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2021-03-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Victor Davis Hanson: The Legends of Our Fall

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Posted by JohnQC 2021-03-15 08:14|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Article should have been posted as NonWOT or Opinion.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-03-15 08:38|| 2021-03-15 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 After Saddam’s removal, U.S. forces did not find depots of poisonous and nerve gases.

You want to live and die by that statement?

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-15 09:04|| 2021-03-15 09:04|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Given who was in charge of finding out if there were NBC weapons in Iraq (Ritter, Blix) which way would you have bet?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-03-15 09:26|| 2021-03-15 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 P2k: VDH might want to live and die by that statement but I recall that WMDs were found.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-03-15 09:28|| 2021-03-15 09:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Anybody else recall the brief reporting of large transport vehicles in convoy into Iran in theate stages of the US invasion? What struck me afterwards was the tal lack of follow-up reporting, almost as if the sources were shut off.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-03-15 12:37|| 2021-03-15 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Gosh, golly, Hanson is so smart! We didn't find depots set up for a World War I offensive piled high with chemical munitions. Ergo, it is "totally and in all ways inconceivable" that Saddam was hiding an WMD Program (/sarc)

"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means..."

Posted by magpie 2021-03-15 13:59|| 2021-03-15 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 the brief reporting of large transport vehicles in convoy into Iran in theate stages of the US invasion?

To the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon is what I recall. And long ditches surrounding Baghdad and elsewhere filled with burning chemical for days — it’s a wonder that all the babies in the region weren’t born with fins and three eyes for the next nine months.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-15 14:58|| 2021-03-15 14:58|| Front Page Top

#8 They found old chemical munitions, but the Russians helped them move the good stuff to Syria (or Lebanon) using a convoy of tractor trailers. This was all linked on the Burg at the time. The border guards were replaced by the Republican Guard for the event.

Posted by KBK 2021-03-15 15:37|| 2021-03-15 15:37|| Front Page Top

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