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Today, it appears that Blix have found that Saddam Hussein has broken some UN law, and now Bush has a good reson for attacking.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/ [SPACE] meast/01/16/sproject.irq.wrap/
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It is enevitable that the US will attack eventually, just look at the troop movements around the area, and that we will too, for worse in my opinion. America doesn't need our help and we are just making ourselves targets for terrorists by helping the US.
Today, it appears that Blix have found that Saddam Hussein has broken some UN law, and now Bush has a good reson for attacking.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/ [SPACE] meast/01/16/sproject.irq.wrap/
(delete space)
It is enevitable that the US will attack eventually, just look at the troop movements around the area, and that we will too, for worse in my opinion. America doesn't need our help and we are just making ourselves targets for terrorists by helping the US.
GMTV did a vote on this subject and 80% of people said we shouldn't go to war!!
> Actually why don't we, the people, vote as to if we go to war or not?
Erm, I think we already did when we elected a Labour Government on the understanding that they'd be responsible for making these kinds of decisions for us.
Next time vote Green Party.
Assuming there'll be a next time :)
I found CNNs coverage of this whole episode quite one sided. Iraq have appeared to be very helpful in complying with UN demands. For a start, when asked to explain their nuclear, biological and chemical weapons programmes, Iraq sent them a 6000 page report on the 7th December.
Reading at one page a minute for 8 hours a day it would only take about 2 weeks to wade through all of that. Not to mention translating it from the original Arabic.
Reckon anyone actually bothered to read it all, though?
The one thing I don't quite understand is the show of force, over 200,000 men and women have now been deployed in the Gulf arena. If Saddam Hussein is such a bad guy, why not just drop a bomb on him instead?
*Dials 0800-SADDAM*
"Hello?"
"Hi, is that Saddam?"
"Yes."
*Turns to USAF General*
"Yes, he's at home"
> I found CNNs coverage of this whole episode quite one sided. Iraq
> have appeared to be very helpful in complying with UN demands. For a
> start, when asked to explain their nuclear, biological and chemical
> weapons programmes, Iraq sent them a 6000 page report on the 7th
> December.
Which would be why, live from Belgium this afternoon, Hans Blix has stated that Iraq MUST be more helpful and proactive towards the inspectors, and why, already, the UN team has found ilegally smuggled components that may have possible WMD uses, that were not declared in that document, and also why UN inspectors visited two scientists homes and removed material and documents - two places not in the Iraqi list....
> Reading at one page a minute for 8 hours a day it would only take
> about 2 weeks to wade through all of that. Not to mention translating
> it from the original Arabic.
The document was translated for them - several copies of it were on CD ROM and it was done that way for the UN. When you consider that the search engine google can translate foreign web pages reasonably accurate, licensed high end software can certainly do Arabic.
> The one thing I don't quite understand is the show of force, over
> 200,000 men and women have now been deployed in the Gulf arena. If
> Saddam Hussein is such a bad guy, why not just drop a bomb on him
> instead?
Because his personal residences have shelters for him. Sure, we could do that, but you would need a ground penetratiing nuke to do so, which would take him and much of the population center he has located in, with him. Plus Saddam is constantly on the move, and neer stays in one place more than one day or night.
~~Belldandy~~
doesn't look good, the guy on telly said "this is what Blair has been waiting for". oh dear...
> when is saddam going to launch a womd at us.
a womd?
> dunno if you've all seen this, but the inspectors have now found some
> empty war heads.
> doesn't look good, the guy on telly said "this is what Blair has
> been waiting for". oh dear...
My guess is that on the 10 o'clock news they'll say that Saddam emptied the warheads into a North London flat.