24th January 2004, 10:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 24th January 2004, 10:32 AM by A Black Falcon.)
Heh... you resort to stupid things like that. Pitiful.
Well, yes, for many years Sadaam did give the inspectors the runaround. However, before they left in 1998 they had found and gotten rid of a lot of his capacity for the banned weapons. After that the sanctions continued making it near-impossible for him to import the things he would need to really restart the program... and then in '02 when Bush started up the war drums he suddenly got scared. He let in the inspectors, if you remember, and let them look for banned weapons... they were not given enough time to finish their search, because Bush was impatient and attacked first, but they were doing a good job. Also, Sadaam agreed to dismantle those missiles that were determined to have a longer range than Iraq is allowed and until we attacked they were working on that. And the Iraqi scientists were saying they had nothing. Oh, Sadaam was deluded into thinking he had a small amount of chem/bio weapons, true, and probably because of that we thought he did too... but the utter lack of anything found by the inspectors should have been a clue. For any administration that was sane and did not hate the international community it would have been...
And again, why Sadaam? There are so many dictators out there who, in 2003, were far worse than Sadaam! He'd been sanctioned into a small-time dictator with a police state... the only reason we attacked him was because Bush wanted revenge for his father and because he's sitting on top of all that oil. You can't say that it's because he was so horrible of late -- yes he was a horrible dictator and yes the world is better off without him but cowboy justice is no justice any sane nation should want a part of.
*edit* Oh, this is a good article. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/24/arts/2...html?8hpib
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Well, yes, for many years Sadaam did give the inspectors the runaround. However, before they left in 1998 they had found and gotten rid of a lot of his capacity for the banned weapons. After that the sanctions continued making it near-impossible for him to import the things he would need to really restart the program... and then in '02 when Bush started up the war drums he suddenly got scared. He let in the inspectors, if you remember, and let them look for banned weapons... they were not given enough time to finish their search, because Bush was impatient and attacked first, but they were doing a good job. Also, Sadaam agreed to dismantle those missiles that were determined to have a longer range than Iraq is allowed and until we attacked they were working on that. And the Iraqi scientists were saying they had nothing. Oh, Sadaam was deluded into thinking he had a small amount of chem/bio weapons, true, and probably because of that we thought he did too... but the utter lack of anything found by the inspectors should have been a clue. For any administration that was sane and did not hate the international community it would have been...
And again, why Sadaam? There are so many dictators out there who, in 2003, were far worse than Sadaam! He'd been sanctioned into a small-time dictator with a police state... the only reason we attacked him was because Bush wanted revenge for his father and because he's sitting on top of all that oil. You can't say that it's because he was so horrible of late -- yes he was a horrible dictator and yes the world is better off without him but cowboy justice is no justice any sane nation should want a part of.
*edit* Oh, this is a good article. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/24/arts/2...html?8hpib
ITS FREE DARNIT WHY IS IT SO HARD TO SIGN UP
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