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To: Sully- who wrote (19272)5/19/2003 7:24:25 PM
From: Mannie  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 89467
 
I realize it's a political issue with you & your peers..

And you are independent and always correct. Yes, I remember.

We'll see who's right in the long run. It's just getting started.



To: Sully- who wrote (19272)5/19/2003 8:00:28 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (8) | Respond to of 89467
 
<UN reports right to the very end clearly indicated massive
amounts of unaccounted for WMD's. That's a fact.>

No, actually, that's not a fact. What the UN said, right up to the end, was that Iraq was not in full compliance with inspections. They said that Iraq had not been able to account for every machine, every barrel, every item. What the Bush Admin said, is that Iraq had WMD. Those are two totally different statements.

I was willing to wait, until the search teams had searched. They have, and now they are packing up and coming home. They found nothing. In fact, they found less than what the UN inspectors pre-war had found, because it was not a priority to seize and guard the sites. An odd omission, given all the pre-war hysteria about Iraqi WMD.

You, and the rest of the apologists, would like to leave the question unanswered forever. Just like you're quite content to let the Guantanamo prisoners sit there in legal limbo forever, and you are in no hurry to see the results of the investigation into those prisoners who were beaten to death while in U.S. custody at Bagram Air Base.

let's study it further = let's forget about it



To: Sully- who wrote (19272)5/20/2003 9:22:57 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
UN reports right to the very end clearly indicated massive amounts of unaccounted for WMD's. That's a fact.

Perhaps you could explain how you can get such a conclusion from the reports. Here is an actual fact, not just a proclamation:

cnn.com

Mr. President, as I have reported on numerous occasions, the IAEA concluded by December 1998 that it had neutralized Iraq's past nuclear program and that, therefore, there was no unresolved disarmament issues left at that time.