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(...) I think the answer is painfully obvious. No country, esp. now that the preemptive nuclear bar has been raised -- but not even then when the means to enforce sovereignty might be at stake, can afford to allow other countries to believe they are (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, really? Then why was the UN sending weapons inspectors into Iraq in the first place? Not much of a memory, Mr Marchetti. They went to verify that weapons were destroyed, not to verify whether they existed or not. (...) Who is "we"? (...) (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello wrote: Here is the key difference, Blix was not sent in to find WMD's, he was sent in (...) And what the heck was the deal with all of the gas masks everywhere??? The argument that the WMD never existed (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here is the key difference, Blix was not sent in to find WMD's, he was sent in to verify Iraq's declaration of the status of their WMD program. We mistakenly called his team "inspectors" when they should have been called "verifiers". In spite (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Because of the views of some here, I offer a more Republican take on the current scandal... Warner Seeks Release of Pentagon Iraq Weapons Report (Update1) (URL) June 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Senator John Warner, chairman of the Armed Services (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not much of a memory, have you Mr. Neal? Many here doubted the WMD evidence from the first. We all laughed at Colon Powell's poor performance before the U.N. (there are even sources that claim he was angry at the doctored evidence he was (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) He did have them in the eighties. We did not know if he had them now. Those things, once used, don't grow in trees... (...) Perhaps the weapons inspectors were too keen on following misleading intelligence work provided by the allies, rather (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, that's one way of looking at it. THen there's that truth, which is entirely a different matter-- "We have to go to war *now* because SH is a clear and imminent threat to the USofA." And, if I do recall, that the idea that Saddam had WMD (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Of course, I think my dad might have you beat (since he hasn't met the Filz I met). Of course there may also be a connection, so it may be hard to know if I should really stop counting... Frank (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Look, before the war there wasn't ANYBODY who doubted that SH had WMD. It was a given; period. There is documented proof that he used them on the Kurds and killed them by the 100,000s for crying out loud! So all of this "where are the WMD" is (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, you know that "moron" is all that Canadians know.... 'Cause A****** isn't a nice thing to say. Dave K (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. JOHN (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) haven't found Saddam Hussein, and I don't know anyone who's running around saying he didn't exist," Rumsfeld told reporters Thursday, following a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill. " That's so true, Rummy! Since there *was* a Saddam, there (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) President George W Bush on Thursday said it would take time to find Iraq's chemical and biological weapons, but he promised to "reveal the truth" about them. " Holy bold faced idiocy, Batman! "To the UN" says Mr. Blix before Feb, "Searching (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh but there's so much 'wiggle-room'. "Hey, we found these mobile lab trucks that were used to make WoMD--there's your proof! I didn't lie!" says Dubya. And of course, there's probably in the very near future "Oh look here under this rock that (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Missing Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Is Lying About The Reason For War An Impeachable Offense? (URL) To put it bluntly, if Bush has taken Congress and the nation into war based on bogus information, he is cooked. Manipulation or deliberate misuse of (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) No, I can't stop setting a new record every day until I actually find someone named Schlickbernd not related to me (and yes, the two black women named Schlickbernd are related). :-P -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) No, you can't beat the record until you actually find someone not related to you! :-) :-) :-) Frank (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) All of my moral panic appears to have been for naught, since the media conglomerates have obviously been looking out for the public interest all along: (URL) This seems oddly reminiscent of the closed-door energy policy meetings held by the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I rather thought she was spoofing the one with the other. If she was being serious, then she was just as moronic as Bush. Well, maybe not quite as moronic since Bush could put the drug terrorists out of business with a stroke of the pen (the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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