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2003-03-11 Iraq

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Posted by ISHMAIL 2003-03-11 12:07 pm|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Isnât that too much of a coincidence, whenever Hans Blix presents a report, to the Security Council, within a week inspectors find something big.
After the last report, they found the controversial al-samoud missiles. This time again within a week they find the drones and NOW ânew kind of bombsâ.
This also means that President Bush is working on right kind of assumptions- and the step to disarm and kick out of Saddam is based on good judgment and sagacity.

Posted by ISHMAIL 2003-03-11 01:29:25|| 2003-03-11 01:29:25|| Front Page Top

#2 nothing will make the French and the Russians vote. they are going to veto veto veto no matter what the evidence. Faster please, USA.

Posted by anon 2003-03-11 06:15:00|| 2003-03-11 06:15:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The links are not working. I would like to see the actual article.

Posted by bernardz 2003-03-11 06:29:38|| 2003-03-11 06:29:38|| Front Page Top

#4
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80676,00.html

There is also a nice photo of the buggers...pop rivets and coconut shells.

Posted by Dick Saucer 2003-03-11 07:42:43|| 2003-03-11 07:42:43|| Front Page Top

#5 GWB and Powell need to jettison this goddamn UN bullshit and get on with the task of taking out Saddam. There is NO MORE work left to be done on the vote-getting front; if a stash of shells were found that had chem or bio agents in them, France and Russia STILL WOULD NOT CHANGE THEIR VOTES. Fawning over the worthless and toothless UN at this late stage is simply a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME AND EFFORT.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Powell, enough is enough. Lets get moving already.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-03-11 10:33:08|| 2003-03-11 10:33:08|| Front Page Top

#6 You want more inspectors? We got 300,000 of them just waiting to go. And they won't stumble
over things.

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-11 11:29:32|| 2003-03-11 11:29:32|| Front Page Top

#7 IMHO this exercise, while frustrating, seems to have a purpose or at least some positive elements. The disgusting antics of the French, along with the Blix â el Baradai circus, are having a beneficial effect in that they are de-legitimizing the UN and convincing one of the more important subsets of the US population â the reasonable but uninformed (or misinformed) middle American - that Bush is justified in proceeding with the pre-emption doctrine without UN sanction.

From the NY Times
âAmericans are growing impatient with the United Nations and say they would support military action against Iraq even if the Security Council refuses to support an invasion, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
The poll found that 58 percent of Americans said the United Nations was doing a poor job in managing the Iraqi crisis, a jump of 10 points from a month ago. And 55 percent of respondents in the latest poll would support an American invasion of Iraq, even if it was in defiance of a vote of the Security Council.â

The process now is painful, but being able to ignore much of the UN bloviating in the future will be a very useful thing.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-03-11 13:43:43|| 2003-03-11 13:43:43|| Front Page Top

#8 The more noise they make now, the more obvious it will become that they are idiots, and not to be trusted, when it turns out (as we all hope) that their predictions, their slanderous predictions even, were wrong.

Posted by George Stewart 2003-03-11 17:06:17|| 2003-03-11 17:06:17|| Front Page Top

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