White House: Saddam Has Missed His Last Chance

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White House: Saddam Has Missed His Last Chance

[fxfox]

the funy thing is:

 

he never had a chance

 

maybe if i would have said: "ok, i go to lybia"

[Guest yobob1]

fxfox is right. It wouldn't have mattered what Sadam said or did. Oh maybe if he said I am killing all my family and then committing suicide it might have slowed down the invasion, they would have had to come up with another excuse. Shrub must pull the trigger soon or be forced to rotate the troops and re-equip them for summer heat. They are dangerously close to the end of the window of opportunity for the current deployment.

 

This is as much about revenge for daddy as anything else. I'm beginning to wish that Gore had won the beauty contest in the Supreme Court. Nothing in the economy would have been different in all probability, but at least we might not have had this madman at the wheel; a different sort of madness to be sure, but perhaps one less likely to lead to an ill conceived, illegal, morally bankrupt war.

[Guest yobob1]

Iraq not in material breach of UN yet, says Straw

 

LONDON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Thursday Iraq was not "so far" in material breach of a U.N. disarmament resolution and that any military action should preferably be backed by a second resolution.

 

But he told BBC radio that if the Security Council blocked a second U.N. resolution on military action against Iraq, a strike could take place without the U.N.'s support.

 

"What we would hope is that if there was the clearest evidence of a further material breach, the Security Council would accept its responsibilities and say the will of the international community had to be enforced by all necessary means -- which means military action," Straw said.

 

"But if that was blocked, and I know we've been around the houses on this, then we obviously have to reserve the right for what we call the Kosovo option."

 

He was referring to military action without a U.N. resolution, as in the case of the Yugoslav province of Kosovo in 1999.

[Goldmember]

Once John Snow is in place Jan 7 it's bombs away! Gotta have flapping gums lying about the soundness of the dollar before the real shit hits the fan.

[Hoodwinked]

Like I posted on another thread, we know what he has as we helped to supply it.

 

Most of the sales were legal and often made with the knowledge of governments. In 1985-90, the U.S. Commerce Department, for example, licensed $1.5 billion in sales to Iraq of American technology with potential military uses. Iraq was then getting Western support for its war against Iran, which at the time was regarded as the main threat to stability in the oil-rich Gulf region.

 

 

Iraq Identified Nuclear Program Suppliers

By DAFNA LINZER

ASSOCIATED PRESS

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/.../121807667.html

[Hypertiger]

"Oh maybe if he said I am killing all my family and then committing suicide it might have slowed down the invasion"

 

Comic genius...

[assteroid]

Ironically, it was the zeal to invade that had me convinced that Hussein couldn't have much in the way of nuclear weaponry or potential, for that matter. You'd think the Israelis would be a touch antsy about the potential to be blasted to kingdom come. But there seems to be a bit of hedging (masquerading as diplomacy) about getting in there and doing the job. My gut tells me they actually ARE feeling a bit edgey about going in there now. It may not happen, all chest thumping aside.

 

They may have had time to give some serious thought to the possibility of a Vietnam scenario, and all the downsides associated with it. Venezuela may also be causing them grief. Then there is the problem of the biochemical weapons. How do you convince a weary and increasingly critical population to wage a war against a dictator who has tons of stock piled smallpox, anthrax, etc...? Further, how do you stop the foreign press from carefully explaining that this stuff was supplied to Iraq, against international decree by the U.S., long after the laws passed in 1969 forbidding it.

 

You're pretty much asking soldiers to march into Bagdhad in heavy protective gear in 100 degree heat, to be bombarded by their own govt.'s biochemicals. And God knows what kind of simple artillery they have stored in Bagdhad. It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel. The military brass aren't stupid. They know it. Colin Powell knows it. If they don't move immediately, they can't. War's off. They missed their window of opportunity. Thank God, and thank Colin Powell.

[assteroid]

Hoodwinked --The Las Vegas Sun article on American and European corporate ties to the Iraqis regime takes a soft handed, gullible approach to the subject.

 

The initial UN report was illegally seized by U.S. --The American team then issued their own copies to the other members of the security council. The copied documents had info on corporate and govt. complicity and aid in biochemical and nuclear aid to Iraq.... DELETED. Apparently this story is just breaking in Europe and is huge.

 

It's not looking good for the administration. It's a public relations nightmare.

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From "Democracy Now"

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"The list of U.S. corporations listed in Iraq's report include Hewlett Packard, DuPont, Honeywell, Rockwell, Tectronics, Bechtel, International Computer Systems, Unisys, Sperry and TI Coating.

 

Zumach also said the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture quietly helped arm Iraq. U.S. government nuclear weapons laboratories Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia trained traveling Iraqi nuclear scientists and gave non-fissile material for construction of a nuclear bomb.

 

?There has never been this kind of comprehensive layout and listing like we have now in the Iraqi report to the Security Council so this is quite new and this is especially new for the U.S. involvement, which has been even more suppressed in the public domain and the U.S. population,? Zumach said.

 

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/1551944.php

[Hypertiger]

The war is a never ending war, it is conquest

 

Get Iraq, get the oil then Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran,

 

then North Korea and China, if they time it right the economic collapse will provide them with more soldiers and resources for the clash of civilizations.

 

Another terrorist event will happen 100% to get the mindless American public on board... Plain and simple.

 

The White House is under the control of pirates...

 

I've alluded to the fact before that I think like these filth up above and that is the game plan. The only game plan...

 

In Afganistan more U.S. soldiers have been killed than the Gulf war but is the mainstrem reporting it? Not if they want a paycheck. "Just think positive" Hint hint...

 

There is a chance the war will not happen, but it is slim...

 

As for the "victory" or "defeat" helping the economy... Not a chance, the economy is already doomed and nothing can stop what has been started.

[Hoodwinked]

Ass I know its soft, like the Enron vids, but hey its a start. I doubt we saw the really good skits.

Sooner or later the past catches up.....sloooowly but surely. Once our weak ass press starts getting scooped they may have to jump on the band wagon. I can barely stand to listen to the "fair and balanced" Bush network anymore.

With the Shrubberies past, the astros are only giving him so much time. Still got him being run out of town in the Fall. The only problem with that time frame is we will already be a world of hurt. :cry:

[Jorma]

and that's the news.

 

In weather, dark tonight, big light in sky towards morning.

 

(Since this comment is drenched in sarcasm and sarcasm it hard to pick up in these forums I will spell it out. Of course he missed his chance with this paper game. The 'news' was preordained. It contains no information.)

[Hypertiger]

Jorma, your such a kidder...