Loren Pechtel

Another idea to throw out:

Consider:
1) Saddam is still missing.
2) The WMD are missing.
3) There's evidence of rush destruction just before the war.

Possibility:
He *SOLD* the stuff to somebody else to get more money for going into hiding with.

Jat

Didn't he manage to loot around a $1 billion from their banks before he "left"?

Ion

We are dealing now with gossip on speculations.

In contrast to this, the U.N. approach is of consistent facts:

.) the U.N. inspections were in progress,

.) there was no evidence so far for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq warranting a war against Iraq according to the U.N. Security Council,

.) the U.N. inspections needed a few more months and funds to proclaim conclusions,

.) Bush cut short the U.N. inspections by declaring war on Iraq and killing Iraqis;

.) Bush doesn't find Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, either.

John Hancock

This WMD search is a pile of crap. Prior to the invasion of Iraq I supplied a link to a pdf of Kamel's full debriefing. I'll not look that up again nor will I qoute page 13 of this document. Those that wanted this war would not look at evidence then and some still like the looks of their colon's inter walls. Here try to understand this time. Powell did not testify to the full extent of our knowledge when speaking before the UN.

Read :

FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY: Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were DestroyedFAIR
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting 112 W. 27th Street New York, NY 10001
MEDIA ADVISORY:
Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed
Bombshell revelation from a defector cited by White House and press February 27, 2003 On February 24, Newsweek broke what may be the biggest story of the Iraq crisis. In a revelation that "raises questions about whether the WMD [weapons of mass destruction] stockpiles attributed to Iraq still exist," the magazine's issue dated March 3 reported that the Iraqi weapons chief who defected from the regime in 1995 told U.N. inspectors that Iraq had destroyed its entire stockpile of chemical and biological weapons and banned missiles, as Iraq claims. Until now, Gen. Hussein Kamel, who was killed shortly after returning to Iraq in 1996, was best known for his role in exposing Iraq's deceptions about how far its pre-Gulf War biological weapons programs had advanced. But Newsweek's John Barry-- who has covered Iraqi weapons inspections for more than a decade-- obtained the transcript of Kamel's 1995 debriefing by officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the U.N. inspections team known as UNSCOM. Inspectors were told "that after the Gulf War, Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them," Barry wrote.

All that remained ere "hidden blueprints, computer disks, microfiches" and production molds. The weapons were destroyed secretly, in order to hide their existence from inspectors, in the hopes of someday resuming production after inspections had finished. The CIA and MI6 were told the same story, Barry
reported, and "a military aide who defected with Kamel... backed Kamel's assertions about the destruction of WMD stocks."

Lamma

I've never called those who fought in your war less then honorable. I'm offended by this:
I think you don't know much about reality. This perplexing view that Iraq was some sort of progressive nation is utter hogwash.
I'm so sick of spineless leftists who cry that "it can't be done"! Methinks you also don't know anything about the US.

Martin Buber :banghead:

Optional

What evidence, exactly?

-me

Ion

From my experience, I bet that Pechtel is now cranking up the search engine of the Internet to full capacity, and will 'produce' a wannabe Bush-like 'evidence' that cannot pass U.N..

Zar

A war of all against all.

Gurdur

Another idea to throw out:

Consider:
1) Saddam is still missing.
2) The WMD's are still missing.
3) There's no evidence of rush destruction just before the war.

Possibility:
He has them in his pocket.

Answerer

Yeah, and Bush is still going to win the coming election. Doesn't that sounds something odd about the majority of the American critizens.