> On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Larry wrote: > > > Aside from Bush's poodle, Tony Blair, how many of the so-called > coalition of the willing were bribed? All but Australia it would seem. > Countries like the >Ukraine and Georgia participated in the hopes of > the shrubbery's support for joining NATO, which they were denied of > course. > > Are you referring to all the anti-US politicians in the UK, France, > Russia, and bureaucrats at the UN, who were directly bribed by Saddam > Hussein through the oil for food scam? Somehow you forgot about them.
NO I'm talking about those countries that received direct cash or material payments by the bush administration for participating in the coaltion of the willing, like the Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia and others. > > And as Gruss said, it's a good thing we didn't let Georgia join, what > a mess that would have been! > > > As for the UN resolution, if you're referring to the one before the > invasion, that was predicated on false information and a very > deliberate campaign of >deception. > > "deliberate" by who? That's a complete falsehood perpetuated by the > Left to justify the world view that the US is the chief culprit in > everything that goes wrong. Propaganda. Lets see to start with how about Colin Powell's speech to the UN GA where he mentioned attempts by Saddam to buy yellow cake uranium from Niger, which never happened. > > The evidence is that everyone, including the White House, was misled > about the evidence coming from Iraq, and of course, the ultimate > culprit was Saddam, who in fact had used WMDs before, who we had good > reason to believe would use WMDs again, and who, by his own admission, > > refused to cooperate with the UN inspections because he thought he > could bluff his way out of the confrontation. You seem to forget that it was the US which ordered the inspectors out of Iraq. Also in the last 3 weeks before the conflict the UN weapons inspectors were allowed free access. Again, another neo-con attempt at the big lie. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266037 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
