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The Conspiracy According to Dennis Kucinich
The CD theory is the best thing that ever happened to Bush and Cheney as it is taking all the energy away from the real issues.
The real conspiracy is what Dennis Kucinich presented last night. |
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What about chemtrails! he forgot to add chemtrails to the articles. I'm disappointed in Dennis.
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Kucinich is considered a loose cannon by 90% of the Democrats. He is just pandering to his Hard Left Support Base.
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Not a loose cannon, a loose nut.
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What would be the point of impeaching Bush? He only has seven months left in his term anyway. They probably couldn't even hold impeachment hearings in that length of time. Better to just let him go quietly.
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I wonder how Ron Paul feels about this. Might hurt his chance for the preside.... nevermind.
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http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news...second_ch.html "Kucinich said Tuesday that he would like his supporters to back Obama in places where they are not in large enough numbers to be viable. ... snip ... The senator from Illinois issued his own statement of thanks. “I have a lot of respect for Congressman Kucinich, and I’m honored that he has done this because we both believe deeply in the need for fundamental change,” he said."
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news...bush_impe.html "June 9, 2008 ... snip ... On the House floor this evening, the Ohio Democrat proposed impeaching President Bush." ![]() |
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My personal answer would be to set precedent. The Bush Administration has set some horrible precedents and these remain unless challenged. The impeachment proceedings might be able to define what actions Bush has taken are perrogatives of the presidency and which are illegal.
Republicans ought to horrified at the prospect of a future Democratic president using signing statement to effectively nullify legislation they passed. Democrats ought to be horrified at the prospect of a future Republican president blatently violating the First Amendment. And so on. Both sides of the aisle should be anxious to not allow Bush Administration precedents to stand. I'm surprised they aren't. ETA: In my view, the worst aspect of the Bush Administration has been the shredding of the Constitutional concept of "checks and balances". This concept is, IMO, the core genius of the founders. If Congress does not reassert its equal standing of oversight, it will damage our basic governmental structure. While impeachment might be over other details, it is this core concept that would really be on trial. |
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I'd fully support impeachment. Not to get him out of office, but so that's what he is remembered for. I think there should be that kind of record showing he was dishonest and irresponsible in running the country and abusing his powers.
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Remind me again why they impeached Clinton. Republicans make absolutely no sense to me.
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'Bush Lied'? If Only It Were That Simple.
By Fred Hiatt Monday, June 9, 2008; Page A17 There's no question that the administration, and particularly Vice President Cheney, spoke with too much certainty at times and failed to anticipate or prepare the American people for the enormous undertaking in Iraq. But dive into Rockefeller's report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling him about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and you may be surprised by what you find. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...060801687.html The above op-ed does a good debunking of the "Bush lied" accusation leveled by Kucinich and others. |
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Kucinich is crazy. I am not kidding. This ludicrous and baseless impeachment will get passed right after he gets his ban on orbital mind-control rays passed.
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Well, it might not be that simple, but it is still relatively simple.
On March 17, 2003 Bush stated, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." A United Nations Document states, "Up until they were withdrawn from Iraq on 18 March –- the day before armed action began -- United Nations inspectors had found no evidence of the continuation or resumption of programmes of weapons of mass destruction, Hans Blix told the Security Council this morning, as he briefed them for a final time before stepping down at the end of June as head of the inspection team." So if Bush states there is "no doubt" and the UN reports there is "no evidence", then where did Bush and the neo-cons get their intel from? The United Nation had the only large, active human intelligence on the ground in the months preceding the Iraq Attaq. The "evidence" for WMD was nothing more than neo-con propaganda. |
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Impeachment: Just Do It
That's how I feel in a nutshell. Sorry to disappoint. |
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You appear to have no doubt there were no wmd. So please answer a few questions.
Why did Saddam's regime put so many obstacles in the path of UN inspectors, if there were no WMD and no WMD programs? Why did the Iraqi regime threaten the family members of those involved in Iraq's WMD programs with death if that family member cooperated with the UN inspectors? Why did Iraq delay UN inspectors from getting to inspection sites after they were announced? Doesn't the fact that when this happened in earlier years there is clear proof the Iraqi regime was removing WMD related materials from the sites before inspections create a little doubt in your mind as to what was happening in 2003? You quoted Blix to suggest there was "no evidence" but do you know that even as late as March of 2003, UNMOVIC was STILL unsuccessfully seeking interviews with people they thought connected to the WMD work? Do you know that Blix noted "there have been reports, denied from the Iraqi side, that proscribed activities are conducted underground"? Do you know that after the invasion the ISG did indeed discover proscribed underground labs? Do you know that Blix noted "the Iraqi side tried to persuade us that the Al Samoud 2 missiles they have declared fall within the permissible range set by the Security Council"? Do you know they didn't and after the invasion if was discovered that the Iraqis had plans for much longer range missiles in the works? Don't any of those facts leave at least a little doubt in your mind regarding your claim that there was "no WMD"? If there was no evidence of WMD programs in Iraq, why did the ISG conclude that Iraq retained the seed stock, knowledge and equipment needed to quickly restart its biological munitions program? Why did Duelfer tell Congress in 2004: "Iraq would have been able to produce mustard agent in a period of months and nerve agent in less than a year or two"? If there was no doubt, why did Duelfer say "we cannot yet definitively say whether or not WMD materials were transferred out of Iraq before the war. Neither can we definitively answer some questions about possible retained stocks"? Why did David Kay at the time he stepped down from the job of Head of the ISG, say "we know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD programme." Yet you seem to have no doubt? Why did the final ISG report state "there was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation"? Doesn't the fact that Duelfer said he was unable to complete that aspect of the probe because "the declining security situation limited and finally halted this investigation. The results remain inconclusive" suggest a degree of doubt? Why are you acting like you are 100% sure there were no WMD? Where did that viable binary sarin warhead that turned up as an IED come from? And why did the ISG say "the existence of this binary weapon not only raises questions about the number of viable chemical weapons remaining in Iraq and raises the possibility that a larger number of binary, long-lasting chemical weapons still exist"? Shouldn't "a possibility" equate to doubt? If there were no WMD in Iraq, why did the ISG concluded that Iraq systematically destroyed files, computers and facilities thought to be related to WMD just prior to, during and even after the invasion? Tell us what they were hiding to remove the little bit of doubt that I have regarding your assertion. ![]() If there were no WMD in Iraq, why would ISG inspectors and those they sought to interview post invasion regarding WMD have been targeted for assassination (that was the claim of the ISG)? And what was in those trucks that were seen moving to Syria before the war? There are number of well connected individuals, including the #2 General in Saddam's Air Force, Syrian Journalists, the Israelis, and members of the US Armed Forces who entered Iraq looking for WMD after the invasion who say the evidence points towards those truck containing WMD related materials. Isn't this cause for at least a little doubt on your part? And what about the contents of the many Iraqi documents the Coalition discovered after the invasion ... documents that clearly suggest that Iraq did continue efforts to acquire or hide WMD right up until the start of the war? Some of those documents clearly show the Iraqis were buying large quantities of precurser chemicals that were specifically banned under the sanctions. And there are documents talking about construction of and movement (even hiding) of WMD related items. Don't those create any doubt in your mind? Shouldn't you mention these doubts rather than give your readers the impression there is no doubt at all? Is it democrat propaganda if you don't? And finally, because I suspect you are an Obama supporter, Obama and the rest of the democrat leadership now claim the surge failed and that we've either lost the war in Iraq or can't win it. Obama's website says "The goal of the surge was to create space for Iraq's political leaders to reach an agreement to end Iraq's civil war. At great cost, our troops have helped reduce violence in some areas of Iraq, but even those reductions do not get us below the unsustainable levels of violence of mid-2006. Moreover, Iraq's political leaders have made no progress in resolving the political differences at the heart of their civil war." But in light of all that's been noted by the media in recent weeks (including liberal mouthpieces like the Washington Post), it is clear those statements are untrue. So tell me ... is Obama lying to his supporters and the public because he doesn't show any doubt? Oh ... one more question. Did you support Clinton's war in Kosovo? If so, I hate to break it to you. Clinton, his administration and his oh so supportive media told you a lot of things with absolute conviction that were outright false or for which there was considerable doubt. So did they lie to you? |
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I dislike Bush intensely but I just don't see that he's done anything really impeachment worthy. I feel people are too eager to vilify those they disagree with and this just reeks of that sentiment. Impeaching Presidents because you dislike their policy decisions sets a dangerous precedent itself IMHO.
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This is not true. He allowed the UN Weapons inspectors into his country after UN Resolution 1441 was adopted unanimously by the Security Council in November of 2002. As the AP reported on 01/18/2003,
"In almost two months of surprise visits across Iraq, U.N. arms monitors have inspected 13 sites identified by U.S. and British intelligence agencies as major "facilities of concern," and reported no signs of revived weapons building..." In his book "Disarming Iraq", Hans Blix wrote, "In Now. of 2002, a new round of inspections had been initiated to resolve key remaining tasks in the disarming of Iraq. Although the inspection organization was now operating at full strength and Iraq seemed determined to give it prompt access everywhere, the US appeared as determined to replace our inspection force with an invading army." He also wrote, "We went to a great many sites that were given to us by intelligence, and only in three cases did we find anything - and they did not relate to weapons of mass destruction. That shook me a bit, I must say."
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"My fundamental belief is that weapons weren't moved to Syria because ISG found no evidence that they had been produced. And ISG found contrary evidence that they had not been produced. Would it have been better if we had gone to Syria and been able to look? Absolutely. But that was just not in the cards." Maybe Saddam's fictional WMD are hidden on the dark side of the moon. Maybe they are like that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, always elusive but real.
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Sure, Saddam allowed inspectors back in ... but his regime obstructed their work repeatedly from day one.
First of all, Iraq was supposed to submit a declaration "of ALL aspects of its [weapons of mass destruction] programmes". It was supposed to provide information about ANY prohibited weapons activity since UN inspectors left the country in 1998 and resolve outstanding questions that had not been answered by 1998. As Blix stated early on, this was to be a guide for inspectors. He warned that inspections were not supposed to be a game of cat and mouse. That Iraq was supposed to cooperate ... to PARTICIPATE in coming clean. On December 7, Iraq submitted its declaration. But UNMOVIC and IAEA inspectors told the UN Security Council on December 19 that the declaration contained little new information. The games of cat and mouse continued. Let me point out to you that UNSCR 1441 stated that Iraq was currently in material breach of its obligations and that “false statements or omissions in the declarations and failure by Iraq at anytime to comply with, and cooperate fully in the implementation of, this resolution shall constitute a further material breach.” On January 27, 2003 Blix told the UN Security Council that "Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament that was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace." There were only about 110 UN Weapons Inspectors in Iraq at the time - a country the size of France. They were outnumbered by Saddam's intelligence officers 200 to 1. And that army of intelligence officers continued their efforts to disrupt the inspection process and hide anything related to WMD. Despite assurances from Iraq that it would encourage its scientists to submit to private interviews, no such interviews had taken place. Iraq continued to block inspectors from using a U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, a tool that was deemed critical by inspectors. As Powell noted in February, inspectors were accompanied everywhere by Iraqi minders and slandered by Iraqi officials as spies. Through February, the issues of anthrax, VX and long-range missiles remained unresolved. Just prior to the February 14 briefing to the UN SecurityCouncil, Iraqi officials handed over documents on these topics but Blix and ElBaradei subsequently reported that there was little new information in them. On February 24th, even France and Russia had to admit that while Baghdad's cooperation was improving, it was not "yet fully satisfactory." Blix's March 7 report complained that "Iraq, with a highly developed administrative system, should be able to provide more documentary evidence about its proscribed weapons programmes. Only a few new such documents have come to light so far and been handed over since we began inspections." Note that after the invasion, the US discovered a literal mountain of hidden documents ... many related to WMD. Documents which prove Iraq actually had an ongoing WMD program. Some of the documents were so detailed in topics like how to build nuclear weapons that they've been removed from the public eye and are closely guarded. Iraq had to have known these documents existed but said nothing. Likewise, Iraq had to have known about the underground labs that were working with prohibited materials ... labs that only came to light after the invasion. But Iraq said nothing. You'd have to be blind not to see that Iraq was playing a game of cat and mouse. Still. In March, Blix issued a report specifying a number of questions that remained unsolved including that Iraq had not accounted for up to 10,000 liters of anthrax, Scud missile warheads, and drone aircraft that could fly past UN-allowed limits. In the very last stages of the inspection effort as war threatened, the Iraqis finally took inspectors to a site where apparently large amounts of anthrax and chemical munitions had been haphazardly dumped. But it was impossible to tell how much had been disposed of or when it had been buried. Because Iraq claimed to have no records. All of the discoveries by UNMOVIC from November 2002 to March 2003 – empty chemical weapons shells not previously declared, thousands of pages of undeclared documents on uranium enrichment in a private home, biological agents in a refrigerator at a private home, undeclared remotely piloted vehicles with prohibited characteristics, cluster bombs that could be used with chemical or biological agents and many others were clear evidence of Iraqi noncompliance. Of Saddam treating the inspections like a game of cat and mouse. Like he always had. And why are "empty" chemical shells important you say? Well empty is the only way to store these weapon parts. The warheads in question were not designed to store WMD agents for long periods. Separate storage of the agents was a standard practice in Iraq. And that's why accounting for the missing precursor materials was so important. And the documents that were captured after the invasion (not turned over to the UN as they were supposed to have been) show that even in 2002 Iraq purchased additional materials prohibited by the sanctions that could be used to make more chemical weapon agents. Cat and mouse. Even as late as March 17th, Saddam's regime was still putting up obstacles ... preventing interviews and not coming forth with data the ISG later learned they had all the time. Instead, as the ISG later discovered, Iraq was systematically sanitizing files, computers and facilities related to WMD before, during and even after the invasion. That's not the behavior of a regime cooperating ... of one coming clean ... as was demanded by UN 1441. This was not supposed to be a game of cat and mouse and as a result of the games they played, the ISG after a year of post war inspections could not assure anyone that Iraq didn't move WMD to Syria before the war. They played tapes at the UN where Iraqis called other Iraqis to warned them that inspections were to take place the next day and to be sure that everything was cleaned up. We learned after the war that Iraq actually had moles in the UN inspection organization. Plus, most of those visits were to locations that the Iraqis already knew we would look. So why in the world, with all the time we gave them building up to inspections, would they not have moved any incriminating items out of those locations? In fact, General Sada states that he was told by Iraqis in the military that WMD related materials were moved out Iraq to Syria by aircraft in the fall of 2002 before inspections ever began, precisely because Saddam realized he wasn't going to be able to avoid them. Inspectors were coming. Even so ... http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N11/ira...rt_11.11w.html "March 11, 2003, U.N. Investigators Surprise Iraqis Trying to Dismantle Illegal Drone ... snip ... THE WASHINGTON POST -- Iraq tried to dismantle an undeclared new drone aircraft last week after it was discovered by inspectors from the United Nations, according to U.N. and U.S. officials. ... snip ... With a wingspan of almost 25 feet, the RPV could have a range far in excess of the 150 kilometers (93 miles) allowed by U.N. regulations." And in fact, it turns out the drone was actually tested to a range of over 310 miles. That's a clear violation of the sanctions and a clear attempt by Iraq to hide that violation from inspectors. And furthermore, Blix failed to mention this to the UN Security Council ... an effort on his part to downplay, as he did again and again, Iraq's non-compliance. When the missiles and extra illegally imported engines were discovered by UN inspectors (as opposed to Iraq coming clean about their existence), Iraq's regime argued that they did not violate the limits set by the UN and they had no plans to increase there range. The ISG eventually concluded that they lied about BOTH. The missiles as configured did indeed violate the limits and they were in fact working on plans to build much longer range ones. And it wasn't until March that the regime agreed to start destroying these missiles. By then it was simply too late. The US had lost patience with Iraq's cat and mouse games. Irrelevant. Iraq started a war of aggression in 1991 and lost it. In the cease fire ending the fighting, Iraq agreed to destroy everything connected to WMD and long range delivery system, including all documentation and research facilities. They violated that agreement and thus the FIRST war was not over. THAT alone gave us the right to invade the country and depose the regime. Here's some of what Scott Ritter told Congress in September of 1998 when he left the job after Iraq threw inspectors out:
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This is not true as the previous quotes by Hans Blix show. You are now merely repeating neo-con talking points.
Originally Posted by First of all, Iraq was supposed to submit a declaration "of ALL aspects of its [weapons of mass destruction
"On 7 December 2002, Iraq submitted a declaration of some 12,000 pages in response to paragraph 3 of resolution 1441 (2002) and within the time stipulated by the Security Council. In the fields of missiles and biotechnology, the declaration contains a good deal of new material and information covering the period from 1998 and onward. This is welcome."
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What evidence do you have that Saddam was producing and stockpiling WMD in 2002 and 2003? This was the reason why invaded. Fortunately, this issue has already been investigated. The Robb-Silberman Report looked at these issues in detail. Here are some of their conclusions: On Nuclear Weapons: "Based on its post-war investigations, the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) concluded--contrary to the Intelligence Community's pre-war assessments--that Iraq had not tried to reconstitute a capability to produce nuclear weapons after 1991." "The Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had not tried to reconstitute a capability to produce nuclear weapons after 1991. It concluded that Iraq's efforts to develop gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment ended in 1991, as did Iraq's work on other uranium enrichment programs, which Iraq had explored prior to the Gulf War. The ISG also found no evidence that Iraq had taken steps to advance its pre-1991 work in nuclear weapons design and development." "The Iraq Survey Group also found no evidence that Iraq sought uranium from abroad after 1991. With respect to the reports that Iraq sought uranium from Niger, ISG interviews with Ja'far Diya Ja'far, the head of Iraq's pre-1991 enrichment programs, indicated that Iraq had only two contacts with the Nigerien government after 1998--neither of which was related to uranium. On Biological Weapons: "Contrary to the Intelligence Community's pre-war assessments, the ISG's post-war investigations concluded that Iraq had unilaterally destroyed its biological weapons stocks and probably destroyed its remaining holdings of bulk BW agent in 1991 and 1992. Moreover, the ISG concluded that Iraq had conducted no research on BW agents since that time, although Iraq had retained some dual-use equipment and intellectual capital. The ISG found no evidence of a mobile BW program." "The Iraq Survey Group found that the Intelligence Community's pre-war assessments about Iraq's BW program were almost entirely wrong. The ISG concluded that "Iraq appears to have destroyed its undeclared stocks of BW weapons and probably destroyed remaining holdings of bulk BW agent" shortly after the Gulf War[/b]." On Chemical Weapons: "After the war, the ISG concluded--contrary to the Intelligence Community's pre-war assessments--that Iraq had unilaterally destroyed its undeclared CW stockpile in 1991 and that there were no credible indications that Baghdad had resumed production of CW thereafter." "Still, given that, of the dozens of CW munitions that the ISG discovered, all had been manufactured before 1991, the Intelligence Community's 2002 assessments that Iraq had restarted its CW program turned out to have been seriously off the mark." On Delivery Systems: "Following its exhaustive investigation in Iraq, the Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had indeed been developing small UAVs, but found no evidence that the UAVs had been designed to deliver biological agent. Instead, the ISG concluded that Iraq had been developing and had flight tested a small, autonomous UAV intended for use as a reconnaissance platform, and had developed a prototype for another small UAV for use in electronic warfare missions." "The Iraq Survey Group concluded that, although Iraq had pursued UAVs as BW delivery systems in the past, Iraq's pre-Operation Iraqi Freedom program to develop small, autonomous-flight UAVs had actually been intended to fulfill reconnaissance and airborne electronic warfare missions. The ISG found no evidence suggesting that Iraq had, at the time of the war, any intent to use UAVs as BW or CW delivery systems."
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ROTFLOL! It was Hans Blix who told the UN security council, on January 27 (http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/27/spr...lix/index.html ), more than 2 months into that last round of inspections, that "Unlike South Africa, which decided on its own to eliminate its nuclear weapons and welcomed the inspection as a means of creating confidence in its disarmament, Iraq appears not to have come to a genuine acceptance, not even today, of the disarmament that was demanded of it and which it needs to carry out to win the confidence of the world and to live in peace." He said that because Iraq was not fully cooperating with inspectors or the intent of the inspection process. The truth is that it was still hiding materials that it had to have known it had, preventing interviews with people who could have led us to those materials and perhaps even more incriminating stuff, intimidating inspectors, and playing cat and mouse games with an intent to deceive the world.
As Blix pointed out in that January 27 speech, Resolution 1441 "emphatically reaffirmed the demand on Iraq to cooperate. It required this cooperation to be immediate, unconditional and active." And as that speech showed, as of January 27 it had not been any of those three. ROTFLOL! You very selectively quoted a couple sentences from Blix's January 27th speech. But here's the rest of what that section of the speech said:
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I quoted Blix complaining several weeks later in March, a full 2 months after Iraq was supposed to have provided all information on it's WMD programs that "Iraq, with a highly developed administrative system, should be able to provide more documentary evidence about its proscribed weapons programmes. Only a few new such documents have come to light so far and been handed over since we began inspections." That's not a neo-con talking point. That's a direct quote of Blix to the UN Security Council just 12 days before we invaded showing his unhappiness with their cooperation. And it is a fact that the ISG, after the invasion, found numerous WMD related documents that Iraq's regime must have known about because they were deliberately hidden by that regime, that it should have declared back on December 7th, and that it did not declare at any time prior to the invasion. That is not the false picture that you are trying to paint for our readers due to your blind hatred of Bush and "neocons" (whatever those are). If they were resolved, then why did Hans Blix make an issue of them? Why did Scott Ritter when he quit in 1998 say that those were issues and that Iraq was still a serious threat? But clearly, based on both Ritter's assessment and the ISG's post-war assessment, Iraq retained the ability to re-constitute much of its WMD program in short order ... largely because Iraq retained prohibited documents, equipment and materials ... as well as the desire to do so. And in the post 9/11 environment, given the friendliness that Saddam had shown terrorists and their activities including the 9/11 attacks, that was not something we could continue to simply ignore. It was too much a risk to allow Iraq to continue violating the agreements it had signed regarding WMD. It was too much a risk to let Iraq continue to support terrorists. That was not the only reason. Not even the major reason. Perhaps you should go back and re-read (assuming you even bothered to read it the first time) Bush's State Of The Union speech in January of 2003 where he laid out the case why Iraq was a problem that we needed to do something about to the public. But I'm not holding my breath that you will. Sorry, but an audio tape discovered after the invasion (http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1503 ) has Saddam and his top WMD advisors in a meeting held sometime after 2001 (because the year 2001 is mentioned in the past tense on the tape) "discussing a progress report on a laser enrichment system for uranium, one of the more advanced methods to make a nuclear bomb." And "the names of the two Iraqi individuals in charge of Saddam’s uranium enrichment were not previously known either to the UN weapons inspectors or to the intelligence community." Now this tape was only translated in 2006, after the ISG drew it's conclusions so obviously the ISG's conclusion that your source noted was wrong. Iraq was clearly still continuing with work that would lead to the development of a nuclear weapon. And it's also worth mentioning that in the documents discovered (which again I should note Iraq was supposed to have declared to Blix and turned over but did not) they found detailed plans for building a nuclear weapon once the nuclear material was available. Those documents are so detailed that the government has withdrawn those documents from public view. Do you see why those 35,000 boxes of tapes and documents (most of which are still untranslated) are so important and why it's so foolish (and should I add dangerous) to simply ignore them as you are doing? Probably? Tell me, how could they have destroyed their holdings of BW agents in 1991 and 1992 when in 1995, Hussein Kamel, Saddam's son-in-law and the man who was in charge of Iraqs WMD program, defected to Jordan and Iraq was forced to admit that it had concealed a huge biological weapons program? Don't you remember the chicken farm? Are you unaware that in one of the captured tapes your side of this debate simply chooses to ignore, Saddam and his senior aides discuss the fact that UN inspectors in late April or May of 1995 had uncovered evidence of Iraq's Biological Weapons program—a program the existence of which Iraq had previously denied. At one point, Kamel can be heard on the tape, speaking openly about hiding information from the UN. "We did not reveal all that we have," Kamel says in the meeting "not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct." Yet, here you are willing to simply trust them now as well as the effectiveness of the current inspectors. ![]() You are apparently unaware (http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1999/08/990817-in1.htm ) that in September of 1997, according to Richard Butler, "during a routine inspection at what Iraq had described as a food-testing lab, the chief of our biological team glimpsed two Iraqi officials trying to run out the back door. She seized a briefcase from one, inside were biological test equipment and documents linking the headquarters of the Iraqi Special Security Organization to what appeared to be a biological weapons program. After the Iraqi generals in charge dodged my requests to explain these materials, I ordered a no-notice inspection of the Special Security headquarters building to be led by Scott Ritter, the head of our concealment staff. A small convoy of vehicles set off toward this destination. But about a half mile from the building, the convoy was stopped by armed Iraqi guards. I telephoned Aziz, telling him to allow my people to move forward. He refused, claiming that the building in question was a "presidential site" and was therefore off-limits. It was an entirely new concept to deem these sites sanctuaries. Nothing-not even "sensitive sites"-was off-limits according to the deal Saddam had signed to put an end to the Gulf War. Besides, I pointed out, the U2 aerial picture I had on my desk in preparation for our conversation showed that the presidential palace was a mile down the road from where our motorcade had been stopped. We were still denied access. Fearing for its safety, I withdrew our team." Yet you would have us believe that Iraq stopped it's biological weapons programs in 1991 or 1992. ![]() You need to understand that the discussions on the tapes that were discovered AFTER the invasion clearly indicate that Saddam and his associates thought the 1991 war was still ongoing even in the late 1990s. They can be heard on these tapes discussing the possibility of using terrorists as surrogates to deliver biological and chemical munitions to the US. Of course, they deny on the tape that Iraq would do it but then they knew the tapes were running, didn't they. As former UN weapons inspector Bill Tierney concluded, "Listening to the tapes, you are left with one of two choices: you either believe Saddam was a self-important (though largely internationally impotent) iron-fisted ruler who posed no threat to the US, for all his bluster to the contrary; or else you believe him to be precisely the man he’s always been: a murderous tyrant who would use whatever means at his disposal—including alliances of convenience—to attack the US and its interests." Now I know which you'd choose but the President of the United States had to be more prudent and take no chances. And again, they've found documents deliberately hidden by the Iraqis and not declared during the latest inspections, that are as recent as 2002 and which prove Iraq was violating the sanctions and buying specifically banned materials from which chemical agents could be manufactured. Now you can stick your head in the ground where those documents are concerned but that won't make them go away. It will only make you look ridiculous and blinded by your obviously partisan hatred of Bush. The truth is that because of the willful destruction of files, computer and facilities thought to be related to WMD before, during and even after the 2003 invasion of Iraq (a fact the ISG admits occurred), the ISG cannot be confident of anything with regards to what Iraq's WMD status was prior to the war. But make no mistake. The Iraqis hid those documents and selected pieces of equipment (like biological seed materials) for a reason. The Iraqis destroyed those files, computers and facilities for a reason. The truck convoys seen traveling to Syria before the war were doing so for a reason. The threats against anyone who would speak to the ISG occurred for a reason. And NONE of these actions on the part of Iraq are consistent with your repeated claim that Iraq cooperated with the inspectors in late 2002 and early 2003. That binary sarin shell that magically turned up as an IED was a still viable munition. Something that in the hands of skilled terrorists who knew what they had could have killed thousands. And it's a fact that Iraq was purchasing large quantities of materials that were specifically banned because they could be used to produce chemical agents like nerve gas. It's also a fact that Iraq had demonstrated previously a preference for loading chemical munitions with the agent just before use. So the fact that no recently manufactured munitions were found with agent in them is rather moot. The fact is those bunkers under the Euphrates river were built in 2002 FOR A PURPOSE. And there is good reason to suspect that purpose had something to do with WMD that were NOT manufactured before 1991. You can stick your head in the ground only so long before you begin to look gullible, naive and blind to anything but hatred of Bush. By the way, regarding the ISG's search for chemical munitions, do you know that the ISG fully evaluated less than one quarter of one percent of the over 10,000 weapons caches throughout Iraq, and visited fewer than ten ammunition depots identified prior to OIF as suspect CW sites? And they used two criteria for identifying the sites ... the presence of a nearby water truck and a artillery unit ... that Saddam had to have known they'd look for. Why, if he were trying to hide this stuff, would he put it exactly where he figured the UN would look? You see why claiming with 100 percent certainty that Iraq had no WMD is silly? Yet the ISG quotes the head of the UAV program saying that he expected that the UAV program was to be used to deliver WMD. And it is incontrovertible that Iraq violated the agreement it signed not to research, develop, test or deploy UAVs beyond a certain range. The UAVs that Iraq was discovered to be actively working on in 2003 had already been tested to well beyond that range. In fact, they'd been tested out to a range of 500 km — 350 km beyond the UN-permissible limit. In short, they lied about that to the UN in their declaration. So what else did they lie about? Well for one thing, According to the ISG, they found “written evidence of a contractual negotiation” between North Korea and Iraq for the purchase of 1,300 km-range No Dong missiles. Iraqi documents indicate that Baghdad made a $10 million down payment in late 2002 for a single No Dong missile but North Korea failed to deliver the missile allegedly “because they were being watched too closely by the Bush Administration” and also apparently did not refund Iraq its $10 million. The ISG also uncovered Iraqi plans or designs for three long-range ballistic missiles with ranges from 400 to 1,000 km and for a 1,000 km- range cruise missile, although none of these systems progressed to production and only one reportedly passed the design phase. So don't try to claim that Iraq wasn't trying to seriously violate its agreement not to research, develop, test or stockpile long range delivery systems. They clearly did. And if we'd not invaded Iraq in 2003, they might by now be testing or even fielding those systems. And I'd bet you they'd be tipped with WMD. To believe anything else would be supremely naive given Saddam's history. Does that mean that Iraq couldn't have quickly adapted them to that use if they'd been so ordered? No. Does that mean that Saddam had given up his WMD ambitions or desire to have the capability to strike his distant enemies with WMD? No. Furthermore, I seem to recall that the head of the UAV program is quoted somewhere in the ISG report saying that he thought the UAVs were ultimately for that purpose ... whether Saddam said they were or not in his orders to build the things. The agreement specifically forbade Iraq from retaining WMD related documents or researching WMD and long range delivery systems. And as I've demonstrated, there is plenty of evidence to prove they did both after 1991 and even into 2002, and any claim by you that they didn't will only make you look foolish. That is absolutely false. Either you haven't bothered to try and learn anything about the contents of those 35000 boxes or you are trying to deceive our readers. So will you admit to being ill informed or a liar? |
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Holy mega long posts Batman!
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Actually, it would do nothing of the sort. The supreme court is where battles regarding the power of congress vs the Executive are properly fought - and have, in fact, already been fought a number of times during this administration.
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Hans Blix said that in January of 2003 just as the inspection process was getting warmed up. Hans Blix initially believed somewhat in the claims made by the Bush Administration and was giving them the benefit of the doubt. This would change as he later discovered that there was no real evidence regarding WMD programs in Iraq. In his book, "Disarming Iraq" Hans Blix wrote,
"In Now. of 2002, a new round of inspections had been initiated to resolve key remaining tasks in the disarming of Iraq. Although the inspection organization was now operating at full strength and Iraq seemed determined to give it prompt access everywhere, the US appeared as determined to replace our inspection force with an invading army." "We went to a great many sites that were given to us by intelligence, and only in three cases did we find anything - and they did not relate to weapons of mass destruction. That shook me a bit, I must say." "The path of inspection had been blocked by the US, the UK and Spain." Hans Blix's opinion would change as he realized that the "evidence" for WMD was nothing but hype.
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"...since 1998 Iraq has been fundamentally disarmed: 90-95% of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability has been verifiably eliminated. This includes all of the factories used to produce chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and long-range ballistic missiles..." "I believe the primary problem at this point is one of accounting. Iraq has destroyed 90-95% of its WMD. Okay. We have to remember that this missing 5-10% doesn't necessarily constitute a threat. It doesn't even constitute a weapons program. It constitutes bits and pieces of a weapons program which in totality doesn't amount to much...just because we can't account for it doesn't mean that Iraq retains it. There is no evidence Iraq retains these materials." Iraq could potentially attempt to reconstitute some sort of WMD program but that could be easily detectable. Iraq was not friendly with terrorists. He actually fought them. In the 1980's we supported him against a radical fundamentalist version of Islam that was emerging from Iran. Iraq used WMD during the 1980's against the Iranians. We didn't seem to lose any lose any sleep over it then. So in the 1980's when he actually had WMD, what terrorist group did he give them to?
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The Bush Administration also made its case for war in a letter to the Security Council delivered by UN Ambassador John Negroponte. This letter contains no mention of regime change, democracy, liberation or any other neo-con propaganda slogan. The legal case for war was that Iraq was in material breach of its disarmament obligations and this gave us permission to use military force against the Iraqi regime.
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"When I left Iraq in 1998, when the UN inspection program ended, the infrastructure and facilities had been 100% eliminated. There's no debate about that. All of their instruments and facilities had been destroyed. The production equipment had been hunted down and destroyed. And we had in place means to monitor-both from the vehicles and from the air-the gamma rays that accompany attempts to enrich uranium or plutonium. We neve found anything. We can say unequivocally that the industrial infrastructure needed by Iraq to produce nuclear weapons had been eliminated." "There is concern, then, that the Iraqis might intend in the long run to re-establish or reconstitute a nuclear weapons programme. But this concern must be tempered by reality. That is not something that could happen overnight. For Iraq to reacquire nuclear weapons capability, they would have to build enrichment and weaponization capabilities that would cost tens of billions of dollars. Nuclear weapons cannot be created in a basement or cave. They require modern industrial infrastructures that in turn require massive amounts of electricity and highly controlled technologies not readily available on the open market...None of this can be done on the cheap. It’s very expensive, and readily detectable." So if Iraq did intend to build a nuclear weapons program this would be obvious to the international community. As well, with the inspectors in Iraq, his production capabilities could be destroyed as they were in 1990's. An audio tape hardly constitutes a threat to the United States.
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"In September 1997 Diane Seaman, biologist and investigator extraordinaire, did a no-notice inspection of the Iraqi national standards laboratory, where they do food testing. She went in the back way, and ran into two gentlemen with briefcases coming down the stairs. They panicked when they saw her, and tried to run away. She chased them down, grabbed them, and seized the briefcases. She handed the briefcases to one of her subordinates, told him to get it out of there, then held off the Iraqis while the guy escaped with the briefcases...We were thinking we’d hit a home run. We rapidly began to translate - and I mean rapidly - and saw things like ‘botulinum toxin reagent test kits’, and ‘clostridium perfingen reagent test kits.’ Both of these are agents developed by Iraq for weapons. We organised a meeting with the Iraqis, telling them we wanted to talk about this. The Iraqis refused, saying it had nothing to do with our work...But then we started a detailed translation of the document and found it wasn’t about biological weapons at all, but about testing food: these are reports of the samples that people take of every piece of clothing, every bed linen, every piece of food, anything that comes into contact with the president and his inner circle. They have botulinum toxin reagent because botulinum toxin is a food poisoning. Same with the clostridium perfingen. The whole document, the ‘special biological activity’, was about presidential security. Truth matters little to how the story continues to be spun. This incident is still cited on national television and radio as an example of Iraq’s continued work in biological weapons."
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"...A 10 percent dud rate among artillery shells isn't unheard of - and even greater percentages can occur. So there's a good possibility that at least 15 of these sarin artillery shells failed and lie forgotten in the Iraq desert, waiting to be picked up by any unsuspecting insurgent looking for raw material from which to construct an IED." David Kay stated this regarding the sarin shell, “I think all of us have known that because of the sheer volume of artillery [containing agents like sarin that were in the Iraqi arsenal prior to the Gulf War] ... that there were likely to be some of these still around Iraq, But [the discovery] doesn't speak to the issue of whether weapons of mass destruction were still being produced in Iraq in the mid-1990s.”
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Blix said at that time that all the things that South Africa did to come clean were essential if Iraq was to come clean. Even as late as March, 2 weeks before the invasion, Blix was still complaining that Iraq was withholding data and documents ... that it wasn't acting like South Africa had. I provided the quotes. The truth is that Iraq had been given plenty of time and opportunity to comply ... and to accept that it needed to disarm. And had failed on both counts. Indeed, after the invasion the ISG found clear evidence that Iraq was still trying to hide the scope and nature of its WMD work. They found documents, not translated until after the final ISG report (and over 90 percent of those documents are still untranslated), that clearly show Iraq was still pursuing WMD. Purchasing chemicals that were specifically prohibited under the sanctions because they could be used to make chemical agents. Trying to buy a long range missile from North Korea, with a range far in excess of the allowed limits. Sorry, but you are spinning.
It doesn't matter what Blix claims in his book ... the facts are the facts. We found clear evidence after the invasion that the UN inspection team was compromised. We found clear evidence that Iraq had been deliberating sanitizing files, computer and facilities thought related to WMD just before, during and even after the invasion. We found clear evidence that Iraq was still purchasing items used in the production of chemical munitions and working on long range delivery systems. We found clear evidence that Iraq had retained all the documents needed to restart their WMD programs, including plans on how to build a nuclear weapon. In short, we found clear evidence that Iraq wasn't cooperating with it's disarmament as was demanded of it by the UN. And to this day you STILL cannot tell us the contents of those trucks that went to Syria right before the war. You STILL cannot tell us the contents of the bunkers that were built in 2002 under a river, that locals said contained WMD, and the CIA found had been looted by the time they got around to checking them out in 2006. You can't tell us these things because even after the invasion and fall of the Saddam, the people in Iraq who participated in those things have not come clean. They are still hiding something ... AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. FALSE. We went to war to make sure that Iraq was abiding by the agreement it made to end the first Gulf War. And that agreement specifically forbade Iraq from retaining ANY documents related to WMD and long range weapon systems. We went to war for more than those reasons ... for a list of reasons outlined by Bush in his January of 2003 State of the Union Address. Too bad you apparently didn't listen to it. And how did Ritter know this? The last time he held a security clearance was in 1998 when he left the job saying that Iraq still had all those things he now claimed it destroyed by 1998. In September of 1998 he told the US Senate this:
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This has to be an outright lie. Iraq gave safe haven to several notorious terrorists, including one of the 1993 WTC bombers. That man not only got sanctuary, he got a home and job courtesy of the Iraqi government. And you'd have to have your head in the ground not to know that Saddam was funding the families of homicide bombers in Israel to the tune of $25,000 each. And we know he supported terrorists in the Phillipines. His Fedayeen were being trained to act like terrorists. We found suicide vest bomb making factories. We found camps where terrorists clearly trained. We saw them fight like terrorists during the invasion. We found friendly communications between his regime and al-Qaeda ... and the Taliban ... AFTER 9/11. This claim is one of the biggest lies promoted by the anti-war side in this debate. I suggest you reread UN 1441. It mentions documents, long range weapon systems, terrorism, and the ceasefire obligations. It further stated that "false statements or omissions in the declarations submitted by Iraq pursuant to this resolution and failure by Iraq at any time to comply with, and cooperate fully in the implementation of, this resolution shall constitute a further material breach of Iraq’s obligation." So their behavior during the latest round of inspections was clearly a further material breach of their obligations. So you can add that to the list. Folks, just contrast that with the statements Ritter made to the Senate in 1998 and New Republic. It's like night and day. It's like two different people. Of course, by 2002, Ritter was busy "waging peace". Guess that's why he didn't want to discuss the children's prison he saw back in 1998, where children - toddlers up to pre-adolescents - whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein - were kept in conditions Ritter himself described as "horrific" and "horrible". But ask yourself, what motivated Ritter's sudden change of heart at a time when he had NO access to classified material and intelligence? My my ... how Ritter's version changed from 1998 ... when he left the inspection team and spoke to the Senate, and wrote an article (under no duress, I might add) to the New Republic ... to 2002 ... when he was making a movie using Saddam's money. ![]() ![]() Not the point. And it didn't kill anyone because whoever used it either didn't know what it was or didn't know how to use it's contents. The ISG, however, said it contained about 4 to 5 liters of agent. And experts from around the world have indicated that's enough agent to kill many thousands if properly dispersed. The point is that shell existed despite the fact that Saddam's regime initially claimed they'd never even researched binary weapons, then when that lie was caught claimed they'd never tested them, then when that lie was caught claimed ALL the shells they ever produced had been destroyed. Odd how you imagine lies by the Bush adminstration but can't even acknowledge or accept the ones staring you in the face. This is utter nonsense and spin. There was no reason for Iraqi insurgents to pick up a "dud" shell off the ground in an Iraqi desert when (according to your own side in this debate) Iraqi ammunition dumps containing TENS OF MILLIONS of non-"dud" shells were totally unguarded during that period of time. Furthermore, the ISG said nothing about this shell being a "dud". I suggest you go read some of the documents they found in Iraq and finally got translated in 2004-2006. But I know you won't. ![]() |
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