GAS WARHEADS ‘READY TO FIRE'

New York Post ^ | 4/08/03 | NILES LATHEM and ANDY SOLTIS

[VMI70]

"Having said that, if by some unimaginable fluke, we never find any WMD, will it really matter?"

Yes it will. The "company line" presented to us was that there were 2 major reasons to get into it with Saddam Hussein:

The first reason is that he is a present day Hitler, with hegemonic plans for the region, which of course we cannot allow because:

He is a proven, ruthless dictator, who will visit upon his conquests the same barbarity as did Hitler. To our credit, and no thanks to the UN, it seems we actually did learn from the appeasement mistakes of the pre WW-II decade.

He would control the mideast oil supply, which is unacceptable because of the economic damage he could do to us and the rest of world. Despite protestations to the contrary, oil is a huge factor in this incursion.

The second reason is that he has weapons of mass destruction, but if it is found that he does not, in the enormous quantities that we have alleged, then we have problems:

Our credibility comes into question if we feel the need, under the same reasoning, to repeat what we are doing in Iraq. Do not get me wrong. If the amounts that what we have discovered turn out to be legitimate chemical, biological, or radiological (CBR) substances, it is enough to create havoc. However, if the quantities discovered, that have made public to date, are true and accurate, then our allegations of the vast number of gallons, tons, however you want to measure them, are suspect.

I have maintained all along that if he did have CBR substances in the quantities advertised, he shipped them off to neighboring, like minded countries, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, et al., to store for future use by them or their harbored or supported terrorist organizations. We certainly gave him plenty of time to do that while we fooled around in the UN. If that is the case, then to fulfill our stated reasons for initiating this invasion, then we have no choice but to invade those countries to eliminate their newly acqured WMD.

My point is that we oversold the WMD part, and undersold the hegemonic and economic part. Maybe that's the way we diplomatically had to do it. If that is the case, then those depicting the U.S. as a newly minted "Roman Empire" will have a legitimate sounding argument.

[Lady In Blue]

ping

[doug from upland]

Finally, inspections are working. If the original inspectors had been armed with Abrams tanks, Daisy Cutters, F-18s, and precision guided weapons, they might have been able to do their job.

[Sofa King]

Saying "if we never find any WMD" is like saying "if we decide not to go into Iraq"

It's too late; we've already found WMD. Mustard gas doesn't just put itself into rivers.

[Young Werther]

Surely those missiles were filled with insecticide. Doesn't Hans Blix know Raid(tm) when he sees/smells it?

Maybe he would give them the sniff test in partnership with Chriraq so that the USof A can be properly condemned in the court of public opinion.

All together now, one..two..three... inhale!

Fools!!!

[c-b 1]

Finally, inspections are working. If the original inspectors had been armed with Abrams tanks, Daisy Cutters, F-18s, and precision guided weapons, they might have been able to do their job.

If you are refering to the UN inspectors, their purpose was to NOT find any weapons of mass destruction, they were covering up for their buddy Saddam.

[doug from upland]

Indeed, Blix was their guy. The purpose of the inspectors was never to find anything --- it was to verify their destruction.