Regards, Ivan
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
He won't bring it up.
No one will ask him.
Kerry will only repeat the cherry-picked quotes that assert there are no wmds in Iraq.
Duelfer may also be a little peeved that the media is drawing the ABSOLUTE WRONG CONCLUSIONS from his report. It is SINFUL that our press ignores and/or wilfully misrepresents the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER we face. They are TRAITORS in my book.
I am very suspicious about any reports that come out this close to the election. There are lots of powerful interests who want to see Bush go down hard.
President Saddam Hussein of Iraq announced on Sunday that he is to give 25,000 USD each to the Palestinians who were rendered homeless during the Israeli "Defensive Wall" campaign.
The Iraqi President said that all of those who had lost their homes during the Israeli atrocities in Jenin would receive the money. The decision was taken during a meeting of the Iraqi Council of Ministers.
On Friday, the Iraqi government announced that it was to donate 10,000,000 USD to help the Palestinian fight against (Israeli) occupation. Iraq has also announced that it has a volunteer force of six million armed men to liberate Palestine.
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
PRAVDA.Ru
Can't wait for the rest of the names to surface in the "oil for food" fiasco. I just hope "our side" is clean.
Kerry will say something related to Bremer's comments. Then will say "wrong war, wrong time" and then beg the surrender monkeys to forgive America for our wrong doings...
GWB cannot flub this up in the debate!
He has sent forth campaign advisors to lie about the report. The sympathetic media complies by presenting their statements unchallenged.
Our side better set the record straight. I am livid over the presentation I just saw Dr. Susan Rice who is with Kamp Kerry give on Fox News Channel.
This report, which is being touted by the media as a devastating blow to Bush, is actually positive.
Well, you wouldn't want to hear the swimmer bloviating on CSPIN this morning. Stomach turning to say the least.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said Wednesday he found no evidence that Iraq produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's ability to develop such weapons had dimmed - not grown - during a dozen years of sanctions before last year's U.S.-led invasion.
Contrary to prewar statements by President Bush, Saddam did not have chemical and biological stockpiles when the war began and his nuclear capabilities were deteriorating, not advancing, said Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group.
The findings comes less than four weeks before an election in which Bush's handling of Iraq is the central issue... blah, blah, blah.
It is necessary to go well into the story to learn that Duelfer also supports Bush's argument that Saddam remained a threat...and still wanted to pursue weapons of mass destruction and hoped to revive his weapons program if U.N. sanctions were lifted.
And it is necessary to go TO THE END OF THE A.P. STORY to learn that, He (Duelfer) said he believed sanctions against Saddam - even through they appeared to work in part - were unsustainable long term.
So if you want the news out of A.P., NYT, etc, you have to start at the end and go forward through going backward.
There's conspicuous ommissions from the A.P. story:
1) the CIA and other intelligence sources thought Saddam had WMD's - some of which were known and have never been accounted for;
2) everyone, including Democrats - including Jay Rockefeller on the Senate Intelligence Committee - thought Saddam had WMD's;
3)and finally, but not least, if Saddam did have them, he would have almost surely used them against invading forces -and the fact that we accomplished a change of a murderous and dangerous regime without our men and women, in all the allied forces, facing WMD's should make everyone kneel and give the greatest - the greatest - of thanks from our hearts that he didn't have them.
He won't have to say a thing. The media will not bring it up.
The reason I want to find it is because in this letter Dr. Kelley laments how much he hates war but after being on the inspection team looking for Iraq's WMD he finally realized that the only way to end the mess of Saddam was war. He talked of how Saddam systematically deceived the inspectors at every turn. Dr. Kelley also knew that Saddam could have been selling or giving other terrorists WMD, so although he loathed war, he saw it as the only possible way to do away with the Saddam and Sons threat.
If you have any idea where I can find that letter I'd be ever so grateful. It was published in one of the Brit papers. The Guardian comes to mind for some reason but I've looked and looked there to no avail.
Thanks for any help sugar! ;-)
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