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2004-03-02 Iraq

U.N.: Iraq had no WMD after 1994

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Posted by JerseyMike 2004-03-02 7:33:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I don't know why they would release a conclusive study; the UN normally likes to keep things grey in case the situation changes.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-2 8:23:50 AM|| 2004-3-2 8:23:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't this like betting on the game after it is over?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-3-2 8:58:45 AM|| 2004-3-2 8:58:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 CF, I think its more like betting on the game in the 4th quarter, loudly, against your boss, while his team is losing.
As a US taxpayer, I have little interest in footing the bill for a quarter of this clown's salary. I respect his right to speak. I work hard enough for my paycheck that I don't feel the need to sponsor his undiplomatic grandstanding.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-3-2 9:08:08 AM|| 2004-3-2 9:08:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ignore it. These little after-the-fact, process-based criticisims are meaningless.

Posted by mojo 2004-3-2 10:47:01 AM|| 2004-3-2 10:47:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 so when are we going too kick the UN out of New York?

Posted by smokeysinse 2004-3-2 10:56:37 AM|| 2004-3-2 10:56:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 CF, as SH points out, the game is not over. The WMD will turn up in Syria in the Spring (in the custody of US Special Forces.

SH, I would go for a reduction in our dues payments until such time as the UN: (i) accounts for what happened to the Iraq oil-for-food program money, (ii) performs an audit on international aid to the Palestinian Authority, (iii) establishes an office to promote democracy and free markets, (iv) closes the 50-year old Palestinian refugee camps, and (v) adds Japan and India to the Security Council. With the money we save, we should endow a new organization consisting solely of countries with democratically elected governments that espouse free and open markets. I wouldn't mind my tax dollars going to that group.

Smokeysinse, No need to kick the UN out of NYC. They fill the posh hotel rooms and the swank restaurants (and thus NYC's tax coffers).

Posted by Tibor 2004-3-2 11:24:19 AM|| 2004-3-2 11:24:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 This report is a baldfaced admission that Hans Blix was doing absolutely nothing but run up an expense account in Iraq.

Posted by eLarson 2004-3-2 11:57:33 AM|| 2004-3-2 11:57:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 CF,this is about rewriting history. Down the road, the UN official position will be: "If George Bush had been a little ~~less cowboy~~ more paitient, we would have found out Saddam had no WMDs"

Surprised the Kerry & the DNC has not picked up this talking point.

Posted by john 2004-3-2 1:16:56 PM|| 2004-3-2 1:16:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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