XPost: ny.politics, alt.culture.ny-upstate, nyc.politics 
 XPost: nyc.general 
 From: gamma@nyc.rr.com 
  
 Obwon wrote: 
 > 
 > On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 03:21:27 GMT, mikE  
 > wrote: 
 > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > >Thornton Mellon wrote: 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > >FACT: America had an effective, decade-long blockade clampdown on Iraq. 
 > >FACT: We owned the air over Iraq for over a decade, we had spy planes, 
 F-16's, 
 > >AWACS, spy satellites and more. HOW THE FUCK was Saddam allegedly able 
 > >to manufacture WOMD and have a nuclear program? 
 > > 
 > >FACT: We came up DRY. 
 > > 
 > >FACT: The BU$Hites LIED. 
 > > 
 > >FACT: The BU$Hites get PAID. 
 > > 
 >  You forgot... 
 > 
 >  FACT: Our 12 year air campaign was so effective that Saddam 
 > was reduced to making hydrogen for his artillery ballons in 
 > mobile trailers, which as Bill Shatzer has pointed out, 
 > isn't the best way to go. 
 > 
 >   So, let's see...  Saddam is using mobile trailers to mfg 
 > hydrogen for his artillery balloons and WHAT?  The CIA 
 > doesn't know this?  Isn't there any kind of follow up as in 
 > "target assessment" done after strikes are completed? 
 > 
 >   I mean, if you've reduced the enemy to that level, it 
 > certainly has to means something about what his capabilities 
 > are.  I hardly think that he'd have been producing wmd's if 
 > he couldn't even produce hydrogen gas in a fixed facility 
 > because of the constant bombardments.  How could that fact 
 > have escaped fearless leader and crew? 
  
  
 The CIA really screwed the pooch on this one. 
  
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 "We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would 
 instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab 
 world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter- 
 day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless 
 hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning 
 them to fight in what would be an unwinable urban guerilla 
 war, it could only plunge that part of the world into ever 
 greater instability." 
 -George H. W. Bush in his 1998 book  "A World Transformed" 
  
 "There should be limits to freedom."--George W. Bush 
  
 "I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation 
 building."--George W. Bush, 10/11/2000 
  
  
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