Colin Powell demands answers over 'Curveball'

The Telegraph ^ | 2/17/2011

[FreeKeys]

No one can ever prove a negative, meaning you can’t prove you don’t possess something.

That's true. And that's why he should have made videos or movies of what he had being destroyed (or trucked to Syria, as his generals have said was done). Beyond that, we still wouldn't know if he destroyed or shipped them all. Just another reason why we should have assumed he still had them and/or the ability and the will to re-constitute them if he didn't. Another reason Saddam had to be taken out was because he tried to assassinate one of our ex-presidents. NO dictator should be allowed to assume he could get away with anything like that. Unfortunately, with Obambi in the White House now, I believe dictators around the globe have started assuming much worse.

[TigersEye]

Don’t pass off the blame to others.

That is what Affirmative Action hires do. It is their essence.

[marron]

Someone is trying to rewrite history.

During the invasion they found a nerve agent chemical plant and nerve agent stockpiles in Iraqi army ammo dumps. They renamed them “agricultural pesticide” and presto-chango, WMD disappeared as if it never was.

They found it, and they redefined it out of existence.

[Vendome]

FO you senile old man.

You voted your conscience and we know you are nothing more than a politician who ascended to the highest level he could.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

We didn't have to prove he still had WMDs. HE had the burden of proving that he did NOT have them any longer.

Exactly how does one prove a negative?

[garbanzo]

The Iraq War will probably be the last of the “realpolitik” wars because the sort of conventions used in initiating those conflicts can’t be sustained in the modern age. Most people who understood realpolitik understood the WMD angle as an excuse to exercise the national interest in removing Saddam Hussein from power. But others are borderline autistic and can only understand the world in simplistic hyperliteral terms, so they can only understand the concept of “dying for a lie”.

[Vendome]

Because....? /s

[TexasFreeper2009]

I meant after we caught him in the spider hole, sorry for the confusion.

Although I did enjoy seeing him swing :P

[Vision]

Powell: A racist dimwit who’s only where he is because of the color of his skin. A sad case.

[AppyPappy]

By allowing inspectors in weapons sites and not turning them away at gunpoint.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

By allowing inspectors in weapons sites and not turning them away at gunpoint.

Was this before or after GHW Bush lied to Hussein about not taking any position wrt his border dispute with Kuwait?

[AppyPappy]

Bush spoke to Hussein?

[jazusamo]

Good to hear. I did too! :-)

[1010RD]

He always reminds me of the black general from Mars Attacks!

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Bush spoke to Hussein?

Through his emissary, yes.

[SoldierDad]

So, the artillary shells which were found buried and loaded with chemical weapons after the fall of the Saddam regime were what?

[FreeKeys]

Exactly how does one prove a negative?

One can't. That included Saddam. And THAT'S exactly why we didn't have to wait for him to do so. It was tough being a bragging, threatening, a$$hole dictator when there were MORAL countries around, wasn't it? Because rightful countries can do any damn thing they want to inhuman, rightless countries and dictators. Doesn't necessarily make it cost-effective to do so, however.

[Chunga]

Most people who understood realpolitik understood The cynical among us smugly interpreted the WMD angle as an excuse to exercise the national interest in removing Saddam Hussein from power.

Fixed

[airborne]

Maybe Powell would like to talk to some "witnesses" of Saddam having WMD's ...

. . . But none of them lived to tell their tale.

[Fledermaus]

Don’t go away mad Colin, just GO AWAY! Putz.