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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (495526)	11/19/2003 2:30:40 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

re: And had WMD ready to launch in 45 minutes. And had unmanned drones to deliver them, and had missiles to deliver them few things: 1) delivery means were found 2) no one argues the fact that old stockpile of nerve gases existed 3) Sadam refused to provide not only detailed documentation of how nerve gasses were destroyed but also the location where those chemicals were destroyed. It seems no one remembered where they were destroyed. The burden of proof was on Saddam and hence Saddam violated peace treaty. 4) UN did not have guts to take appropriate actions - the story is way to similar to League of Nations not taking actions against Hitler 5) Bush did what needed to be done

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (495526)	11/19/2003 2:48:20 PM
From: Joel Karlinsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Invading Iraq was and is all about controlling the region's oil. This all has to do with who will benefit financially from the world's remaining oil. Read Hubbert's Peak, and learn why the Texas Oil Mafia has so much influence on energy policy. There ain't that much oil left in the ground, most of the "cheap" oil is already gone. What remains is mostly in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, China (one large field) and Russia. America was built on cheap energy.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (495526)	12/7/2003 2:29:50 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

It's like the intelligence that said that Saddam was reconstituting nukes. And had WMD ready to launch in 45 minutes. And had unmanned drones to deliver them, and had missiles to deliver them. All false. Maybe, maybe not. Iraqi Colonel 'Source of 45-Minute Wmd Claim' news.scotsman.com print close Sun 7 Dec 2003 2:43am (UK) Iraqi Colonel 'Source of 45-Minute Wmd Claim' By Gavin Cordon, Whitehall Editor, PA News An Iraqi officer said he was the source of the controversial claim in the Government’s Iraq dossier that some weapons of mass destruction could be deployed within 45 minutes, it was reported today. The officer, identified only as Lieutenant Colonel al-Dabbagh, told The Sunday Telegraph that he had provided several reports to British intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s WMD plans from early 2002. He told the paper that these included details of how frontline units – including an air defence unit which he commanded in the western desert – had been supplied with cases of WMD warheads towards the end of last year. The devices, which were said to have been known by Iraqi officers as “the secret weapon”, were said to have been made in Iraq and designed to be launched by hand-held rocket-propelled grenades. “I am the one responsible for providing this information,” he was quoted as saying. “Forget 45 minutes, we could have fired these within half-an-hour.” Col al-Dabbagh does not specify in the article whether the warheads contained chemical or biological agents. He said he believed that they had now been hidden at secret locations by Saddam’s fedayeen militias still in Iraq. The Sunday Telegraph said that Col al-Dabbagh had spied for the Iraqi National Accord – a London-based exile group – for several years before the war and was now working as an adviser for the Iraqi Governing Council. Downing Street last night refused to comment on the report. A spokesman said that the Government would urge all those involved to pass on any information they believed they had to the Iraq Survey Group which is conducting the hunt for Saddam’s WMD. Latest News: news.scotsman.com