ok lets hear your pathetic excuses.
c'mon now don't be shy.
let's hear what you have to say.
PurpleV said:
"Added Bush: "This man tried to kill my dad."
No, it's not personal.
IronGland said:
Uhh, Purple..bush didn't really say that..
CNN said:
And, in discussing the threat posed by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Bush said: "After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad."
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not a jw story, but nonetheless it made me sick when this came out this week.. yizuman.
http://www.unknownnews.net/surrender.jpg
Edited by - seawolf on 12 January 2003 14:35:37
40% of nuns victims, survey says .
bill smith .
st. louis post-dispatch.
I saw this earlier and was going to post it but you beat me to it.
I can't say that I'm too surprised by what the article says nor in the fact that the test was completed in 1996 but "intentially never publicized."
haha funny! Going to send this one to a few people!
what are hippies smoking these days?
let me explain a few things to everyone:
let's chew on this first: what if america wasn't the world's only superpower?
True True True! Amazing how they got alot of computer, satalite, and nuclear tech when Clinton was around. Im sure it had nothing to do with his favorite Chinese fundraiser (who is now in jail). F- Clinton. Good old Clinton- a draft dodging communist sellout.
Agreed.
Also, don't forget about all the US weapons technology that Israel has sold to China. Patriot missles, Phoenix air-to-air missles, Lavi fighter, etc. I'm surprised the US intervened to stop the AWACS sale to China.
what are hippies smoking these days?
let me explain a few things to everyone:
let's chew on this first: what if america wasn't the world's only superpower?
hehe my last statement said:
I'm not saying anything about whether this was right or wrong. Just simply saying it happened and so is it any wonder that Saddam was making it difficult for the inspectors to do their work?
You spent most of your response in stating we were right to spy on him and it was a good thing. I was going to state (in my last post) that I'm not interested in the ethics of spying on him and it being right or wrong since I don't see what that had to do with this? Some of the UN inspectors were spies, and Saddam restricted their movement and hindered them from doing their job. As a result of some of them being spies, and Saddam hindering their work, they were withdrawn. Like Blix said, they were too closely associated with intelligence and western states so this messed it all up and ruined it. If there were no spies there, would the inspectors still be there now instead of being gone for four years? Who knows!
what are hippies smoking these days?
let me explain a few things to everyone:
let's chew on this first: what if america wasn't the world's only superpower?
You said that saddam kicked out the inspectors. From what I can see they were pulled out. kicked out != pulled out. Why are the papers now saying that Saddam kicked them out when four years ago they were saying they were pulled out? Which is it? You then tell me to put down the crack pipe and make some sense? Am I missing something here?
So what exactly are you trying to say then?
Not trying to say anything other than what I posted? However, if you want to get more into detail, ok. Some of the UN inspectors were spies working for the west
When he and Bush "demand" the return of the UN inspectors to Iraq, what they they omit to say is that the inspectors were never thrown out by Iraq, but ordered out by the UN after it was discovered they were being used as a cover for American spying.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12148547&method=full&siteid=50143
When United Nations inspectors last scoured Iraq for weapons of mass destruction in 1998, the CIA and its sister spy services were rarely far away.
Undercover U.S. agents working with the U.N. teams secretly planted a high-tech "black box" device in Baghdad that year to eavesdrop on Saddam Hussein's phone calls, among other Iraqi communications, former inspectors say. The signals then were encrypted in other U.N. data and transmitted via satellite to the National Security Agency headquarters at Ft. Meade, Md.
Other operatives helped the U.N. team track Iraqi officials abroad. In one case, they planted hidden cameras and microphones in the hotel room of an Iraqi scientist trying to buy banned missile parts in Romania and then sneaked into his room at night to photograph the contents of his briefcase.
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-usiraq23oct23,0,4477844.story
United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix says he cannot rule out the presence of spies in his team due to resume work in Iraq - adding that any intelligence agents will be ordered off the group.
Mr Blix acknowledged that charges of spying had undermined the work of the previous UN inspection regime, known as Unscom.
"Unscom lost its legitimacy by being too closely associated with intelligence and with Western states," he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2484569.stm
Seems to me Mr Blix sums it all up himself in that last quote of his. If they lost their legitimacy then there wasn't much sense for them even being there anymore.
I'm not saying anything about whether this was right or wrong. Just simply saying it happened and so is it any wonder that Saddam was making it difficult for the inspectors to do their work?
Edited by - seawolf on 3 January 2003 16:30:48
what are hippies smoking these days?
let me explain a few things to everyone:
let's chew on this first: what if america wasn't the world's only superpower?
dolphman,
SADDAM KICKED THEM OUT. I wonder why?
Actually, Richard Butler pulled them out.
A CNN article from 1998:
Butler late Tuesday ordered UNSCOM staff out of Baghdad. The entire staff was evacuated before dawn on Wednesday.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9812/16/iraq.strike/
BBC from 2002:
It is four years since the inspectors - then known as Unscom - were pulled out of the country, complaining that the Iraqi Government was preventing them carrying out their work.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2268256.stm
And here's an article on how the media has changed from "pulled out" in 1998 to "kicked out" in 2002:
i was watching the news last night.
the latest word from the war front is that we should be able to peaceably work out our differences with north korea.
as humiliating as it will be for us to kiss north korea's ass, we will do so because they do have the ability to nuke our west coast.
I just came across this article today and thought I'd post it here since it deals with this subject:
http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=2bdedd56-4092-438f-bcf9-43104c7de7c1
Although almost half of those surveyed agree the United States, as the world's sole superpower, has a responsibility to intervene in the affairs of other countries to protect global security, almost seven in 10 believe the U.S. is "starting to act like a bully with the rest of the world."
If this was an article on what the people of Tanzania think it wouldn't be very interesting, but it being on Canada, I thought it might be an interesting read.
i have tons of them, favorite movie quotes that is.
a misspent youth i guess, but i love movies.
i was watching one of my favorites the other day,seven.
Elwood Blues: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark...and we're wearing sunglasses.
Joliet Jake Blues: Hit it.
