Re: Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 10 2003 - 23:29:10 MDT

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    --- Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
    > matus wrote:
    > > Arab World Stunned by Baghdad's Fall
    > > Full article -
    > >
    >
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20030410/ap_on_re_mi_ea/wy
    > > ar_arabs&e=2
    > >
    > > "Across the Middle East, people struggled to reconcile images of
    > celebrating
    > > Iraqis with widely held suspicions about the United States'
    > motives."
    > >
    > > Indeed, I am sure some members of this list are stuggling to put a
    > negative
    > > spin on this event as well.
    >
    > Our motives were not to free the Iraqis. At one time I believe
    > you admitted as much at least indirectly. You have seemed to
    > believe the motive was WMD. We found none. So do the Iraqis
    > dancing in the street say that our motives were other than what
    > they were or that the war was justified? I don't think so.

    Samantha, when will you learn to stop putting your foot in your mouth?
    We are finding evidence every day, much of which is reported in the US
    media. The defense department is taking samples and waiting for lab
    confirmations before making any declarations, but finding a warehouse
    full of barrels labeled "Mustard" and "Tabun" is a slight smoking gun.
    Finding an underground lab on the same site that UN inspectors had
    'inspected' that has weapons grade plutonium in it, and finding a
    military transport with a hermetic room for loading bio/chem payloads
    into artillery shells is a bit of a smoking gun.

    Before shooting off at the mouth, I suggest you wait for a
    comprehensive report from the DoD. I expect they intend to lay it all
    out in one big report that will thoroughly discredit the UN as an
    institution capable of weapons monitoring. Partly for spite, partly to
    ambarrass France, Germany, and Russia (since we are finding so much
    illegal products sold by the three in the last 12 years), and partly to
    make the case that the UN can't be trusted to deal effectively with the
    North Korea problem.

    =====
    Mike Lorrey
    "Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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    "Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
    "Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
    For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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