Guest pogue mahone Posted January 25, 2004 Report Share Posted January 25, 2004 iraq has no arms caches quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think there were stockpiles at the end of the first Gulf War [...] a combination of U.N. inspectors and unilateral Iraqi action got rid of them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's got a ring of familiarity about it . . . oh yes, that's right. It's exactly what opponents of the war had confidently stated all along, backed up by the UNSCOM inspectors who were withdrawn in 1998, and by, er, colin powell Meanwhile, an odd statement from The Guardian: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Kay's] suggestion that Saddam had no illegal weapons means Saddam was involved in a gigantic bluff to shore up his international prestige. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So the way to bluff everyone into thinking you've got all these weapons you haven't actually got is to, presumably, repeatedly say that you haven't got them, which is what Saddam Hussein did. Yes, you can see how Bush and Blair fell for something so fiendish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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