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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Seaworthy Lyric who wrote (21012)	4/27/2003 3:15:53 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 93284

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, REDUX Jerry, This is one of the best articles I've read recently about the Iraq quagmire: atimes.com ************* Just some of the unanswered questions we need to have Rumsfeld cover up more thoroughly: <COPY> How did American forces manage to storm into and take over Baghdad with practically no resistance? In Basra, which is much smaller and which was relatively lightly defended, there was no pro-Anglo-American uprising, and the city took three weeks to be subdued. What happened to the 20,000-strong, well-equipped Special Republican Guards, charged with the defense of Baghdad? Where did they melt away to? How come there was no coordination between the Ba'ath Party-Republican Guard defense of Baghdad and the jihadis who poured in from Syria, Algeria, Yemen and Egypt to help? How come the Republican and Special Republican Guards did not destroy a single bridge in Baghdad - an effective tactic to delay the American invasion? How did the entire Iraqi cabinet manage to escape? This includes Saddam and his sons, Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, Dr A K Hashimi (Saddam's personal adviser), the ministers of defense, economy, trade and health and the unforgettable, insult-laden Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf of the information ministry. Similarly, how did the vast majority of the Ba'ath Party leadership and the Republican Guard evade capture or surrender? What happened to the infrastructure of the regime - the bulk of the estimated 500,000 elite? What has happened to Saddam? Is he still in Iraq, in Taramiya, not far from Tikrit, or in Mecca, as per wild speculation in the Arab world? Why were the oil fields in northern and southern Iraq not set on fire - a tactic already used by Saddam in Kuwait in 1991? Where are Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction - the official reason for the war?

To: Seaworthy Lyric who wrote (21012)	4/27/2003 9:07:37 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

France briefed Iraq on war: report April 27, 2003 FRANCE gave Saddam Hussein's regime regular reports on its dealings with US officials, The Sunday Times reported, quoting files it had found in the wreckage of the Iraqi foreign ministry. The conservative British weekly said the information kept Saddam abreast of every development in US planning and may have helped him to prepare for war. One report warned of a US "attempt to involve Iraq with terrorism" as "cover for an attack on Iraq", according to The Sunday Times. Another, dated September 25, 2001, from Naji Sabri, the Iraqi foreign minister, to Saddam's palace, was based on a briefing from the French ambassador in Baghdad and covered talks between presidents Jacques Chirac and US President George W Bush. Chirac was said to have been told that the US was "100 per cent certain Osama bin Laden was behind the September 11 attacks and that the answer of the United States would be decisive". news.com.au.