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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (75361)	4/12/2006 11:55:32 AM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Nobody believed that garbage about the mobile bio-weapons labs. Fact is that most of the evidence presented by Powell in his dog and pony show was a joke. That is why they didn't get the support they needed at the UNSC. Many, including Kofi Anan were of the opinion that they needed a vote to get UNSC approval of the invasion, otherwise the invasion/occupation was illegal under international law.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (75361)	4/24/2006 10:52:21 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

"Two teams of military experts who viewed the trailers soon after their discovery concluded that the facilities were weapons labs, a finding that strongly influenced views of intelligence officials in Washington, the analysts said. "It was hotly debated, and there were experts making arguments on both sides," said one former senior official who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. ....as late as February 2004, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet continued to assert that the mobile-labs theory remained plausible. Although there was "no consensus" among intelligence officials, the trailers "could be made to work" as weapons labs, he said in a speech Feb. 5." Something dishonest behind the curtain? No. Widely disputed determinations? Yes. Dan B.