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2003-02-10 Europe

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Posted by Steve White 2003-02-10 01:14 am|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11141 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 email login: no@body.com
password: nobody

Posted by Anonymous 2003-02-10 01:43:22|| 2003-02-10 01:43:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I remember reading in the British intelligence report that torture is illegal in Iraq. Look how well that law works!

Which means one of 2 things:

1. Either the person suggesting the law against WMD's hasn't bothered to read the report, which is a major part of the issue, in which case that willfully-ignorant person does not belong in any kind of descision-making capacity regarding Iraq...

2. Or the person is perfectly well aware that Iraq's government ignores its own laws, and is cynically proposing the law as a decietful way to get political cover for a sociopathic, murderous tyrant.

My personal theory is 3: Both of the above.

Posted by Ryan Waxx 2003-02-10 05:14:04|| 2003-02-10 05:14:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Here's a link to the map.

Doesn't look Unilateral to me...

Posted by Ptah 2003-02-10 07:29:52|| 2003-02-10 07:29:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve, I must take issue with one of your comments: Pollyanna was a damn lot more effective than Blix ever was, is, or will be. Don't insult the girl with such a demeaning comparison...

Posted by Ptah 2003-02-10 07:33:51|| 2003-02-10 07:33:51|| Front Page Top

#5 "A senior Iraqi official, Lt Gen Amer Al-Saadi, said that Iraq had "looked at the problem" of U2 flights "in a constructive way" and had refused to allow them unless America and Britain suspended patrols in the no-fly zones."

Ok, Abdul, here's a solution to your "problem":

We fly the U2's whenever and wherever we want, and you STFU and keep your pissant airforce grounded if you don't want them shot down.

How's that?

Posted by mojo 2003-02-10 12:10:14|| 2003-02-10 12:10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Blix is shooting down the French-German plan:

The principal problem is not the number of inspectors but rather the active co-operation of the Iraqi side, as we have said many times," Mr Blix said in Athens, after his 11th-hour visit to Baghdad this weekend.

(Insert Nelson Muntz noise here.)

Posted by someone 2003-02-10 14:27:40|| 2003-02-10 14:27:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Ouch! Nice backbone Hans! He's been returning to the vertebrate category - mirror opposite of the Franco/German retrogressing

Posted by Frank G 2003-02-10 18:27:22|| 2003-02-10 18:27:22|| Front Page Top

#8 What this inquiring mind wants to know is who leaked it and why?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-02-10 21:31:18|| 2003-02-10 21:31:18|| Front Page Top

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