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Clutch · 07-09-2003, 09:59 AM

Here they are!

Doh! Gone again?

ComestibleVenom · 07-09-2003, 11:02 AM

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Originally posted by Godless Dave
The whole idea that Iraq posed any kind of threat to the United States was ludicrous from the get-go. The real reasons the war was fought had to do with long-term strategic objectives. While I don't have a problem with that per se I wish the administration would have tried to justify the war based on those objectives instead of insulting our intelligence with this WMD/terrorist baloney.

Well said Dave.

Godbert · 07-09-2003, 11:10 PM

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The lack of cooperation says to me that he didn't destroy them all.
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Originally posted by Ronin
What does this lack of cooperation say to you, Loren?

nice one! :notworthy

Bill · 07-10-2003, 10:48 PM

I read an email today from one of the left-wing ranters that claimed that a full analysis of the "two bioterrorism vans" that the US had captured had concluded that said vans were, in fact, exactly what the Iraqis had said that they were: mobile hydrogen production facilities for making weather balloons.

Did anybody happen to catch this revelation in the mainstream press? I sure didn't see it..... (But perhaps I just wasn't looking when it flew by.

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== Bill

Zar · 07-10-2003, 10:55 PM

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Originally posted by Ronin
What does this lack of cooperation say to you, Loren?

That is priceless, isn't it? Just substitute names and its like deja vu from the the U.N. inspections of Iraq. And this is an internal probe, not a forcible inspection by a foreign country.

Bill · 07-10-2003, 11:20 PM

I did some additional searching and in this article I found the closest thing to such a statement:

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The Observer of London quoted British intelligence sources earlier this month as saying it �is increasingly likely that the units were designed to be used for hydrogen production to fill artillery balloons, part of a system originally sold to Saddam by Britain in 1987.�

Not exactly a weather balloon story, but if Britain says that they sold them the two trucks in question.....

== Bill

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Clutch Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canada Posts: 3,751	Here they are! Doh! Gone again?

07-10-2003, 10:48 PM	#44
Bill Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Gatorville, Florida Posts: 4,334	I read an email today from one of the left-wing ranters that claimed that a full analysis of the "two bioterrorism vans" that the US had captured had concluded that said vans were, in fact, exactly what the Iraqis had said that they were: mobile hydrogen production facilities for making weather balloons. Did anybody happen to catch this revelation in the mainstream press? I sure didn't see it..... (But perhaps I just wasn't looking when it flew by. ) == Bill

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