That's a good reason to kill thousands of people ;) What you say may well be true. He apparently also said he left Iraq because of Bush. The two statements are not contradictory.
On 11/16/07, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > He fooled everyone > > > > > > > > > > > > Except for the UN weapons inspectors. > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, he just kept kicking them out. > > > > > > > > > ya but so did W before it was all over... > > > > > > Who, the inspectors or the Hussein regime? > > > > > > I'd have to ask for a reference if it was the inspectors. > > > > that's according to Hans Blix. > > Ahh, but according to Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix) > > During the Iraq disarmament crisis before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, > Blix was called back from retirement by UN Secretary General Kofi > Annan to lead United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection > Commission in charge of monitoring Iraq... Hans Blix personally > admonished Saddam for "cat and mouse" games and warned Iraq of > "serious consequences" if it attempted to hinder or delay his mission. > (end quote) > > Those "cat and mouse" games included creating the illusion of Iraq > HAVING weapons that were banned including WMD, chemical weapons (which > WERE found, dumped in the Tigris river). The "serious consequences" > ended up being the invasion of Iraq by coalition forces led by the US > and the eventual removal of the Hussein regime. > > So let's make this analogy - if someone walks into any office > building/ airport/ mall/ school (or whatever trigger point you want to > use) and SAYS they have a bomb and are going to set it off if their > demands are not met, they are treated as HAVING a bomb even if they're > holding an empty briefcase or a fake. The police, bomb squad or > anyone else is NOT going to go to the trouble of verifying that the > person is, in fact, holding a bomb. > > In the case of Iraq, Hussein was given 14 chances over a period of 11 > years to provide irrefutable proof that their weapons had been > destroyed. They refused. > > Hatton > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246568 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
