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John Kerry, Bush's Advisor On Iraq | by DesertRat66 | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Did you even read that? | by tigermouse | 2004-03-17 07:41:53 |
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Did you? | by DesertRat66 | 2004-03-17 09:43:26 |
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Yes | by tigermouse | 2004-03-17 11:00:42 |
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So how long should we have allowed | by DesertRat66 | 2004-03-17 12:03:04 |
| Perhaps long enough for the inspectors to finish? |
by tigermouse |
2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
As Kerry said in your link, a case could be made for invasion after all else had failed, but the administration apparently didn't want to wait. And what does Libya have to do with whether or not the administratin oversold its case and rushed into war with Iraq? I could just as easily ask why things are progressing so poorly in North Korea, or why we are so hypocritical in our dealings with Pakistan, apparently the real font of nuclear proliferation.
George Tenet seems to believe the Niger documents were the ones referred to, and that it should have been removed.
Do you believe the rationale for war was based on the Iraqi weapons list, or rather on the evidence as presented by Colin Powell that they had undeclared weapons and weapons programs? Iraq claimed they destroyed all their weapons, and the administration had some confirmation of that from a defector.
The US government tried to block the inspections from beginning again in 2002 unless all US criteria were met, with one State Department official saying the US would go into "thwart mode" to keep Blix and the inspectors out of Iraq completely. They blocked them again after the war, though the US inspectors didn't seem to be having much luck.
I am also aware that the centrifuge had been buried for 12 years, and that the IAEA said it was not a "smoking gun" for any current program, but was evidence of the well-known and well-documented pre-1991 program, in which Iraq had tested one centrifuge: IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said "[t]he findings and comments of Obeidi appear to confirm that there has been no post-1991 nuclear weapons program in Iraq and are consistent with our reports to the [U.N.] Security Council."
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