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Harry Krause wrote:
Gould 0738 wrote: I've seen some of the storyboards of upcoming television commercials. They're delightful. No they're not. For the next 11 months we will engage in an experiment to see which side can gather the most votes from Boobus Americanus by saying hateful things about the other. Sadly enough, after the mega-millions spent by political candidates to slander one another- we draw very little distinction between disdain for the "wrong" candidate and disdain for the people who support that candidate. Actually, the kinds of ads I'm envisioning are aimed at getting the core voters riled up so they show up at the polls on election day. Boobus Americanus votes Republican these days, and you could show the actual video tape of Bush diddling Michael Jackson and it wouldn't matter to them. The lies, the mischaracterizations, the demonizations, and the wretched, smoking poison will flow from Democrat and Republican sources alike. The flow began from the GOP. Let's keep that in mind. What a hoot!! Harry the biggest liar of all time & Chucky the boat broker are concerned about the truth!!!! in the election. A laugh a minute this bunch, they really are. K Here's some of Harry's lies for you, just to bring back old memories:-) I'm doing my part to ease unemployment. I'm hiring another writer for my staff. Will be putting the ad on MONSTER.COM and in the Wash Post. I need more staff because 2004 is a major election year and business booked to date indicates we'll be drowning in work. We need to hire a production coordinator, too. It has very little to do with the state of the economy, other than using it as reason to defeat Republicrap candidates. I'm doing my part to ease unemployment. I'm hiring another writer for my staff. Will be putting the ad on MONSTER.COM and in the Wash Post. We have first-class benefits, including a top-of-the-line health insurance plan, a non-contributory defined-benefit pension plan, a 401k, and a life insurance policy equal to annual salary. We contribute a share of profits to the 401k on behalf of the employee. Our employees pay $4.50 for generic prescriptions and $8.00 for non-generics, but that's going up next year to $10 and $15. New employees get two weeks vacation the first year, and that goes to three weeks the third year. In addition, we have 12 paid holidays and we shut down from noon on Christmas eve to the day after New Year's Day. We also provide 20 days of paid sick leave a year. And we have an outside company administering pre-tax flexible bennies for our employees. Our fringe benefit package follows the trade union model, except, of course, for the profit contributions to 401k's. Trade unions are not-for-profit enterprises. How do these compare to the bennies at your shop? Paid? Every year? I call "bull****". With 3 weeks vacation, 12 paid holidays, and 20 paid sick days that's 47 *paid* days off every year. Are they hourly employees? For a "small business", that's the road to bankruptcy. Boy...and you had me going there for a minute. Not quite so simple, though you are trying hard to make it so. Our business is up because we're on the cusp of an election year. Our business always goes up in a major election year. You could say we're going to be doing very well in 2004 because Bush is such a total failure. The 20 paid sick days aren't part of the "paid" days off unless those days are used. None of our people abuses sick leave. In fact, no one as yet has even come close to using 20 sick days in one year. They're there in case they're needed. Oh, I forgot. We also provide everyone with LTD. The company provides an insurance plan that pays 50% of an employe's salary for Long Term Disability. Employes have the option of purchasing an additional 16.66%, bringing their total to 66.66%. The basic benefit maximum is $4,000 per month. With the buy up, the limit is increased to $10,000 per month. Here's just some of his prior lies (in his own words pasted); I sold off nearly $3,000,000 in new motors and boats, depressing the new boat industry in southern Connecticut for an entire season. Everything was sold...every cotter pin, every quart of oil, 30 days after I started. For near full-retail, too. He had just under $1,000,000 on floor plan with a syndicate of banks led by National Shawmut of Boston. He had been a solid customer of that back for more than 20 years and they gave him great rates. As far as your other complaints, well, almost every president in my memory, and I *remember* Truman, Eisenhower (who cheated on his wife), Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan and Bush, lied and participated in deceit to one degree or another, and on issues far more important than who was giving them blow jobs. Good lord. I met *every* president in the damned group except Bush, and I worked once for his father. My father used to pray that the north shore of LI Sound would be hit by a mild hurricane. No one injured, no on-shore property damaged, but lots of boats sunk. Preferably early in July. We had the Hatteras for two years. Last year, out of the cold clear, a broker approached me with an offer to buy. Our continued Florida lifestyle was somewhat up in the air, because the two breadwinners hereabouts were about to be offered long-term but temporary assignments they could not refuse in the Washington, D.C., area. So, after being romanced a little, we sold the Hatt for almost precisely what we paid for it. Not bad, after two full years of use. And I mean full years. So, we didn't "make" any money off the Hatt, but we didn't lose any, either. The proceeds were prudently invested. The PWC was won as a prize in a raffle. Never mind that. Why does he have a Bilgeliner in front of his office? Is it a display of "Boating Don'ts?" Yeah, when we were in the boat biz, my father always had one or two "around the back" that he was forced to take in trade. These were sold as "as is, where is." He made sure the engine would start and run. Beyond that, it was up to the prospective buyer to decide if he wanted it. They moved off the lot pretty quickly, partially because my dad's main store was on a highly trafficked commercial route with lots of manufacturing and machining and aerospace plants near by. In those days, workers at these places could fix anything. Actually, Dipper, I don't think my father ever saw a Bayliner. But he still called bumpers bumpers. -- Bayliner wined and dined my father a half dozen times to entice him into becoming its dealer. His operation was the largest small boat dealership in its area of New England, and for 30 years, he was the *exclusive* Evinrude dealer in a densely populated coastal county. He also handled Mercuries. He never liked Bayliners, and referred to them as "jerry-built." From 1947 until he died, he sold more than 500 outboard motors a year from his stores, accounting for a reasonably high percentage of *all* outboards sold in his home state for those years. This is a killer. My father was in the boat business dating back to right after the Big War. When he died and I was looking through his warehouse, I found wrapped in a nuclear fall-out bag (no kidding), a brand-new 1949 Evinrude 8015 50 hp outboard. The motor was a gift to my father from Evinrude for winning some outboard stock utility or hydroplane race. I gave the motor to a friend of my dad's, who worked at the shop as head mechanic. I don't believe he ever used it and I'm sure it is still brand-new. I have no idea who might own it now. He also built boats, and I worked on a few, both wood, glass covered wood and all fiberglass. After he died, however, we sold the biz and I've just been an occasional boat owner. Besides, I worked off and on in the boat business and inherited it when he died. So, as I said, I'm knee-deep in boat heritage. Oh, and I had some friends who died in the service, too, but it wasn't for what they believed in. They were drafted, shipped to Vietnam and came back in body bags. During the war, he turned out experimental brass shell casings for the Army and hopped up outboards for the Navy, which wanted to use them on smaller landing craft. I had photos at one time of my father with Ole Evinrude himself. My mother knew one of Evinrude's wives...she was a minor movie star or singer...I forgot which. Maybe both. Have you ever sailed from San Francisco to Hawaii? I have. Have you ever rounded Cape Horn? I have, twice. Have you ever transited the Panama Canal? I have. Have you owned more than 20 boats in your lifetime? I have. Have you ever sailed large boats competitively? I have. Have you ever been hundreds of miles from land in a powerboat under your command? I have. My father and his chief mechanic once crossed the Atlantic in winter in a 22' boat powered by twin outboards. Yes, it is possible, even the fuel. Got a "fireboat" welcome in NYC. Here are some: Hatteras 43' sportfish Swan 41' racing/cruising sloop Morgan 33 O'Day 30 Cruisers, Inc., Mackinac 22 Century Coronado Bill Luders 16, as sweet a sailboat as ever caught a breeze. Century 19' wood lapstrake with side wheel steering Cruisers, Inc. 18' and 16' wood lapstrakes Wolverines. Molded plywood. Gorgeous. Several. 14,15,17 footers with various Evinrudes Lighting class sailboat Botved Coronet with twin 50 hp Evinrudes. Interesting boat. Aristocraft (a piece of junk...13', fast, held together with spit) Alcort Sunfish Ancarrow Marine Aquiflyer. 22' footer with two Caddy Crusaders. Guaranteed 0 mph. In the late 1950's. Skimmar brand skiff Arkansas Traveler fiberglass bowrider (I think it was a bowrider) Dyer Dhow Su-Mark round bilge runabout, fiberglass Penn Yan runabouts. Wood. Old Town wood and canvas canoe Old Town sailing canoe...different than above canoe Sometime in the early 1960s, I was driving back from Ft. Leonard Wood to Kansas City in a nice old MGA I owned at the time. About halfway home it started raining heavily, I turned on the wipers, and EVERY SINGLE electrical accessory and light in the car flashed on, there was a large popping sound and it all blew out at once. And the car caught fire. I pulled over to the side of the road, watched the fire, removed my license plate and hitched on home. For all I know, that old MGA is still there. Sure was a pretty little car. Puh-lease, Karen. You've not seen nor have I ever posted one example of my professional writings on building structure and the effects on it of hurricane-force winds and seismic activity. I haven't done any of these in at least 10 year, but at the time I was field researching, photographing and writing these reports, they were quite accurate, topical and well-received by their intended audiences. A small fleet of Polar skiffs were purchased by an inshore bait, tackle and boat rental business on the ICW in NE Florida. These boats were not used on open waters. Within 90 days, cracks developed in the liners that also served as the deck over the flotation in the bottom of the hulls. A guide I know, one whose boats and engines are supplied to him by manufacturers, also had a Polar skiff go bad on him for the same reasons -liner and then hull fractures. Harry has claimed to have a 20 yrs his junior beautiful wife, he even put a fake pic of a beautiful woman on a website once claiming it was his "young bride", he may have a wife, although I doubt it, we don't like nor tolerate misogynists for long. Needless to say he's made up many "dramatic" over the top stories over the years about this lie to feed his ego & pretend he's the centre of attention, but as with his boat claims & other crap, there's never once been even a shred of independently verifiable material. After he stalked Madcow in real life, which was most frightening, I do suspect he's very very dangerous & that this "bride" story is his delusional appropriation of his, probably court ordered, treating psychotherapist as "wife" (it seems he was under lock & key for what?? over a year??? a sexual deviant maybe??), have a read of just a small part of his BS & make up your own mind, it's all about free choice:-) 1. She *is* my bride. There are no rules that determine the end of "bride-hood." If I want to refer to her as my bride, I may. 2. As a professional writer, I know the rules of language and am entitled to break them in exercise of my license. 3. I doubt many married women would object to their husbands lovingly referring to them as brides. The connotations are pleasant. 4. She's 20 years younger than I am. Naw. What happened was that I handled a couple of "political" consulting jobs funded out of the DC area to help a few candidates and defeat a couple of ballot issues. Through no fault of mine, we won each of the races, so some of the deep pockets types based in the DC area think I actually *know something* about the process. I was offered a contract that requires my presence in DC quite frequently. My bride also was offered a job up here that represented a significant professional career move. So, we're "up here" much of the time and "down there" the rest of it, except when we're "somewhere else." I've been back to Jax (well, really south of Jax) five times since coming "up here" late last summer and my bride just returned from a business trip there. I swear this is true. Here's a funny. My bride had to fly out to San Diego Wednesday and hitched a ride on her company's corporate jet. They landed in Salina, Kansas, which is due north of Wichita and Skippy's suburb of Derby. So when she gets to San Diego, I get a call asking, "What the hell did you do in Kansas...we didn't fly over one significant patch of water...?" Harry, you make over 500 posts a week to this group and you don't own a boat? And why are you so crabby? Maybe these two factors are related? One has to own something to use it? Hmmm. My bride drives off in her car every day, but she doesn't own it. I'm not crabby. You asked for advice I gave you some. I questioned your wanting to take a very small boat out into high seas and suddenly you turned sour. It's your pot; you are the one stewing in it. No, it is the boat of a friend. It is a 24' ProLine center console with, if I recall, a 225 hp Merc on it. It was a dark and stormy day in January (1997) when we went out, but the sky cleared once we got out to the Gulf Stream. Bride and I caught and released: 1 white marlin 12-15 yellowtail snappers, maybe two pounds each. Pretty, pretty fish. Assorted red snappers 1 amberjack 2 jack crevalle jacks 1 snook Nondescript sharks Did you spend a year as a line psychotherapist at a 650-bed state hospital for forensic patients? Did you spend a year as senior psychotherapist at a county facility for substance abusers? Did you spend two years as chief of therapy at a private, 200-bed facility for the mentally and emotionally ill, at which approximately half the patients were trying to beat drugs or alcohol? Are you currently chief of therapy for a for a multi-practitioner practice of some 825 patients, about a third of which are seeking help for substance abuse problems? Licensed psychotherapist Screening as to character and background for each degree earned On-going screening by faculty while in educational system Interviews and screenings for required years of internships, plus, at the same time, supervision by a licensed professional. Close professional and personal supervision by a licensed therapist for two years of employment before being allowed to apply for licensure Licensure background check, submission of recommendations by licensed practitioners Four hour written examination on state laws Five hour written examination on diagnosis, procedure and practice My wife went through this before becoming licensed. Her final internship was as a psychotherapist at a 600-bed high security state psychiatric hospital where, on a daily basis, she was exposed to more danger than your average soldier. My wife worked for a year as psychotherapist in a Florida 600-bed state mental institution for forensic patients. She saw and treated numerous sexual deviants who do a bit more than expose themselves. Such "treatment" is part of being in the mental health professions. You see, I'm a nautical psychotherapist, and for only $125 an hour, until their health insurance runs out, I help Bayliner owners overcome their feelings of boatable inadequacy. She is a licensed, practicing psychotherapist and often tells me I am the sanest person she sees each day. Which can be taken any way one likes. 1. I'm married to a psychotherapist. Live-in therapy, dontcha know? And much of Freud is passe. My ex-wife surpassed the anti-Christ at least a decade ago. They're not actually "free" moments. I go to boat dealers to round-up Bayliner owners who are trying to find one who will take their own version of flotsam and jetsam in on trade. 1. The address listed is not a home address. It is an office. 2. I have three phone numbers. The phone number listed is not one of mine. It has never been one of mine. The phone number *did* belong to an after-hours message recording hotline my wife maintained for her most mentally disturbed patients. Some of these troubled souls were court-ordered referrals. *Every* call to that phone number--every call--was recorded AND because of the nature of the line, my wife had the ability to alert the telephone company to trace the phone number of every incoming call to that line, *even* if the person making the call tried to block his number. Why, you might ask? Because when you are dealing with suicidal people, they'll liable to tell their therapist over the phone that they are planning to take their life. If the therapist believes the threat is real, she or he will want to dispatch emergency srvices and perhaps the police. In the years my wife has provided this pro bono service, she has never received a threatening or abusive call from a mentally ill patient or court-ordered referral. However, after the ranking Flaming Ass of this newsgroup posted the hotline number in this newsgroup, she received a number of abusive, foul-mouthed AND life-threatening calls. These were mostly directed at me but, of course, I never received them BECAUSE (duh!) the phone is not mine and I've never answered it. Naturally, my wife alerted the authorities, with whom she works closely because of her court-referred patients. The authorities are investigating the callers and have involved both the FBI *and* authorities in other states, including Florida, Georgia, California and Texas. Working with the telephone company, the authorities have been able to trace the origin of virtually every abusive call. And, of course, they have the tape recordings of the abusive messages. Several suspects have been identified. I really don't know what the outcome of all this will be. We haven't had an update in several weeks, nor are either of us here that interested in the sleazeballs that would make such calls. The phone number, of course, is "wired," so when the obnoxious calls came in from the idiot rec.boaters, the numbers were easy enough to trace. The local police handled a complaint, the local telco was involved and when it was discovered the point of origin was out of state, the FBI got involved. At least one of the idiots was caught and prosecuted. As far as I can tell, he has not posted here again |
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How is the hate you spew in this group and different than the hate on some
talk radio? "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... John Gaquin wrote: "Gould 0738" wrote in message Puh-leeze. We'd need to go back a couple of hundred years to figure out who "started it." Shame on you *and* Harry for insisting it was the other side. My apologies, Chuck et al. I *do* agree with your point above. In the original draft of my reply to Harry, there was a sentence referencing to the "slime alley" as a two-way street. In editing it got cut, and I failed to notice. Mea Culpa. The conservatives have institutionalized it, however, with hate radio. But let's not intentionally *******ize the language or the process with loaded buzzwords like "hate radio". It's hate radio. The "hosts" are spewing hate. There's no other word to describe it. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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Harry Krause wrote: It's hate radio. The "hosts" are spewing hate. There's no other word to describe it. And there's no other word to describe your presence here either. It's hate, pure and simple. -- Charlie ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... NOYB wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... NOYB wrote: "thunder" wrote in message news On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 04:14:00 +0000, NOYB wrote: I dunno Harry. This one has me totally perplexed. There is an absolute venom towards Bush on your side of the aisle. I've read articles from writers who stated they hate even the way he walks. Yet, that message only seems to come to those liberals that have a strong interest in politics. Obviously, the hate message isn't resonating with the great majority of the country. That venom has been with us for some time, and isn't limited to one side of the aisle. I never liked Clinton, but to this day, I am amazed at the rabid hatred he inspires in some. Personally, I don't think either President is deserving of hatred, and find the polarization troubling and dangerous. I suspect the reasons lie in both sides perceptions that Washington can not effectively run the country. Blame for this is often the "other side". Actually, my feelings toward Bill Clinton had less to do with his policies and more to do with his immorality. But Bush's immorality and his endless lies about really important matters don't concern you, eh? How is bush immoral, and what is he lying about? 1. Oh, puh-lease. 2. Everything. Here's a short and now out of date list of the lies of Bush and his administration about one subject...WMD: Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. Dick Cheney Speech to VFW National Convention August 26, 2002 Not Bush...but, nevertheless, not a lie. Saddam had 7 months from that date to hide 'em or move 'em to Syria. Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons. George W. Bush Speech to UN General Assembly September 12, 2002 Again, absolute truth. Even Blix agreed with that one. If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world. Ari Fleischer Press Briefing December 2, 2002 Not Bush again...but still not a lie. We know for a fact that there are weapons there. Ari Fleischer Press Briefing January 9, 2003 Even the Clinton White House was convinced there were weapons there. Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. George W. Bush State of the Union Address January 28, 2003 We've already discovered the materials necessary to produce the stuff. We just haven't found the WMD's...yet. At least as far as any of us outside the White House knows. We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more. Colin Powell Remarks to UN Security Council February 5, 2003 We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have. George W. Bush Radio Address February 8, 2003 If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last several months since (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the crisis that we now have before us . . . But the suggestion that we are doing this because we want to go to every country in the Middle East and rearrange all of its pieces is not correct. Colin Powell Interview with Radio France International February 28, 2003 Well, there's a partial lie in this one. They *do* want to rearrange the Middle East...and for good reason. So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment has to be clearly not. Colin Powell Remarks to UN Security Council March 7, 2003 Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. George W. Bush Address to the Nation March 17, 2003 I don't think the regime possesses them anymore...as they're in Syria being concealed. Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes. Ari Fleisher Press Briefing March 21, 2003 There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them. Gen. Tommy Franks Press Conference March 22, 2003 I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction. Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman Washington Post, p. A27 March 23, 2003 One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites. Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark Press Briefing March 22, 2003 We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. Donald Rumsfeld ABC Interview March 30, 2003 I believe that was about Saddam and his supporters...not WMD's. Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty. Neocon scholar Robert Kagan Washington Post op-ed April 9, 2003 But make no mistake -- as I said earlier -- we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found. Ari Fleischer Press Briefing April 10, 2003 We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them. George W. Bush NBC Interview April 24, 2003 There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country. Donald Rumsfeld Press Briefing April 25, 2003 We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so. George W. Bush Remarks to Reporters May 3, 2003 I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now. Colin Powell Remarks to Reporters May 4, 2003 We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country. Donald Rumsfeld Fox News Interview May 4, 2003 I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program. George W. Bush Remarks to Reporters May 6, 2003 U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons of mass destruction. Condoleeza Rice Reuters Interview May 12, 2003 I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden. Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne Press Briefing May 13, 2003 Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found. Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps Interview with Reporters May 21, 2003 Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction. Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff NBC Today Show interview May 26, 2003 They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer. Donald Rumsfeld Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations May 27, 2003 For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on. Paul Wolfowitz Vanity Fair interview May 28, 2003 That's about as honest and forthright an answer you could ask for. WMD's was *one* issue for getting rid of the guy. It was a surprise to me then — it remains a surprise to me now — that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying. We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there. Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Press Interview May 30, 2003 Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I think there's a lot of information out there." Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, Defense Intelligence Agency Press Conference May 30, 2003 When the WMD's show up next summer, Harry and his ilk will have already dug their own graves on this issue...and they'll only have themselves to thank for it. |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... John Gaquin wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message news:br0lft$27poe8 Here's a short and now out of date list Since you unequivocally pronounce all these statements as administration lies, we can presume that you have confirmed documentary evidence that there are not now and were not then any NBC weapons in Iraq. Sources, please? WMD, please? It's too early. David Kay's preliminary report was pretty convincing all by itself. However, the Bush administration knows that it will take a lot more to convince the most ardent naysayers. I suspect the final report will be all the proof that anyone needs...and will be released sometime next summer. |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Here's a short and now out of date list of the lies of Bush and his administration about one subject...WMD: We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have. George W. Bush Radio Address February 8, 2003 Iraqi officer admits to be source of 45-minute WMD attack claim: paper www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-07 18:31:33 LONDON, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- An Iraqi military officer has admitted that he was the source of the claim on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction attack that led to a British scientist's apparent suicide, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. According to the paper, Lt. Col. al-Dabbagh, who commanded a front-line unit during the build-up to the US-led war against Iraq,has revealed how he passed top secret information to British intelligence warning that the Iraqi former regime had deployed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that could be used on the battlefield against coalition troops in less than 45 minutes. "I am the one responsible for providing this information," the 40-year old former head of an Iraqi air defense unit in the western desert, told the paper in an exclusive interview. The paper said al-Dabbagh, who is now working as an adviser to Iraq's Governing Council, also insisted that the information related to Iraq's battlefield WMD capability was correct. "It is 100 percent accurate," al-Dabbagh said, adding local commanders were told that they could use the weapons only on the personal orders of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He said he believed that the alleged banned weapons have been hidden at secret locations and still in Iraq, a claim that comes against the backdrop that the coalition forces have been combing Iraq in search of the alleged WMD since March without any success. On the paper's report, a spokeswoman for British Prime MinisterTony Blair said Downing Street was not prepared to comment but it urged all those involved to provide the Iraq Survey Group with whatever information they believe they have. The British government published a dossier on Iraq's banned weapons last September, including the claim that Iraq could deploychemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so. David Kelly, a weapons expert of the British Ministry of Defense, apparently committed suicide in July after being identified as the source for a BBC report that accused the government of "sexing up" the dossier to make a stronger case for the US-led Iraq war. Kelly's death led to a judicial inquiry by senior judge Lord Hutton that has questioned the government's use of intelligence inthe run-up to the Iraq war. During the inquiry led by Hutton, who was expected to publish his report early next year, Richard Dearlove, head of the British secret service MI6, said that the information contained in the intelligence dossier relating to the 45-minute claim had come froma single "established and reliable" source serving in the Iraqi armed forces. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_1218017.htm |
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Saddam sought missile factory, Iraqi files show
By DAVID E. SANGER and THOM SHANKER New York Times WASHINGTON -- It was Saddam Hussein's last weapons deal -- and it did not go exactly as he and his generals imagined. For two years before the American invasion of Iraq, Saddam's sons, generals and front companies were engaged in lengthy negotiations with North Korea, according to computer files discovered by international inspectors and the accounts of Bush administration officials. The officials now say they believe that those negotiations -- mostly conducted in neighboring Syria, apparently with the knowledge of the Syrian government -- were not merely to buy a few North Korean missiles. Instead, the goal was to obtain a full production line to manufacture, under an Iraqi flag, the North Korean missile system, which would be capable of hitting American allies and bases around the region, according to the Bush administration officials. As war with the United States approached, though, the Iraqi files show that Saddam discovered what American officials say they have known for nearly a decade now: that Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, is less than a fully reliable negotiating partner. In return for a $10 million down payment, Saddam appears to have gotten nothing. The trail that investigators have uncovered, partly from reading computer hard drives found in Baghdad and partly from interviews with captured members of Saddam's inner circle, shows that a month before the American invasion, Iraqi officials traveled to Syria to demand that North Korea refund $1.9 million because it had failed to meet deadlines for delivering its first shipment of goods. North Korea deflected the request, telling Saddam's representatives, in the words of one investigator, that "things were too hot" to begin delivering missile technology through Syria. The transaction provides an interesting glimpse into the last days of the Saddam government, and what administration officials say were Iraq's desires for a long-term business deal for missiles and a missile production plant. Bush administration officials have seized on the attempted purchase of the North Korean missiles, known as the Rodong, and a missile assembly line to buttress their case that Saddam was violating U.N. resolutions, which clearly prohibited missiles of the range of the North Korean Rodong. It also establishes that Syria was a major arms-trading bazaar for the Saddam government, in this case hiding an Iraqi effort to obtain missiles, they say. Investigators say Syria had probably offered its ports and territory as the surreptitious transit route for the North Korea-Iraq missile deal, although it remains unclear what demands the government in Damascus might have made in return. Further, according to U.S. government officials and international investigators, the Iraqi official who brokered the deal, Munir Awad, is now in Syria, apparently living under government protection. If it served as a middleman in this deal, as the documents suggest, Syria was acting in violation of Security Council resolutions even as it served on the council and voted with the United States on the most important resolution before the war. In an interview in Damascus on Sunday with The New York Times, Bashar Assad, the Syrian president, was asked about the deal described in the Iraqi computer files and said, "This is the first time I have heard this story." He said Saddam "was never able to trust Syria, and he never tried and we never tried to make any relation between him and any other country because he did not trust us in the first place." For all its complaints about arms smuggling across the Syrian-Iraq border, Assad said, the United States had never cited specific cases, adding, "I told the Americans if you have any evidence that there is smuggling of weapons into Iraq, please let us know." International inspectors note that the missile deal gone bad appears to be the most serious violation that has been found so far. The investigators say they tripped over it while looking for something far more nefarious -- evidence of a continuing nuclear program, or an active effort to accumulate more biological or chemical weapons. "So far, there's really not much in that arena," said one official who has monitored the continuing search for weapons led by David Kay, a former weapons inspector who is now conducting the search for the CIA. After spending tens of millions of dollars in a search that continues on the ground in Iraq to this day, the official noted, "We've learned this much: that Kim Jong Il took Saddam to the cleaners." The first clue of the North Korea-Iraq deal surfaced in public in October when Kay released preliminary findings of his inquiry into Saddam's program for developing unconventional weapons. Kay said his team had uncovered evidence that Iraq had negotiated a deal with North Korea to acquire missiles, a transaction that a senior administration official said was apparently never detected by American intelligence agencies. But when it came time for the North Koreans to deliver on the deal, the North Koreans demurred, according to an Iraqi account of the meeting in Syria that international inspectors found on an Iraqi computer hard drive. According to the files, the North Koreans said Iraq was under too much American scrutiny. And evidence amassed since the invasion of Iraq indicates the deal was for more than just missiles. "This $10 million was a down payment, and not just a straight purchase for Rodong missiles, but for Rodong technology," said one American official who has read documentation on the deal. "Saddam's intent was to get the expertise from the North Koreans and, potentially, open his own production line." If the American interpretation is right, it is unclear where Saddam might have built the production line or how it could have avoided detection by American satellites. The exact outlines of the deal remain unclear, the official said, "since the North Koreans ended up stiffing the Iraqis." The Iraqis were demanding their money back, "right up to the end," the official said. American investigators say they have been able to discern outlines of the murky deal. The $10 million was too much to buy simply a missile or two, American and international experts say, and too little for an entire production line, leading to the conclusion that it was a down payment. Investigators said information downloaded from Iraqi computer hard drives, at least one of which was obtained before the invasion of Iraq, allowed them to more specifically interrogate detained members of Saddam's inner circle. They, in turn, guided investigators deeper into the mountain of official documents seized during the war. "You do that, sort of a back-and-forth process," said one American official. "You find something on a computer disk or in the pile of documents slowly being translated. That makes you ask questions of the detainees. Then you bounce back to the documents and so forth. That's how you get the bigger picture." Administration officials say investigators uncovered evidence of meetings between the Iraqis and North Koreans as least as far back as late 2001. One administration official said American intelligence had evidence that "the agents from North Korea flew into Syria -- that's where the first meeting took place." Other officials said at least one round of talks was held in North Korea. The final session was held in Syria in February of this year, just before the war began, officials said. On that trip, according to the Iraqi account of the meeting in Syria , the Iraqis were also seeking night-vision goggles, ammunition and gun barrels -- mostly through European middlemen. At that point, a huge American-British force had been built up on Iraq's southern borders, and it was clear that war was coming. What is also interesting about the shopping list, however, is "what's not on it," said one investigator. "Nothing nuclear, no dual-use items, nothing about weapons of mass destruction." American officials said the failed missile deal was brokered by an Iraqi firm called Al Bashair Trading Co., also spelled Al Bashir in some documents, which has been identified by American investigators as having had past involvement in arms trade for Iraq conducted with Yugoslavia. The company reported directly to the Iraqi military command, investigators said, and had close ties to one of Saddam's sons, Qusai, who was killed in a battle with American troops in July. The negotiations with the North Koreans were conducted by Munir Awad, the senior officer of Al Bashair, American and international investigators said. "Munir Awad is one of three men who personally oversaw the most sensitive transfers of money from Al Bashair to other front companies and governments and worked directly for Qusai Hussein," said one American official. "Awad is believed to be in Syria under the protection of the Syrian government." |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message news:c3dhc2g=.e94b15cb225c5b955ebcfb918f5c59a0@107 0907842.cotse.net... NOYB wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... John Gaquin wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message news:br0lft$27poe8 Here's a short and now out of date list Since you unequivocally pronounce all these statements as administration lies, we can presume that you have confirmed documentary evidence that there are not now and were not then any NBC weapons in Iraq. Sources, please? WMD, please? It's too early. David Kay's preliminary report was pretty convincing all by itself. However, the Bush administration knows that it will take a lot more to convince the most ardent naysayers. I suspect the final report will be all the proof that anyone needs...and will be released sometime next summer. If it is, it'll be rightfully slammed for being pre-election Republican bull****. If it were released tomorrow, it would simply be Republican bull****. No one is going to believe suddenly uncovered caches of WMD now. You meant to say that *you* won't believe it. Anybody that challenges a finding of WMD's will be slammed for pre-election Democratic bull****. |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message news:c3dhc2g=.78954f52b57a82695192ae4be1fca2a9@107 0908131.cotse.net... NOYB wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Here's a short and now out of date list of the lies of Bush and his administration about one subject...WMD: We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have. George W. Bush Radio Address February 8, 2003 Iraqi officer admits to be source of 45-minute WMD attack claim: paper www.chinaview.cn 2003-12-07 18:31:33 LONDON, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- An Iraqi military officer has admitted that he was the source of the claim on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction attack that led to a British scientist's apparent suicide, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported. According to the paper, Lt. Col. al-Dabbagh, who commanded a front-line unit during the build-up to the US-led war against Iraq,has revealed how he passed top secret information to British intelligence warning that the Iraqi former regime had deployed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that could be used on the battlefield against coalition troops in less than 45 minutes. "I am the one responsible for providing this information," the 40-year old former head of an Iraqi air defense unit in the western desert, told the paper in an exclusive interview. Yeah, right. After six months of 1400 inspectors and 130,000 troops looking for WMD, an Iraqi colonel comes forward to say Iraq had WMD. No. Read it again. The Colonel was the source cited by Bush and Blair who claimed that the generals were given orders before the war to launch WMD's. You say Bush is lying. Well, he was going on info from guys like this colonel. There's a few problems with this tale: First, the Colonel's interview is presented in the dark - I guess we have to take his word for it that he is a Colonel from Iraq and not a farmer from Montana. Second, according to the Colonel, Saddam had given the order to use the weapons if things got desperate. I guess every single Iraqi officer who had the weapons made the same decision at the same time and decided to hide rather than use the weapons. No small coincidence since they were all risking death if caught and there could not have been communication between every Iraqi officer during the war. Third, the Colonel fed expatriot Iraqis with the same information which they passed on to the U.S. Where are these Iraqi's now? They are on the governing council. No conflict of interest there. Fourth, not the Colonel nor any Iraqi officer is able to show where these large WMD caches are hidden. Nor can they identify a single member of the Republican Guard who may know where the WMD are hidden. Fifth, Colonel wants us to believe that all the Iraqi officers who had the WMD were really really good at hiding things since none of the caches have been located. Sixth, the Colonel says the weapons must have been chemical weapons because they were all given gas masks. That is his evidence - given gas masks so the explosives must have been chemical weapons. The "Colonel" probably was Sean Hannity doing a bad impression of a New York taxi driver. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_1218017.htm |
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:05:40 +0000, NOYB wrote:
It's too early. David Kay's preliminary report was pretty convincing all by itself. However, the Bush administration knows that it will take a lot more to convince the most ardent naysayers. I suspect the final report will be all the proof that anyone needs...and will be released sometime next summer. Maybe, but they are releasing the Iraqi weapons scientists now. Doesn't look good for finding any WMDs. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...pons08-ON.html |
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