Really? now lets lok at the full report by Richard Butler: Saddam was still the one responsible for the Inspectors leaving because of his failure to co-operate.
Catch up to modern times my friend. Nothing you are saying would convince anyone except a Rush Limbaugh fan.
Then explain how to highlight the pertinant points that you fail to even look at, unless lead by the nose to see.
But the points you screamed out did not acquit you, after I called you out for repeating a lie in Post 40. Highlighting a lame rebuttal in bold red is likely to compound your embarrassment. I've learned that only admitting that I have been mistaken, and welcoming clearer understanding preserves my dignity when I'm proven wrong.
Yea, those homocide US Navy soldiers going around with bombs wrapped around their stomachs sure have taken a toll on Iraq.....Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
That's why I use the term "left-wing radical" for some of these radical leftists. They can be smacked up and down the head with proof and facts; their radical attitudes keep them from admitting the truth.
Cazzo: "...proof and facts..." What specific proof and facts justifying the destruction of Iraq have been ignored here?
No, the death squads have, the ones that come with the US entry into any country. I doubt anyone takes kindly to assassins murdering their family wholesale. Or did you think Saddam was a better leader?
The invasion of Iraq was a political, not practical invasion, and had nothing to do whatsoever with WMD. Even if, Saddam had intended to use the yellowcake against US interests..how would he have delivered ? Don't you have sanctions on his trade and medicine ?., along with a extremely large defence budget ?
Exactly, it had everything to do with UNSCR 687 and UNSCR 1441. Remember the U.N. Oil Voucher Scandal, Saddam was buying off U.N. officials with kick backs. He was still spending more on himself, and his defence budget than he was on the people. Saddam had played games with UNSCR 687 for 12 years, he was suppose to have already disposed of the Yellow Cake, and all nuclear related materials, he never provided the evidence or factual proof that he had done so for either his Nuclear, or Biological programs, he still was buying missile technology. Saddam didn't ever provide any proof beyond his word that all of the prohibited programs had been removed. He still had the Yellow Cake. He still had the Scientist. He screwed with the inspection regime for 12 years, and he ran out of time, Saddam made those chouses, Saddam failed to live up to his Cease Fire Treaty obligations, Saddam spent 12 years fighting the Inspectors, Saddam intentions were to resume all of his pet projects after the U.N. pulled out if Iraq.
1997 . UNSCOM's official chronology, 1991 1992 Oil Voucher Scandal? 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 . 1998 1999
We all know that, none of those are a good reason to make Iraq part of the War on Terror. None of those make Iraq an immanent threat.
But they are good reasons to enforce UNSCR 687, and Iraq was a threat, just because you think it wasn't imminent doesn't have a thing to do with it, and Saddam did nothing to disprove that he was a threat. 10+ years of playing game, Saddam signed UNSCR 687 which called for complete and total co-operation and the chronology show that he never complied with spirt or the letter of UNSCR 687. Iraq only became a part of the war on terror after the terrorist came to Iraq.
The UN was trying to prevent war. What UN resolution says we should go ahead and invade Iraq? ...You won't find one. It's not our place to enforce UN resolutions when they did not call for force, so don't use them as an excuse. Imminent has everything to do with it. What we did was aggressive, pre-emptive war, which is exactly what we condemned the Nazis for doing. The entire purpose of the UN was to prevent exactly that.
Of course the UN didn't want to enforce their own resolution; that would have ended and exposed all their oil-for-food scandals in Iraq. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Because there was nothing to enforce, the inspectors were in country doing their jobs, a requirement of the resolutions. Bush violated the resolutions by invading, forcing the inspectors out and creating a humanitarian crisis that is still going on.