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US report finds no WMDs LONDON: US arms experts are to confirm in the next fortnight that Saddam Hussein 's regime had no stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction when it was invaded last year, the daily Guardian said yesterday. In a report, it said it has learned that Iraq Survey Group set up by the US administration - charged with finding proof of Saddam's quest for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons - will deliver its report "in two weeks' time". "It will draw the final conclusion that there are no WMD in the country, although the threat of Saddam was real," it said. The Iraq Survey Group, comprising more than 1,000 mainly US intelligence and weapons experts, fanned out across Iraq in July 2003, four months after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam. In an interim report in October last year, its chief David Kay told the US Senate it had yet to find stocks of WMD, but added that it was not at a point where it could say definitely that such weapons did not exist. Kay reiterated his position when he resigned three months later. The Guardian said the release of the conclusions would put British Prime Minister Tony Blair in an awkward position just as his governing Labour Party holds it annual conference. Blair sought to justify taking Britain into the Iraq war by citing the threat of Iraqi WMD and the danger they might fall into terrorist hands. In July, a British inquiry into pre-war intelligence said Iraq - which under Saddam defied a string of UN resolutions on WMD - most likely possessed no useable weapons of mass destruction before the March 2003 invasion.
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:15:56 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote:
US report finds no WMDs
Although Saddam's wmd PROGRAMS remained quite active right up to the bitter end, and would no doubt have been kicked into high-yield production mode once France & Co. had managed to force a lifting of UN sanctions against the regime. Looking forward to the trial & execution of Left's dark prince. ulysses
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:15:56 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote: Although Saddam's wmd PROGRAMS remained quite active right up to the bitter end, and would no doubt have been kicked into high-yield production mode once France & Co. had managed to force a lifting of UN sanctions against the regime.
Got any proof? Who are you to decide what other countries do to defend themselves? Bush said he would use WMD if necessary.
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:28:31 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote:
ulysses wrote: You lie.
The drooling mantra of the michaelmoore Left. and would no doubt have been kicked into high-yield production mode once
You lie yet again. It ain't going to happen. There's a better shot he'll be turned loose, and the suffering Iraqi's will re-elect him leader. Remember Marion Barry of D.C?
That is surely your fondest dream. ulysses
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:39:03 +0100, "D" <dontspam@hotbotmail.com> wrote:
Got any proof?
Reams of it. Look to the findings, to date, of the Iraq Survey Group.
Who are you to decide what other countries do to defend themselves?
When the "other country" is a malignant regime -- one that murders its own citizens by the tens of thousands as it supports terrorist causes around the world, for instance -- we MAKE IT our business.
Bush said he would use WMD if necessary.
Cite please. ulysses
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:39:03 +0100, "D" <dontspam@hotbotmail.com> wrote: Reams of it. Look to the findings, to date, of the Iraq Survey Group. When the "other country" is a malignant regime -- one that murders its own citizens by the tens of thousands as it supports terrorist causes around the world, for instance -- we MAKE IT our business.
Hang on, America HAS killed tens of thousands, and it's the reason why terrorist group members are swelling in numbers. Are you saying America is a malignant regime?
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ulysses wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:28:31 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote: The drooling mantra of the michaelmoore Left. and would no doubt have been kicked into high-yield production mode once That is surely your fondest dream.
Sucker: The National Intelligence Estimate offers a grim outlook on the continuing struggle in Iraq. Will the administration accept the facts or continue to embrace its ideology? The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common: they don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit the views, which can be uncomfortable, if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering. -- Doctor Who The Bush administration's strategy for Iraq isn't working, and it's going to continue to fail. The National Intelligence Estimate for Iraq, compiled from the nation's various intelligence agencies, predicts three possible outcomes of the situation in Iraq and none of them are positive. They range from "a tenuous stability to political fragmentation to the most negative assessment of civil war," according to Reuters. The White House has been dismissing negative assessments of the situation in Iraq; spokesman Scott McClellan recently said, "You know, every step of the way in Iraq there have been pessimists and hand-wringers who said it can't be done." There's that "pessimists" meme again. But it isn't pessimism when you're looking at the cold, hard, sometimes-harsh facts. It's realism. The situation in Iraq is not getting better. It's not going to get better any time soon; the report suggests a gloomy outlook at least until the end of 2005, the time period covered by the report. The administration's Pollyanna-like attitude toward the situation certainly isn't going to make it get any better. Even some Republicans have become critical of the administration's handling of Iraq. For example, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar surely sounded "pessimistic" when he said, "Our committee heard blindly optimistic people from the administration prior to the war and people outside the administration what I call the 'dancing in the street crowd' that we just simply will be greeted with open arms. The nonsense of all of that is apparent. The lack of planning is apparent." So will the Bush administration now alter their views to fit the facts, or will they continue to alter the facts to fit their views? Has it ever occurred to these people that there may be a damn good reason to be "pessimistic?" Pessimism isn't necessarily a vice; a little pessimism can lead to more thorough planning and forethought to avoid impending doom. Maybe a little pessimism is just what's needed in the White House now. ---Nick
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wrote:
Hang on, America HAS killed tens of thousands, and it's the reason why terrorist group members are swelling in numbers. Are you saying America is a malignant regime?
A belligerant rouge state actually -- 1948 - PRESENT AMERICAN/ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE Estimated civilian deaths: 100,000 Palestinian people From the very beginning of the Zionist State of Israel in 1948, One of the earliest and most notorious incidents of Israeli terrorism was the Deir Yassin massacre in April, 1948. 250 Palestinian men, women and children were murdered in cold blood by Menachem Begin's Zionist "Irgun" group as it went from house to house seeking to drive all Palestinians out of their ancient homeland. It hasn't gotten any better since then. Besides murdering women and children, Israelis routinely torture Palestinian prisoners in jail. And almost all of it has been kept hidden by the mainstream American mass-media for 55 years. Just to give you another example of who the Israelis really are: in 1946, Menachem Begin's terrorist organization blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, murdering British nurses, in order to drive the British out of Palestine. Israeli society later rewarded Menachem Begin by electing him Prime Minister. The United States government gives billions of your tax dollars to the Israelis every year. And the U.S. government never pays people to do things it doesn't want done. Israeli state terrorism is essentially American state terrorism. 1953 - PRESENT AMERICAN-BACKED GENOCIDE OF THE GUATEMALAN PEOPLE Estimated civilian deaths: over 200,000 people From Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower A CIA-organized coup overthrew the democratically-elected and progressive government of Jacobo Arbenz, initiating 40 years of military-government death squads, torture, disappearances, mass executions and unimaginable cruelty, totaling more than 200,000 victims - indisputably one of the most inhumane chapters of the 20th century. The justification for the coup that has been put forth over the years is that Guatemala had been on the verge of the proverbial Soviet takeover. In actuality, the Russians had so little interest in the country that it didn't even maintain diplomatic relations. The real problem was that Arbenz had taken over some of the uncultivated land of the US firm, United Fruit Company [Chiquita bananas], which had extremely close ties to the American power elite. Moreover, in the eyes of Washington, there was the danger of Guatemala's social-democracy model spreading to other countries in Latin America. Despite a 1996 "peace" accord between the government and rebels, respect for human rights remains as only a concept in Guatemala; death squads continue to operate with a significant measure of impunity against union activists and other dissidents; torture still rears its ugly head; the lower classes are as wretched as ever; the military endures as a formidable institution; the US continues to arm and train the Guatemalan military and carry out exercises with it; and key provisions of the peace accord concerning military reform have not been carried out. 1955 - 1973 AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE CAMBODIAN PEOPLE Estimated total civilian deaths: 1,000,000 - 2,000,000 people Prince Sihanouk was yet another leader who did not fancy being an American client. After many years of hostility toward his regime, including assassination plots and the infamous Nixon/Kissinger secret "carpet bombings" of 1969-70, Washington finally overthrew Sihanouk in a coup in 1970. This was all that was needed to impel Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge forces to enter the fray. Five years later, they took power. But the years of American bombing had caused Cambodia's traditional economy to vanish. The old Cambodia had been destroyed forever. Incredibly, the Khmer Rouge were to inflict even greater misery upon this unhappy land. And to multiply the irony, the United States supported Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge after their subsequent defeat by the Vietnamese. 1957 - 1973 AMERICAN GENOCIDE OF THE LAOTIAN PEOPLE Estimated total civilian deaths: over 500,000 people The Laotian left, led by the Pathet Lao, tried to effect social change peacefully, making significant electoral gains and taking part in coalition governments. But the United States would have none of that. The CIA and the State Department, through force, bribery and other pressures, engineered coups in 1958, 1959 and 1960. Eventually, the only option left for the Pathet Lao was armed force. The CIA created its famous "Arme Clandestine" - totaling 30,000, from every corner of Asia - to do battle, while the US Air Force, between 1965 and 1973, rained down more than two million tons of bombs upon the people of Laos, many of whom were forced to live in caves for years in a desperate attempt to escape the monsters falling from the sky. After hundreds of thousands had been killed, many more maimed, and countless bombed villages with hardly stone standing upon stone, the Pathet Lao took control of the country, following on the heels of events in Vietnam. MID-1950S, 1970-71 AMERICAN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS ON THE ELECTED LEADER OF COSTA RICA From Rogue State To liberal American political leaders, President Jose Figueres was the quintessential "liberal democrat", the kind of statesman they liked to think, and liked the world to think, was the natural partner of US foreign policy rather than the military dictators who somehow kept popping up as allies. Yet the United States tried to overthrow Figueres (in the 1950s, and perhaps also in the 1970s, when he was again president), and tried to assassinate him twice. The reasons? Figueres was not tough enough on the left, led Costa Rica to become the first country in Central America to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and on occasion questioned American foreign policy, like the Bay of Pigs invasion. 1959 - PRESENT AMERICAN SUBVERSION AND STATE TERRORISM OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE From Killing Hope Fidel Castro came to power at the beginning of 1959. A U.S. National Security Council meeting of March 10, 1959 included on its agenda the feasibility of bringing "another government to power in Cuba."
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:18:48 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote:
ulysses wrote: Sucker: The National Intelligence Estimate offers a grim outlook on the continuing struggle in Iraq.
Yeah. I know. I've already read this. (What does it have to do with Saddam's coming trial?) The difference between you and I, however, is that I find the assessment to be food for sober thought (though I do not fear for an instant that America will back down from its mission to democratize Iraq), while YOU and your michaelmoore kind take gratuitous pleasure in it (as evidenced by your childish "Sucker" blurt). If scummy little people like you were not so corrosive, I'd feel sorry for you. ulysses
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 19:15:03 +0100, "D" <dontspam@hotbotmail.com> wrote:
Hang on, America HAS killed tens of thousands, and it's the reason why terrorist group members are swelling in numbers. Are you saying America is a malignant regime?
No, that's what Kerry/Kennedy says. ulysses
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:27:58 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote:
D wrote: A belligerant rouge state actually --
That's what John Kerry says! It's @$#*ing uncanny! ulysses
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:27:58 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote: That's what John Kerry says! It's @$#*ing uncanny!
Do us a favour Ulysses, go to your local gunsmith and see if they have one of these in stock, http://www.cyberium.net/imagine/S/weapons/surreal-pistol-2.jpg. If they have, buy it and use it.
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:59:37 +0100, "D" <dontspam@hotbotmail.com> wrote:
Do us a favour Ulysses, go to your local gunsmith and see if they have one of these in stock, http://www.cyberium.net/imagine/S/weapons/surreal-pistol-2.jpg. If they have, buy it and use it.
Yeah yeah. I got you anti-American assholes dead to rights. Go hang yourself. ulysses
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Saddam was an a-hole but he wasn't stupid! Sitting in Las Vegas, I know where they are. Doesn't take a high IQ to figure it out, but then your IQ appears to be in single digits! Iraqi WMDs Secretly Moved to Syria Just Before Operation Iraqi Freedom? Tension between Damascus and Washington have risen markedly since January when Dr. David Kay, who spearheaded the search for WMD in Iraq last year, told the London Telegraph, that "a lot of material went to Syria [from Iraq] before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program ... precisely what went to Syria and what has happened to it is a major issue that needs to be resolved." Just prior to Kay's interview, Syrian journalist Nizar Nayuf claimed to have knowledge of the locations of three sites within Syria storing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Nayuf, long recognized for his opposition to the al-Assad regime, recently escaped Syria to Western Europe. Map showing the locations of three Syrian sites storing Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, as provided by Syrian journalist Nizar Nayuf to the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. WMDs On The Move? Nayuf told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, that the three Syrian cities of al-Baida, Tal Snan, and Sjinsjar were hosting Iraqi WMDs. Nayaf claimed that Iraq's Special Republican Guard coordinated the transfer of weapons with Assif Shoakat - a cousin of Syrian President Assad and CEO of the Assad family-owned Bhaha Import-Export Company - just before the execution of Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to Agence France Presse (AFP), January 6, 2004. Western intelligence agencies have accused Syria of smuggling WMDs and extended-range Scud missiles out of Syria and into Sudan aboard commercial cargo flights in an effort to forestall their detection and a possible strike by U.S. or Israeli military forces. Sudanese President Omar Bashir has ordered the immediate removal of all Syrian weapons of mass destruction and Scud missiles from Sudan, according to the Middle East News Line (MENL), April 23, 2004. "There is widespread concern in the Syrian regime that Damascus will be the next to face heavy U.S. and international pressure to open its WMD facilities in the wake of the Libyan example .... the Syrians have decided that they want to take some of their assets out of the country," according to an unnamed intelligence source quoted in the MENL, April 8, 2004. Scud C and Scud D missiles, along with the WMD related components; have been arriving in Khartoum under the auspices of a new trade agreement between Syria Scud ballistic missile on transporter, erector, launcher vehicle (TEL). and Sudan. According to Western intelligence sources, ten commercial flights, chartered by the Syrian Defense Ministry, have flown every month since January with the illicit cargo labeled as medical supplies, reported Geostrategy- Direct, an online intelligence news service, April 15, 2004. Cooperation between Syrian and Sudan has increased over the years including Syrian assistance in Sudanese agricultural, food, and transportation from Syria. Motivated by the opportunity to improve relations with the United States, Bashir was anxious to demonstrate he was not cooperating with Syria and their WMD program. An unnamed U.S. intelligence official confirmed the Scud missile shipments to Sudan but said the intelligence community was unable to verify WMD components had also been shipped, MENL reported April 23, 2004.
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UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD before war and after WorldTribune.com 6/11/04 The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003. The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam's missile and WMD program. The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared. UNMOVIC acting executive chairman Demetrius Perricos told the council on June 9 that "the only controls at the borders are for the weight of the scrap metal, and to check whether there are any explosive or radioactive materials within the scrap," Middle East Newsline reported. "It's being exported," Perricos said after the briefing. "It's being traded out. And there is a large variety of scrap metal from very new to very old, and slowly, it seems the country is depleted of metal." "The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks," Perricos told the council. Perricos also reported that inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags. He said the Iraqi facilities were dismantled and sent both to Europe and around the Middle East. at the rate of about 1,000 tons of metal a month. Destionations included Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey. The Baghdad missile site contained a range of WMD and dual-use components, UN officials said. They included missile components, reactor vessel and fermenters - the latter required for the production of chemical and biological warheads. "It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for," Ewen Buchanan, Perricos's spokesman, said. "You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter. You can also use it to breed anthrax." The UNMOVIC report said Iraqi missiles were dismantled and exported to such countries as Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, an SA-2 surface-to-air missile, one of at least 12, was discovered in a junk yard, replete with UN tags. In Jordan, UN inspectors found 20 SA-2 engines as well as components for solid-fuel for missiles. "The problem for us is that we don't know what may have passed through these yards and other yards elsewhere," Buchanan said. "We can't really assess the significance and don't know the full extent of activity that could be going on there or with others of Iraq's neighbors." UN inspectors have assessed that the SA-2 and the short-range Al Samoud surface-to-surface missile were shipped abroad by agents of the Saddam regime. Buchanan said UNMOVIC plans to inspect other sites, including in Turkey. In April, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed El Baradei said material from Iraqi nuclear facilities were being smuggled out of the country. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "Ah yes, we must mollify angry fanatics who seek our destruction because otherwise .. they might get mad and seek our destruction." - Ann Coulter 26 Sep 2002
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Are these the WMD that never existed? By Andrew Bolt - 23 Apr 04 SO what really did happen to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction? Who knows - but let me tell you about some news from neighbouring Jordan that's been barely mentioned here. Three weeks ago Jordanian police said they'd found cars carrying explosives for an attack on American targets in their country. In later raids, they shot and caught more terrorists, many from Iraq. And last weekend, Jordan's King Abdullah, a Sandhurst-educated leader with a democratic streak, said that the plot his police had foiled was actually an al-Qaida operation involving chemical weapons and poison gas. "It was a major, major operation. It would have decapitated the government," he told the San Francisco Chronicle. Jordanian investigators told reporters "we found primary materials to make a chemical bomb which, if it had exploded, would have made nearly 20,000 deaths ... in an area of one square kilometre". The main target was not in fact American, but Jordan's intelligence services headquarters, with "deadly gas" to be used in simultaneous attacks on the prime minister's office and the American embassy. Funny that. Don't anti-war protesters tell us that al-Qaida is cross only with American allies and countries that cruelly "invaded" Iraq? Not so, it seems -- again. Jordan stayed right out of the war in Iraq. But the crucial question is where the 17.5 tonnes of explosives and chemicals for this attack came from. King Abdullah said they were smuggled in from Syria, but he was "completely confident" the Syrian President, Bashir Assad, "did not know about it". So here's a wild guess. Israeli intelligence has warned for a year that Saddam Hussein's regime hid some of its WMD in Syria just before the war. David Kay, who led the 1300 weapons searchers of the Iraq Survey Group after the war's end, told Congress last year that satellite surveillance had shown an unusual number of trucks crossing from Iraq into Syria at the time, and said they may have carried WMD. Others think he was too cautious. The news from Jordan is a hint that they may be right -- that Syria is hiding some of Saddam's WMD, or at least their raw materials. And, worse, that al-Qaida has found them, or had them all along.
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:15:56 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote: Although Saddam's wmd PROGRAMS remained quite active right up to the bitter end,
Actually there is no evidence of that. The most they found is low level research that was taking place. Hardly a imminent threat to the world.
and would no doubt have been kicked into high-yield production mode once France & Co. had managed to force a lifting of UN sanctions against the regime.
Probably would have. However, there is every indication that the US could have gotten security council approval if it had simply let the diplomatic process play out. Saddam was not going to meet the tests that were required of him, and even France and Germany understood that inspections could not go on forever.
Looking forward to the trial & execution of Left's dark >prince.
You realize you are talking about the same "dark prince" who shook hands and accepted gifts from the current Secretary of Defense. Jeremy Olson
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:28:31 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote: The drooling mantra of the michaelmoore Left.
Once you can back it up with facts, then you might have some credibility. and would no doubt have been kicked into high-yield production mode once You lie yet again. France & Co. had managed to force a lifting of UN sanctions against the regime. Looking forward to the trial & execution of Left's dark prince. It ain't going to happen. There's a better shot he'll be turned loose, and the suffering Iraqi's will re-elect him leader. Remember Marion Barry of D.C?
That is surely your fondest dream.
Ah, yes, the typical Republican thought process. If you don't like George Bush you must LOVE Saddam Hussein. I don't think even you are that stupid. Jeremy Olson
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:18:48 -0600, "S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote: Yeah. I know. I've already read this. (What does it have to do with Saddam's coming trial?) The difference between you and I, however, is that I find the assessment to be food for sober thought (though I do not fear for an instant that America will back down from its mission to democratize Iraq),
Nobody wants to back down. However, the problem with Bush is that he is persistant to a fault. Being steadfast in following failed policies is not a strength, or a favorable trait in a leader. Refusing to accept the inconvenient facts that are staring you in the face is the mark of someone who is weak, and too scared to admit they were wrong. The true test of leadership is seeing how one reacts when things DON'T go the way they were planned. Jeremy Olson
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Jeremy wrote:
Once you can back it up with facts, then you might have some credibility. and would no doubt have been kicked into high-yield production mode once You lie yet again. France & Co. had managed to force a lifting of UN sanctions against the regime. Looking forward to the trial & execution of Left's dark prince. It ain't going to happen. There's a better shot he'll be turned loose, and the suffering Iraqi's will re-elect him leader. Remember Marion Barry of D.C? Ah, yes, the typical Republican thought process. If you don't like George Bush you must LOVE Saddam Hussein. I don't think even you are that stupid. Jeremy Olson
???! Where ya been during your sabatical Jeremy? Did you go to Europe to have a brain transplant or spend your time on the Island of the Intelligent and Circumspect? It that really you posting, or did someone with at least 1/2 a brain and a modicum of morality hijack your nntp account?
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Jeremy wrote: ???! Where ya been during your sabatical Jeremy? Did you go to Europe to have a brain transplant or spend your time on the Island of the Intelligent and Circumspect? It that really you posting, or did someone with at least 1/2 a brain and a modicum of morality hijack your nntp account?
I see you still can't provide facts. Jeremy Olson
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Jeremy wrote:
I see you still can't provide facts.
How about those feedlots, eh Jeremy?
Jeremy Olson
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