how about you actually deal with the point being discussed instead of spouting another load of spin.
On 3/17/06, Loathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about the violations of the cease fire? > > How about the UN resolutions allowing us to use force to enforce the > sanctions that were being violated? > > How about the attacks against American Aircraft? > > How about the fact that oil is actually of vital importance to the national > security of the United States? > > > -- > Tim Heald > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 703-300-3911 > -----Original Message----- > From: Wayne Putterill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 3:16 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Saddam Pretended to have Weapons to prevent Attack > > That's what blows all the "this means we were right to go in" arguments > apart. We had ways of finding out if he did have WMD and the UK and US > governments didn't let the people involved finish their work. > > On 3/17/06, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just a reminder the people on the ground, the UN inspectors who were > > in Iraq, and the IAEA always said that there were no WMD's. > > > > On 3/16/06, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When you have your own guys, plus other countries all agreeing that > > > they have them, then the risk factor seems within the bounds. > > > > > > If you try it and you turn out wrong, then people second guess, > > > which is good if it makes us better, but when the point is just to > > > belittle then it doesn't help anybody. > > > > > > Were mistakes made? Clearly. However I don't think they could have > > > done this any other way. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 7:13 PM > > > > To: CF-Community > > > > Subject: Re: Saddam Pretended to have Weapons to prevent Attack > > > > > > > > > Dino wrote: > > > > > Israel only attacked Iraq when they were building a nuclear > > > > > reactor > > > for > > > > the > > > > > express purpose of gaining nukes to attack Israel. > > > > > > > > Combine that with what gMoney said and you have: > > > > > > > > 1.) If we thought there was a threat, why didn't we just bomb the > > > > shit out of it w/o having to go in? Lame Answer: mobile labs. > > > > Apparently REALLY mobile. So mobile they don't exist. Which brings > us to ... > > > > > > > > 2.) Why don't we know how reliable our intelligence is? From the > > > > beginning the whole everybody-thought-blah-blah-blah strikes me as > > > > absolutely moronic. It's called risk management - I know they > > > > offer classes at HBS on the topic. Bush must've skipped them. > > > > Whenever you have intelligence you have a reliability factor on > > > > it. Either ours was low and we went in anyway or we haven't > > > > learned shit about intelligence in the last 50 years. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:200441 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
