Subj : The War Has No Clothes
To   : Gaylen Hintz
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 08:22 am

  Re: The War Has No Clothes
  By: Gaylen Hintz to Deuce on Sat Oct 01 2005 00:05:00

 >  D> Everyone except americans who support the overthrow of the Iraqi
 >  D> government knew there were no WMDs.
 > 
 >  Ya think so? :)

I certainly do.

 >  Ok, so among the things they have found over there was enough saron and
 > mustard gas to kill 50,000 people.

Technically WMD, perhaps.  But not the NUCLEAR weapons that we were told 
threatened the world.

 >  Remember the big flap on the news where hundreds of thousands of tons of
 > munitions were supposedly missing from ammunition bunkers?  Hmmm, how can th
 > be missing when they weren't there in the first place?  Very strange. :)

Would those "munitions" be .22 ammunition, by any chance?  Because I don't 
believe conventiional bullets, shells and grenades qualifies as WMD...

 > Among the materials recovered were enough yellow cake uranium , when enriche
 > to make no fewer than 11 crude atomic bombs.

Niger has much more yellowcake than that!  And like Iraq they have ZERO 
capability for refining it into weapons-grade material.  

 >  As I mentioned in a previous note, my son recently came back from Iraq, and
 > tells me one of his job was destroying hundreds of thousands of tons of
 > munitions.

Again, munitions != WMD.

 > Finally, there is no one in the world that would argue that Saddam did not
 > have a large stockpile of WMD's , the question is what happened to it.  

I, like most of the world, am quite convinced that there were no WMD.  If 
there were the SLIGHTEST SIGN of any such, they would have been shown on 
TV with Monkey-boy standing around with a fake look of wisdom on his face.  
What happened to it is that it evaporated in a puff of American 
imagination!

 > We do know that some intact rocket motors for his "cruise" missiles 
 > landed up in the Netherlands.

He had slome lame-assed SCUD missiles too, at one time...  But no WMD.

 > With some thirteen months buildup to the final invasion, is it any wonder
 > they were not sitting out in plain sight? :)

What is a wonder is that IF he had any WMD, and IF he had some thirteen 
months warning, why is it that he didn't USE these wonderful weapons in 
defense of his own country, when he was attacked?


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