Colin Powell in Feb 2001 was quoted as saying that Iraq posed "no
threat" to its neighbors. And posessed no WMDs
Condaleeza (sp?) Rice in July 2001 the same
Cheney and Rumsfeld too that same year.
Larry C. Lyons wrote:
> Now let me get this straight. The Iraqi army was slowly
> disintegrating. It could no longer threaten the surrounding countries,
> much less invade them. By the time we invaded Iraq, the Iraqi army was
> barely able to control their own country. About 1/3rd of Iraq was
> already beyond Saddam's control - the Kurdistan region was autonomous
> and the Sh'iite region to the south was in the no-fly zone. Over 50%
> of the armour was inoperable, all but a few of the Iraqi air force was
> grounded, and the Iraqi navy's 2 patrol boats had already sunk at
> their docs because of lack of maintenance and parts.
>
> He needed to be stopped? Hell he wasn't going anywhere, and his regime
> was tottering already. He had no real connections to Al Queda - in
> fact given the ideologies behind Al Queda and the Ba'athist Party,
> they were natural enemies.
--
will
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true;
and that would just be unacceptable."
-- Carrie Fisher
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