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plmkrzy
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Why I think Bush is scary
by Simon inhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4767542/ in woodward's portrait, president bush is single-minded, and possibly simple-minded, in his resolve.
he seems to have relied more on divine guidance than the considered opinions of his top advisers.
bush told woodward that as he approached the final decision to go to war, "i was praying for strength to do the lord's will ... i'm surely not going to justify war based on god.
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Is the Administration Planning Another War?
by Greenpalmtreestillmine ini've been reading and reading, thinking and thinking.
it is hard to understand why president bush chose to come out in support of sharon right at this moment, when things in iraq are at their most difficult and sensitive.
people are saying he has only inflamed the situation even more than before and has further endangered the troops.
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Realist you are barking at parked cars. I didn't post any links to prove or disprove ANYTHING! so get off me! You have a one tract mind thats for sure.
My posts are in response to paterns of behavior that pertain to the subject of "this thread" not your thoughts.
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six:
Dear International posters: Pork Chop represents America about as much as Prince represents Jehovah's Witnesses.
True...Prince is always discovering "new light" but I still don't think pork chop likes us.
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Is the Administration Planning Another War?
by Greenpalmtreestillmine ini've been reading and reading, thinking and thinking.
it is hard to understand why president bush chose to come out in support of sharon right at this moment, when things in iraq are at their most difficult and sensitive.
people are saying he has only inflamed the situation even more than before and has further endangered the troops.
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plmkrzy
Like I said and I'll only say it one more time. You need to take at least enough time to pay attention to what you are reading rather then read things into what you are reading. You might learn more.
There are lots of dates, there is also a point. See if you can stay busy enough with the link below to learn a little
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Is the Administration Planning Another War?
by Greenpalmtreestillmine ini've been reading and reading, thinking and thinking.
it is hard to understand why president bush chose to come out in support of sharon right at this moment, when things in iraq are at their most difficult and sensitive.
people are saying he has only inflamed the situation even more than before and has further endangered the troops.
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plmkrzy
Realist you are so incredably bias you never take the time to pay attention. You cut yourself short long enough to say everyone else is funny. The only accomplishment you make is to look
bad.shortsightedWhy don't you pay enough attention to the link and take the time to look at ALL the data on ALL parties not just stop where it suits you. Crap if we had a president that thought as you do then I bet Israel wouldn't even be on the map anymore.
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Is the Administration Planning Another War?
by Greenpalmtreestillmine ini've been reading and reading, thinking and thinking.
it is hard to understand why president bush chose to come out in support of sharon right at this moment, when things in iraq are at their most difficult and sensitive.
people are saying he has only inflamed the situation even more than before and has further endangered the troops.
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Is the Administration Planning Another War?
by Greenpalmtreestillmine ini've been reading and reading, thinking and thinking.
it is hard to understand why president bush chose to come out in support of sharon right at this moment, when things in iraq are at their most difficult and sensitive.
people are saying he has only inflamed the situation even more than before and has further endangered the troops.
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plmkrzy
I doubt all of this is made up
Go to Iraq's Biological Weapons Program.
IRAQ
Nuclear, Biological, Chemical, and Missile Capabilities and Programs
Nuclear[2] - With sufficient black-market uranium or plutonium, Iraq probably could fabricate a nuclear weapon.
- If undetected and unobstructed, could produce weapons-grade fissile material within several years.
- Engaged in clandestine procurement of special nuclear weapon-related equipment.
- Retains large and experienced pool of nuclear scientists and technicians.
- Retains nuclear weapons design, and may retain related components and software.
- Repeatedly violated its obligations under the NPT, which Iraq ratified on 10/29/69.
- Repeatedly violated its obligations under United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 687, which mandates destruction of Iraq's nuclear weapon capabilities.
- Until halted by Coalition air attacks and UNSCOM disarmament efforts, Iraq had an extensive nuclear weapon development program that began in 1972, involved 10,000 personnel, and had a multi-year budget totaling approximately $10 billion.
- In 1990, Iraq also launched a crash program to divert reactor fuel under IAEA safeguards to produce nuclear weapons.
- Considered two delivery options for nuclear weapons: either using unmodified al-Hussein ballistic missile with 300km range, or producing Al-Hussein derivative with 650km range.
- In 1987, Iraq reportedly field tested a radiological bomb.
Biological[3] - May retain stockpile of biological weapon (BW) munitions, including over 150 R-400 aerial bombs, and 25 or more special chemical/biological Al-Hussein ballistic missile warheads.
- May retain biological weapon sprayers for Mirage F-1 aircraft.
- May retain mobile production facility with capacity to produce "dry" biological agents (i.e., with long shelf life and optimized for dissemination).
- Has not accounted for 17 metric tonnes of BW growth media.
- May possess smallpox virus; tested camelpox prior to Gulf War.
- Maintains technical expertise and equipment to resume production of Bacillus anthracis spores (anthrax), botulinum toxin, aflatoxin, and Clostridium perfringens (gas gangrene).
- Prepared BW munitions for missile and aircraft delivery in 1990-1991 Gulf War; this included loading al-Hussein ballistic missile warheads and R-400 aerial bombs with Bacillis anthracis.
- Conducted research on BW dissemination using unmanned aerial vehicles.
- Repeatedly violated its obligations under UNSC Resolution 687, which mandates destruction of Iraq's biological weapon capabilities.
- Ratified the BTWC on 4/18/91, as required by the Gulf War cease-fire agreement.
Chemical[4] - May retain stockpile of chemical weapon (CW) munitions, including 25 or more special chemical/biological al-Hussein ballistic missile warheads, 2,000 aerial bombs, 15,000-25,000 rockets, and 15,000 artillery shells.
- Believed to possess sufficient precursor chemicals to produce hundreds of tons of mustard gas, VX, and other nerve agents.
- Reconstructing former dual-use CW production facilities that were destroyed by U.S. bombing.
- Retains sufficient technical expertise to revive CW programs within months.
- Repeatedly used CW against Iraqi Kurds in 1988 and against Iran in 1983-1988 during the Iran-Iraq war.
- An extensive CW arsenal?including 38,537 munitions, 690 tons of CW agents, and over 3,000 tons of CW precursor chemicals?has been destroyed by UNSCOM.
- Repeatedly violated its obligations under UNSC Resolution 687, which mandates destruction of Iraq's chemical weapon capabilities.
- Not a signatory of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Ballistic missiles[5] - May retain several al-Hussein (modified Scud-B) missiles with 650km range and 500kg payload.
- May retain components for dozens of Scud-B and al-Hussein missiles, as well as indigenously produced Scud missile engines.
- Maintains clandestine procurement network to import missile components.
- Reconstructing missile production facilities destroyed in 1998 by U.S. bombing.
- May possess several hundred tons of propellant for Scud missiles.
- If undetected and unobstructed, could resume production of al-Hussein missiles; could develop 3,000km-range missiles within five years; could develop ICBM within 15 years.
- Launched 331 Scud-B missiles at Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, and 189 al-Hussein missiles at Iranian cities during the 1988 "War of the Cities."
- Developing Ababil-100 with 150km range and 300kg payload, flight-testing al-Samoud with 140km range and 300kg payload, and producing Ababil-50 with 50km range and 95kg payload.
Cruise missiles[6] - C-601/Nisa 28 and HY-2 Silkworm with 95km range and 513kg payload.
- SS-N-2c Styx with 80km range and 513kg payload.
- Exocet AM-39 with 50km range and 165kg payload.
- YJ-1/C-801 with 40km range and 165kg payload.
Other delivery systems[7] - Reportedly converting L-29 jet trainers to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for delivery of BW or CW.
- May possess spraying equipment for BW dissemination by helicopter.
- Experimented with MIG-21 as unmanned delivery vehicle for BW.
- Fighter and ground attack forces may total 300 fixed-wing aircraft, including Su-25, Su-24MK, Su-20, Su-7, MiG-29, MiG-25, MiG-23BN, MiG-21, Mirage F1EQ5, and F-7.
- Ground systems include artillery and rocket launchers, notably 500+ FROG-7 artillery rockets and 12-15 launchers, with 70km range and 450kg payload.
Sources:
[1] This chart summarizes data available from public sources. Precise assessment of a Iraq's capabilities is difficult because most weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs remain secret and cannot be verified independently. Although inspections by UNSCOM and the IAEA's Iraq Action Team provided detailed information about past Iraqi programs, assessing Iraq's current capabilities is difficult due to its policies of denial and deception, and the departure of UNSCOM inspectors in November 1998.
On Iraq's deception and denial policies, see: Khidhir Hamza with Jeff Stein, Saddam's Bombmaker (New York: Scribner, 2000). David Albright, "Masters of Deception," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54:3 (May/June 1998). Barton Gellman, "A Futile Game of Hide and Seek," Washington Post, 10/11/98. Barton Gellman, "Arms Inspectors ?Shake the Tree," Washington Post, 10/12/98.
On UNSCOM's efforts to disarm Iraq of WMD, see Robert Einhorn, Robert Gallucci, Dimitri Perricos, Jere Nichols, Gary Dillon, Ephraim Asculai, and Michael Eisenstadt, 6/14-15/01, transcripts from a conference, "Understanding the Lessons of Nuclear Inspections and Monitoring in Iraq: A Ten-Year Review," Washington, DC. Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). <http://www.isis-online.org/publications/iraq/index.html>. Richard Butler, The Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Growing Crisis in Global Security, (New York: Public Affairs, 2000). Tim Trevan, Saddam's Secrets-The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons, (New York: Harper Collins, 1999).
[2] IAEA Action Team on Iraq, 7/13/01, "Fact Sheet: Iraq's Nuclear Weapon Programme," International Atomic Energy Agency, <http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/Programmes/ActionTeam/nwp2.html> . Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Proliferation: Threat and Response, (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001). Kelly Motz, undated [accessed 9/12/01] "What Has Iraq Been Doing Since Inspectors Left? What Is On Its Shopping List?" Iraq Watch, <http://www.iraqwatch.org/updates/update.asp?id=wpn200107231601>. William J. Broad, "Document Reveals 1987 Bomb Test by Iraq," New York Times, 4/29/01, p. 16. David Albright, "Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Program: Past, Present, and Future Challenges," PolicyWatch #301, 2/18/98, <http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/watch/Policywatch/policywatch1998/301.htm> . U.S. Government White Paper, "Iraq Weapons Of Mass Destruction Programs," 2/13/98, <http://www.state.gov/www/regions/nea/iraq_white_paper.html>. Steven Dolley, 5/12/98, "Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Program: Unresolved Issues," Nuclear Control Institute, <http://www.nci.org/iraq/iraq511.htm>. Steven Dolley, 2/19/98, "Iraq and the Bomb: The Nuclear Threat Continues," Nuclear Control Institute, <http://www.nci.org/i/ib21998.htm>. Anthony H. Cordesman, Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: Regional Trends, National Forces, Warfighting Capabilities, Delivery Options, and Weapons Effects, Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 2001, <http://www.csis.org/burke/mb/me_wmd_mideast.pdf>, pp. 85-86. David Albright, "A Special Case: Iraq," Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996: World Inventories, Capabilities, and Policies, (Oxford: Oxford University Press/SIPRI, 1997), pp. 309-50.
[3] United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM), Report: Disarmament, 1/25/99, United Nations, <http://cns.miis.edu/research/iraq/ucreport/index.htm>. Motz undated. Steve Bowman, "Iraqi Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Capabilities," (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Research Service, 2/17/98), pp. 1-5. Barbara Starr, "UNSCOM Inspectors Still Doubt Iraq's Arms Claims," Jane's Defence Weekly, 2/25/98, p. 18. U.S. Government White Paper 1998. Cordesman 2001, pp. 81-84. Gellman 1998. Jonathan Tucker, "Lessons of Iraq's Biological Weapons Program," Arms Control Today, 1993, 14(3): 229-71.
[4]U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), "Unclassified Report to Congress on the Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 July Through 31 December 2000," 9/7/01, <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/bian/bian_sep_2001.htm>. Motz undated. Javed Ali, Spring 2001, "Chemical Weapons and the Iran-Iraq War: A Case Study in Noncompliance," Nonproliferation Review 8(1): 43-58. UNSCOM 1/25/99. Bowman 1998, pp. 1-5. U.S. Government White Paper 1998. Starr 1998, p. 18. Cordesman 2001, pp. 75-79. United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM), "UNSCOM Main Achievements," 5/98, <http://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/achievement.htm>. Physicians for Human Rights, "Winds of Death: Iraq's Use of Poison Gas Against its Kurdish Population," (Boston, MA: Physicians for Human Rights, 2/89), pp. 1-2.
[5] CIA 9/7/01. Cordesman 2001, pp.71-75. "German Assessment: Iraqi Missiles Will Reach Europe by 2005," Deutsche Presse Agentur (Berlin), 2/23/00, <http://www.BerlinOnline.de>. Jane's Online, "Country Inventory ? In Service," and "Offensive Weapons, Iraq," Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems 36, 7/24/01, <http://online.janes.com>. National Intelligence Council, Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States Through 2015, 9/99, <http://www.cia.gov/nic/pubs/other_products/foreign_missle_developments.htm> . Carnegie Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project, undated [accessed 8/14/01], "World Missile Chart, <http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/resources/ballisticmissilechart.htm> . Motz undated. UNSCOM 1/25/99. Federation of American Scientists, undated, "Iraq," <http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/missile/>. Centre for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS), undated, "National Briefings: Iraq," "Ballistic Missile Capabilities by Country," and "Iraqi Ballistic Missile Capabilities," <http://www.cdiss.org/>. U.S. Government White Paper 1998. Starr, p. 18. Dilip Hiro, The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict (London: Grafton Books, 1989). Interview with Tim McCarthy, Senior Missile Analyst, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 4/30/98.
[6] National Defense Industrial Association, Feasibility of Third World Advanced Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat: Volume 2, Emerging Cruise Missile Threat, 8/99, <http://www.ndia.org/committees/slaad/ECMTVol2.pdf>, pp. 138-145. CDISS, undated, "Emerging Cruise Missile Capabilities," <http://www.cdiss.org/images/tabled.htm>.
[7] CIA 9/7/01. Motz undated. Jane's Online 7/24/01. The Military Balance 2000/2001 (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2000), p. 141.
Updated October 28, 2003.
September 2001 update by Michael Barletta and Jeffrey Fields.
November 1998 original by Michael Barletta and Erik Jorgensen.
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Is the Administration Planning Another War?
by Greenpalmtreestillmine ini've been reading and reading, thinking and thinking.
it is hard to understand why president bush chose to come out in support of sharon right at this moment, when things in iraq are at their most difficult and sensitive.
people are saying he has only inflamed the situation even more than before and has further endangered the troops.
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Is the Administration Planning Another War?
by Greenpalmtreestillmine ini've been reading and reading, thinking and thinking.
it is hard to understand why president bush chose to come out in support of sharon right at this moment, when things in iraq are at their most difficult and sensitive.
people are saying he has only inflamed the situation even more than before and has further endangered the troops.
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plmkrzy
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Syria?s Weapons of Terror Aimed at Israel
CBN News at CBN.com ^ | April 17, 2003 | Chris MitchellPosted on 04/17/2003 11:50:27 AM PDT by Geist Krieger
Syria?s Weapons of Terror Aimed at Israel
By Chris Mitchell
Middle East Bureau Chief
April 17, 2003At a previously unknown missile test site southeast of Homs, the Syrians appear to be testing and improving their deadly arsenal.
CBN.com? JERUSALEM ? Secretary of State Colin Powell says he will travel to Damascus to meet Syria's President Bashar Assad. The meeting comes in the face of Syrian denials that it has weapons of mass destruction. But in the past six years, CBN News shown exclusive evidence that Syria does have such weapons, and the missiles to deliver them.
Satellite images obtained by CBN News show what could be described as Syria's Cape Canaveral. Harold Hough, an intelligence analyst and contributor to the world's leading military journal Jane's Intelligence Review, helped us analyze these images. "What we're seeing is a very sophisticated missile development program," he said.
In 1997, and again in 1999, Hough interpreted these exclusive satellite images obtained by CBN News. According to Hough, the pictures reveal the advanced capability of the Syrian missile arsenal, and they demonstrate that Syria aggressively developed its own missile program, independent of any outside nation.
"They are actually, apparently improving their missiles. They aren't satisfied with just missiles that they bought from the Chinese or North Koreans or even the Russians. They're trying to make them bigger, better and deadlier," Hough said.
Since CBN News first reported on Syria's missile program, new satellite imagery taken just months ago confirms that Syria has not only continued but expanded its aggressive missile program, even after Bashar Assad took power when his father died three years ago.
"What we see here are some very large decontamination ponds," Hough deduced from one satellite photo.
Perhaps the most disturbing revelation from our 1999 story are the areas Hough identified as large decontamination ponds. Hough believes the satellite shots confirm what some had suspected: that Syria is outfitting its missiles with deadly chemical weapons.
"These are incredibly large reservoirs of water and they have pipelines leading to bunkers. Now what that implies is that there are chemical warheads stored in this area and that they're loading these chemical warheads on Scud missiles and they have these decontamination ponds in case there's an accident," Hough said.
One photo of a barren spot protected by a S.A.M. missile battery shows a facility near the town of Homs, which experts suspect is a plant used for producing nerve agents such as VX gas. It shows how the chemicals are stored in small tanks away from the main facility under heavy guard.
At a previously unknown missile test site southeast of Homs, the Syrians appear to be testing and improving their deadly arsenal. Here under heavy protection, are bunkers where intelligence analysts say chemical warheads for the Scud missiles may be stored.
At another site near Hama, we see two full brigades of Scud C missiles ? missiles that are often deployed for use against population centers. These images suggest that Syria possesses far more launchers than previously thought. Analysts say this raises the stakes for a first strike capability.
"Look at it this way. Let's say you know your neighbor has one gun and maybe 1,000 rounds of ammunition. You might not worry. But you might worry a lot more if you found out he had 20 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition," Hough said.
The pictures confirm that Syria's weapons program has moved well beyond a defensive posture. "These are terror weapons. They're good for striking at Jerusalem, at Tel Aviv, Haifa and places like that, but they have a limited value on the battlefield," Hough said.
As this report shows, the exclusive satellite photographs reveal startling details about Syria's development of chemical weapons and missile sites. As the war with Iraq winds down, Syria's program for weapons of mass destruction appears to be a leading factor in the current showdown with the Bush administration
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Jail him as an example !
by Simon inhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/allpolitics/04/20/congressman.gun/index.html
some dumb congressman taking a loaded glock pistol onto an aircraft.. a guy was just jailed for 9 months in the uk for arriving at heathrow (from washington dulles) with amminution in his jacket.
but hey, he wasn't a congressman ... just a black guy.
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plmkrzy
This WMD is
slowlyquickly turning into the fable about the little boy who cried wolf.
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