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you mustve listened to an edited version of the report then. heres an excerpt from the presentation powell gave....please not the bold/italic portion at the bottom:
Let's look at one. This one is about a weapons munition facility, a facility that holds ammunition at a place called Taji. This is one of about 65 such facilities in Iraq. We know that this one has housed chemical munitions. In fact, this is where the Iraqis recently came up with the additional four chemical weapons shells.
Here you see 15 munitions bunkers in yellow and red outlines. The four that are in red squares represent active chemical munitions bunkers.
How do I know that? How can I say that? Let me give you a closer look. Look at the image on the left. On the left is a close-up of one of the four chemical bunkers. The two arrows indicate the presence of sure signs that the bunkers are storing chemical munitions. The arrow at the top that says "security" points to a facility that is a signature item for this kind of bunker. Inside that facility are special guards and special equipment to monitor any leakage that might come out of the bunker. The truck you also see is a signature item. It's a decontamination vehicle in case something goes wrong. This is characteristic of those four bunkers. The special security facility and the decontamination vehicle will be in the area, if not at any one of them or one of the other, it is moving around those four and it moves as needed to move as people are working in the different bunkers.
Now look at the picture on the right. You are now looking at two of those sanitized bunkers. The signature vehicles are gone, the tents are gone. It's been cleaned up. And it was done on the 22nd of December as the UN inspection team is arriving, and you can see the inspection vehicles arriving in the lower portion of the picture on the right.
The bunkers are clean when the inspectors get there. They found nothing.
He never said that they were pictures of sites that had been 'cleaned up' by the Iraqi's.
um, he didnt? er, please explain the above then...im confused?
I listened to the Powell presentation and he insisted that the satelite photo's were of WMD in-situ and they were the excuse to go in.
this is a blatant misrepresentation of the facts. powells presentation WAS NOT "the excuse to go in".........the reason to "go in" was that saddam had not fully complied with res.1441, which called for military action. powells presentation was simply a last ditch effort to unite the security council, it was not, in any way shape or form, the primary reason/evidence given to support the invasion. there was a mountain of evidence before powell ever spoke to the u.n., which is why ive always stated that my personal belief that there are wmd in iraq has never been due to anything powell said.....his report is really secondary to the years of lies and dancing by saddam and company. the proof was there long ago.
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