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

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (534648)	2/3/2004 9:58:30 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Tinhead, do you live in a vacuum? Did Ambassador Wilson make this same mistake? first and foremost, Wilson is a true blue Dem. who follows Dem marching orders. Did Hans Blix make the same mistake yes, Hans Blix knew Saddam had WMD too. Dr. Blix detailed the following breech's of 1441: Failure to account for WMD and WMD Programs known to exist as of 1998 when UNSCOM inspectors left Iraq: (Iraq has failed to account for 1,000 tons of chemical agent, long-range missiles and biological agents – outlined in his earlier report as 25,000 liters of anthrax, 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin and 500 tons of sarin, mustard gas and VX nerve agent.) "How much, if any, is left of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and related proscribed items and programmes? So far, UNMOVIC has not found any such weapons, only a small number of empty chemical munitions, which should have been declared and destroyed. Another matter – and one of great significance – is that many proscribed weapons and items are not accounted for. To take an example, a document, which Iraq provided, suggested to us that some 1,000 tonnes of chemical agent were "unaccounted for". One must not jump to the conclusion that they exist. However, that possibility is also not excluded. If they exist, they should be presented for destruction. If they do not exist, credible evidence to that effect should be presented." "I referred, as examples, to the issues of anthrax, the nerve agent VX and long-range missiles, and said that such issues "deserve to be taken seriously by Iraq rather than being brushed aside". The declaration submitted by Iraq on 7 December, despite its large volume, missed the opportunity to provide the fresh material and evidence needed to respond to the open questions. This is perhaps the most important problem we are facing. Although I can understand that it may not be easy for Iraq in all cases to provide the evidence needed, it is not the task of the inspectors to find it. Iraq itself must squarely tackle this task and avoid belittling the questions." Material Breech on Illegal Missiles : "I noted that the Al Samoud 2 and the Al Fatah could very well represent prima facie cases of proscribed missile systems, as they had been tested to ranges exceeding the 150-kilometre limit set by the Security Council. I also noted that Iraq had been requested to cease flight tests of these missiles until UNMOVIC completed a technical review." Message 19301935 Did the fellow who "killed himself" in England for revealing the falsity of WMD make the same mistake? Blair has been fully vindicated of that and three BBC employees quit over the lies they told. usatoday.com What the problem is you little sorelosers sucking your thumbs whining all the time.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (534648)	2/3/2004 10:02:28 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

What I can't wait to see is this: What was Hans Blix specifically investigating, where was most of his team's attention, right at the time of the invasion? Think any GOPwingers would care to know where? Well, if they're wondering--even though I know they ain't!--Blix and his team was, at the time days before the invasion, investigating the very site where Saddam's son-in-law Kamel stated the WMD had been destroyed and buried. There was a debate ongoing over which scientific techniques were best to use in order to determine the accuracy and extent to what got buried. This is why America today is seeing more Gold Star Mothers. Because Bush would not wait for the results of the testing of this site. The Bush Administration chose to accept only half of what Kamel told them, that Iraq was close to nuclear in the late-80s (see Cheney's speech before the 2002 103rd VFW Convention). Bush completely ignored, indeed found inconvenient, Kamel's statement that Iraq's WMD had been destroyed and buried--a statement that chief UN weapons inspectors Scott Ritter and Rolf Ekeus took to light when they both pronounced, pre-war, Iraq's WMD had been destroyed. I believe former Defense Secretary Bill Cohen also is on record as saying the WMD had been destroyed.