"NOYB" wrote in message
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"thunder" wrote in message
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:21:15 +0000, NOYB wrote:


First reform: admit that there may have been something to the US claims
that weapons and weapons equipment had been moved before the war.

Uh, the UN report says nothing about equipment being moved *before* the
war. The report is concerned with known dual use equipment that the UN
was actively monitoring until the war. Much of that equipment has now
gone missing while under nominal US control.

It's interesting you are willing to miss- characterize the report from
the evil UN, but completely ignore the US' own Iraq Survey Group's main
findings. Iraq did not possess chemical or biological weapons, and only
had aspirations of nuclear weapons. It further states, quite clearly,
that there is no evidence that WMD was moved to Syria.

Saying "we found no evidence" is a lot different from "there were no
weapons moved". Duelfer emphatically clarified this point when he issued
his assessment.

The report *did* mention that the transfer may have taken place, but that
the ISG could not confirm nor absolutely deny that it ever took place.

The Russians just about admitted when they complained about some of their
nationals being killed by our planes that they were removing "incriminating
technology" from Irag into Syria. Speculation was they they were moving
records, advanced SAM systems, GPS jamming systems, Computers, missles and
other equipment that they weren't allowed to sell Saddam. Trucks were seen
loading at sites north of Bagdad and driving east. Since they had
information on our satellite systems they could time the travel so that we
couldn't see where they went.

It's very easy to produce biological and nerve gas agents. The delivery
systems are the hard part. HE had the delivery systems. Biolgical would
take 10 days. Chemical would require less time but chemicals we were
tracking were hard to accuire. When sanctions were lifted that would be no
problem. That's why he had to go, all it takes to have and use these
weapons is the will to use them. They are cheaper and more effective that
nuclear or conventional explosives. They leave the infrastructure intact,
perfect weapons for a dictator who wants to control the worlds major oil
reserves. Once he has them he can threaten to blow them up if he is
attacked. Heard that before?