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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: John Sladek who wrote (9919)4/13/2004 8:30:12 AM
From: PartyTime  Respond to of 173976
 
I'm now strolling down Memory Lane on SI's DON'T START THE WAR thread. I'll probably be posting some intersting tidbits throughout the day, like the one below:

Message 18709115

[NOTE: I'm looking for one post in particular that I wrote, a post I'm sure the whole board, in retrospect, will find both sad and amusing.]



To: John Sladek who wrote (9919)4/13/2004 8:32:39 AM
From: PartyTime  Respond to of 173976
 
>>> That Saddam is bad is not the issue here. The issue is will America become like him by promulgating an action that will kill nearly as many people as Saddam has, this while fracturing long-trusted and needed allies in the process.<<<

Message 18708878



To: John Sladek who wrote (9919)4/13/2004 8:38:09 AM
From: PartyTime  Respond to of 173976
 
Notice how the media, in this instance, Associated Press, reported the conditions:

>>>Iraq also handed over videotapes of mobile biological weapons laboratories to inspectors. Iraq says the videos show the laboratories do not violate U.N. resolutions.<<<

Message 18708851

Seems as though it was the media that labled the vehicles as "mobile biological weapons laboratories." Of course, these were later deemed mobile hydrogen vehicles for inflating balloons for artillary practice, sold to Saddam by the British.