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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (11111)	7/18/2004 6:33:33 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 90947

Eleven years ago, as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War, the Iraqi regime was required to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, to cease all development of such weapons, and to stop all support for terrorist groups. The Iraqi regime has violated all of those obligations. It possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. whitehouse.gov OK. I've got a question: Where are they? We have invaded and occupied the country. And we have failed to find them. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas. Saddam Hussein also has experience in using chemical weapons. He has ordered chemical attacks on Iran, and on more than forty villages in his own country. These actions killed or injured at least 20,000 people, more than six times the number of people who died in the attacks of September the 11th. And surveillance photos reveal that the regime is rebuilding facilities that it had used to produce chemical and biological weapons. Every chemical and biological weapon that Iraq has or makes is a direct violation of the truce that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Yet, Saddam Hussein has chosen to build and keep these weapons despite international sanctions, U.N. demands, and isolation from the civilized world. AGAIN: WHERE ARE THEY? Clearly, to actually work, any new inspections, sanctions or enforcement mechanisms will have to be very different. They have been very different. And they didn't turn up the evidence. Come on. Even the Administration has admitted this now. U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 THat's nice. So now we're in the business of enforcing UN resolutions? If the UN wanted that resolution enforced, why didn't it approve use of force against Iraq? And when are we invading Israel? I think they hold the record for defying UN resolutions. Iraq and Terrorism If you have proof Iraq was behind 911, produce it. Has Iraq supported supported terrorist attacks against Israel? Yes. When did we become Israel's big brother? Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 (PL 105-338) fcnl.org SEC. 8. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize or otherwise speak to the use of United States Armed Forces (except as provided in section 4(a)(2)) in carrying out this Act. Did you miss that? What we have is (a) no WMD (b) no connection to 911 Why did we invade again?