Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/25/06, Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just heard our president say that one of the disappointments of the Iraq war is that we didn't find WMDs. I have to correct myself. Wasn't taking notes. Here's exactly what he said: "Other developments were not encouraging, such as the

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 25 Oct 2006 at 10:55, Nick Arnett wrote: > "Other developments were not encouraging, such as the bombing of the U.N. > headquarters in Baghdad, the fact that we did not find stockpiles of weapons > of mass destruction, and the continued loss of some of America's finest sons > and daughters." >

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/25/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You mean except the sarin shells and suchlike? Yea. no, he didn't have nuclear capacity, but chemical and a willingness to use it? Ask the Kurds. If he had chemical WMDs when we invaded, then the president of the United States misled t

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 25 Oct 2006 at 12:14, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/25/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > You mean except the sarin shells and suchlike? Yea. no, he didn't > > have nuclear capacity, but chemical and a willingness to use it? Ask > > the Kurds. > > > If he had chemical

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Jonathan
On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 25 Oct 2006 at 10:55, Nick Arnett wrote: "Other developments were not encouraging, such as the bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, the fact that we did not find stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and the continued loss

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/25/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "WMD", right. A useless politicised term. I prefer the precise term "NBC". Which, indeed, he retained the capacity for. They're STILL finding stashes of decayed chemical warfare shells out there. Are you saying that when we invaded, Ira

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread dcaa
reless handheld. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -Original Message- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:56:00 To:"Killer Bs Discussion" Subject: Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging! On 10

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IIRC, there have been some chemical weapons found in Iraq, including a story I read sometime when insurgents used an old mustard gas shell as an IED. However, there has not been large enough stocks of sufficient known manufacture lots to

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 25 Oct 2006 at 12:56, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/25/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > "WMD", right. A useless politicised term. I prefer the precise term > > "NBC". Which, indeed, he retained the capacity for. They're STILL > > finding stashes of decayed chemical warfar

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 25 Oct 2006 at 12:29, Jonathan wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > On 25 Oct 2006 at 10:55, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > >> "Other developments were not encouraging, such as the bombing of the > >> U.N. > >> headquarters in Baghdad, the fact that we did not find

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/25/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So...why DO you think Iraq did not still have a chemical weapons program? Which part of "when we invaded" do you not understand??? They didn't have a program and they didn't have stockpiles -- when we invaded. Thus, as our dear leade

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread pencimen
Andrew Crystall wrote: > Indeed... > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120268,00.html One shell constitutes an active program??? > http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163896/posts Looks like a right wing loony site. Can you find the same story from a reputable source? Like this one:

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread jdiebremse
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are you arguing here? and then. > So, Mr Braveheart. Content with being a real hero - but only when you > play one online? and then.. > I'm more interested in whatever became of the Anthrax poisoning of a > few key

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-25 Thread jdiebremse
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If he had chemical WMDs when we invaded, then the president of the United > States misled the entire country this morning. > > He was discouraged that Saddam didn't *still* have WMDs, apparently. Unless, of course, those wea

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 25 Oct 2006 at 15:34, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/25/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > So...why DO you think Iraq did not still have a chemical weapons > > program? > > > Which part of "when we invaded" do you not understand??? > > They didn't have a program and t

RE: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Ritu
Nick Arnett wrote: > I have to correct myself. Wasn't taking notes. Here's > exactly what he > said: > > "Other developments were not encouraging, such as the bombing > of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, the fact that we did not > find stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and the >

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 25 Oct 2006 at 23:02, pencimen wrote: > Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > Indeed... > > > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120268,00.html > > One shell constitutes an active program??? > > http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1163896/posts > > Looks like a right wing loony site. Can

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: They're lying. Period. Iraq had Saran, at the VERY least. They're *STILL* finding dangerous Saran shells (and I wish like heck that some of the so-called news reporters wouls say something about it..I talk to friends of American soliders

RE: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Horn, John
> On Behalf Of Andrew Crystall > > Iraq had Saran, at the VERY least. They're *STILL* finding > dangerous Saran shells (and I wish like heck that some of the > so-called news reporters wouls say something about it..I talk > to friends of American soliders out there for the real news, tbh). I'm

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Oct 2006 at 7:02, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > They're lying. Period. > > > > Iraq had Saran, at the VERY least. They're *STILL* finding dangerous > > Saran shells (and I wish like heck that some of the so-called news > > report

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And there are no outright "lies". I never said there were. What I actually said was that the fact over 700-800 shells with chemical weapon traces, more than the number which were believed he held (400- 500) is somehow NOT considered very n

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Oct 2006 at 13:14, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > And there are no outright "lies". I never said there were. What I > > actually said was that the fact over 700-800 shells with chemical > > weapon traces, more than the number which wer

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How you bothered to actually read the evidence rather than taking the politicans spin? There might be some actual material proving my point! Read it? I've posted it. And my satire of Bush's idea that it was "not encouraging" that we

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Oct 2006 at 14:09, Nick Arnett wrote: > I haven't denied that. I've just refused to leap to the conclusion that > A couple of leftover warheads with sarin hardly constitutes a stockpile, Lies. PLAIN LIES. You ARE denying it, and "leftover" warheads, right. Over FIVE HUNDRED leftover wa

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread dcaa
quot;Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:09:38 To:"Killer Bs Discussion" Subject: Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging! On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > How you bothered to actually read the evidence rath

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Charlie Bell
On 27/10/2006, at 5:04 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: There WERE useful weapons. Period. A program, possibly. But your historical revisionism is plain and bluntly sickening. As of *2004*, Saran shells were still potentially lethal in roadside ambushes. Once, as far as I can find. Yes, 2 1/2 ye

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Charlie Bell
On 27/10/2006, at 7:17 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: Your name-calling doesn't exactly go far to convince me that all those Your blatent lies and historical revisionism.. well, when do we get to the holocaust denial? Because THAT is another logical progression, from the little popular histori

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You ARE denying it, and "leftover" warheads, right. Over FIVE HUNDRED leftover warheads, right. Oh, I'm sorry, I missed the memo that said we get to count degraded old non-working warheads as a "stockpile." Must be in this pile of old

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/26/06, Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There WERE useful weapons. Period. A program, possibly. But your > historical revisionism is plain and bluntly sickening. As of *2004*, > Saran shells were still potentially lethal in roadside ambushes. Once, as far as I can find. No, n

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 27 Oct 2006 at 8:52, Charlie Bell wrote: > > On 27/10/2006, at 7:17 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > > >> Your name-calling doesn't exactly go far to convince me that all > >> those > > > > Your blatent lies and historical revisionism.. well, when do we get > > to the holocaust denial? Beca

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Oct 2006 at 15:56, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > You ARE denying it, and "leftover" warheads, right. Over FIVE HUNDRED > > leftover warheads, right. > > > Oh, I'm sorry, I missed the memo that said we get to count degraded old > non

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Oct 2006 at 16:03, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/26/06, Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > There WERE useful weapons. Period. A program, possibly. But your > > > historical revisionism is plain and bluntly sickening. As of *2004*, > > > Saran shells were still potentially let

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Nick Arnett
On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well done, you trumped yourself. I never said it, you did. People REALLY need to think before invoking Godwin's law. It also proves my point - Godwin's law is itself a paranoid conspiracy meme. (Right up there with "Won't someone think of

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Crystall
On 26 Oct 2006 at 16:40, Nick Arnett wrote: > On 10/26/06, Andrew Crystall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Well done, you trumped yourself. I never said it, you did. People > > REALLY need to think before invoking Godwin's law. It also proves my > > point - Godwin's law is itself a para

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-26 Thread Charlie Bell
On 27/10/2006, at 9:14 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: Your blatent lies and historical revisionism.. well, when do we get to the holocaust denial? Because THAT is another logical progression, from the little popular historical re-writings to the major ones, as paranoia progresses. Seen it all b

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-28 Thread Jonathan
On Oct 25, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 25 Oct 2006 at 12:29, Jonathan wrote: On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: On 25 Oct 2006 at 10:55, Nick Arnett wrote: "Other developments were not encouraging, such as the bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, th

Re: Oops, not disappointing -- discouraging!

2006-10-28 Thread Jonathan
On OpenMail playsound "ScoobyDoo-puzzled" type char, "?" End OpenMail Call me feeble minded and dense, because I'm sure you do, but what point does such an artfully un-commented Comment below make? - Jonathan - On Oct 25, 2006, at 8:33 PM, jdiebremse wrote: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], J