, ....
...



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (1648)3/23/2003 12:55:35 PM
From: Sojourner Smith  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21614
 
The reason they aren't using them (yet) is they are still
hoping they can get bailed out by the UN.

Of course, you probably ignored the recordings Powell played where Iraq soldiers were clearly hiding mobile labs.



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (1648)3/23/2003 4:25:16 PM
From: Crimson Ghost  Respond to of 21614
 
Iraq has announced it will respect the Geneva Convention re: POWs. Too bad the US is not doing the same for its prisoners held in Cuba.



To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (1648)3/23/2003 4:44:30 PM
From: mistermj  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21614
 
Here Karen....now shut your ignorant pie hole.
US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT
jpost.com

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Caroline Glick Mar. 23, 2003

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About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad.

One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trapped explosive went off as he was clearing the sheet metal-lined facility, which resembles the eery images of scientific facilities in World War II concentration camps.

The huge 100-acre complex, which is surrounded by a electrical fence, is perhaps the first illegal chemical plant to be uncovered by US troops in their current mission in Iraq. The surrounding barracks resemble an abandoned slum.

It wasn't immediately clear exactly which chemicals were being produced here, but clearly the Iraqis tried to camouflage the facility so it could not be photographed aerially, by swathing it in sand-cast walls to make it look like the surrounding desert.

Within minutes of our entry into the camp on Sunday afternoon, at least 30 Iraqi soldiers and their commanding officer of the rank of General, obeyed the instructions of US soldiers who called out from our jeep in loudspeakers for them to lie down on the ground, and put their hands above their heads to surrender.

Today's operation is the third engagement with Iraqi forces by the First Brigade of the US army's 3rd Infantry Division, since Saturday afternoon.

So far in the campaign, the brigade has suffered no losses. But two were wounded Saturday night in an ambush on the outskirts of As-Samwah in southern Iraq.