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

To: Brumar89 who wrote (28801)	10/12/2004 10:37:19 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 173976

America is being attacked, 80 times/day under Bush. We occupy Iraq, it's a part of us. An attack on Iraq is an attack on us.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (28801)	10/12/2004 11:31:21 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Here's something else that's weird about conservatives...we hear day after day about WMD, then WMD programs, then Saddam was "thinking" about WMD programs. We hear day after day in a post 9-11 world that we can't take the chance that Iraq would give [or sell] WMD to terrorists who would use them against us [not that we care about the rest of the world.]. So we go into Iraq and what do we do about protecting the nuclear facilities that were being inspected? Nothing...they get looted....not just in the first days of the war, but one year into the occupation, the facilities are still unguarded and continued to be looted! Nuclear material 'has gone missing' since war By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor 13 October 2004 An alarming report that nuclear material had disappeared from Iraq under the noses of the US-led Allies and Iraqi authorities yesterday prompted calls for the return of UN weapons inspectors. The UN nuclear watchdog said in a letter to the UN Security Council that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) remained concerned about the "widespread and apparently systematic" dismantling of Iraqi nuclear sites. It is not the first time that the IAEA has expressed such concern, prompting fears that the equipment could be sold by looters to countries such as Iran. But the timing of the report is politically sensitive. Coming less than three weeks before the US presidential election, it could cause further criticism of policies in Iraq. The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, played down the IAEA report in Parliament, saying that he believed that most of the looting had taken place amid the chaos that followed the Iraq war in spring last year. But IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said that the systematic looting had now been going on "for more than a year." The IAEA was first alerted to the problem last December when a steel vessel contaminated with uranium turned up in a Rotterdam scrapyard. The shipment was traced back to Iraq via Jordan. Other nuclear-related material has shown up in Turkey. In his 1 October letter to the UN Security Council, the IAEA director general, Mohamed El Baradei, said that satellite pictures had in some cases shown "the dismantling of entire buildings that housed high precision equipment". The nuclear-related material had been looted from sites which had been monitored by the IAEA until the Iraq war, to guard against Iraq resuming its clandestine nuclear activities. Since then, the sites were supposed to have been guarded by coalition forces and by Iraqi authorities. The Iraqi interim Science and Technology Minister, Rashad Omar, said that if the nuclear inspectors wanted to return to Iraq to check for the missing equipment and materials they were welcome. news.independent.co.uk So we didn't find what we thought was there [WMD stockpiles] and we lost what the UN Inspectors knew was there. That's weird. How does that make us safer? If that isn't bizarre enough this Rashad Omar says that the UN inspectors are welcome to return to Iraq to look for the missing equipment and materials. It seems the coalition doesn't really care that all this stuff is missing. IF the IAEA is concerned they can look for it. But that's why we allegedly went in. jttmab