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Asia Times ^ | 2003/10/04 | Jim Lobe

[gitmo]

22 percent thought troops found weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq.

Posted on 10/01/2003 3:37 PM EDT by Pete

KUWAIT CITY (AP)--Kuwaiti security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country, a Kuwaiti newspaper said Wednesday.

The pro-government Al-Siyassah, quoting an unnamed security source, said the suspects had been watched by security since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested "in due time." It didn't say when or how the smugglers entered Kuwait or when they were arrested.

The paper said the smugglers might have had accomplices inside Kuwait. It said Interior Minister Sheik Nawwaf Al Ahmed Al Sabah would hand over the smuggled weapons to an FBI agent at a news conference, but didn't say when.

Government officials couldn't be immediately reached for comment.

Iraqi Interior Minister Nouri Al-Badran met Tuesday with Sheik Nawwaf and discussed cooperation between the two countries in security matters. His visit is the first by an Iraqi interior minister to Kuwait since 1990.

Found here.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is a "dangerously stupid survey" to paraphrase Marvin ("Who me? Biased?) Kalb. Measuring accuracy or truth by the standard of international views is like measuring virtue by the standards in a house of prostitution. Yet that is the methodology in this "survey."

Congressman Billybob

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[gridlock]

Hmm, I'm from Denmark and here in Europe in all countries (only except Poland, I think) the vast majority of the population was AGAINST the war, on February 15. more than 11 Million people were marching on the streets in peaceful protest, something that hasn't been fully covered by most american news channels, just see here for some reports

Worldwide opinion and European opinion are different things. Europe no longer defines World Opinion. There may be 11 Million Danes who think the war was a bad idea, but there are about a Billion Indians who had no problem with it at all, and 1.5 Billion Chinese who couldn't find Iraq on a map, if they were ever allowed to see one.

I will stipulate to the fact that lefty European protesters were against the war. The question is, why should anybody care what they think?

The vast majority of Americans supported the war. The vast majority of Iraqis supported the war. What else do you need to know?

[an amused spectator]

And the more you watch the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News channel, in particular, the more likely it is that your perceptions about the war are wrong, adds the report by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA).

To our leftist friends at PIPA: This statement is only true if it's your attitude that people exploding like ripe watermelons at the base of the World Trade Center is no big deal.

I mean, really - was the attack on Pearl Harbor that big a deal? Couldn't we have just kissed and made up with the Japanese Imperial Navy? It was only 2300 Americans in 1941, after all.

I guess it's PIPA's attitude that Al Qaeda shouldn't be bothered with fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan, but should be able to set up shop in your local mall in downtown USA, where they can conveniently off Grandma, the grandkids & the family dog at their leisure.

[an amused spectator]

more than 11 Million people were marching on the streets in peaceful protest, something that hasn't been fully covered by most american news channels, just see here for some reports: http://peacenowar.net/Iraq/News/Feb%2015%2003--News.htm

History tells us that hundreds of thousands of Germans turned out peacefully and enthusiastically for the Nuremberg Rallies in the 1930s. Are you arguing that if a large number of people turn out peacefully, that makes "the cause", whatever it is that day, right?

Or are you arguing that "the information gatekeepers" will determine for us all after the fact which causes are to be vilified, and which causes are to be sanctified? You know - like the Clinton/Schwarzenegger thing: "the information gatekeepers" have determined that with Clinton, it was just about consensual sex & his private life, whereas with Schwarzenegger it has been determined that it was and is about serial sexual harassment & demeaning of women.

I so love it when "the information gatekeepers" volunteer to do my thinking for me - that way I can get back to the ball game & my beer. ;-)