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Originally posted by SLM3
Well, as many have pointed out, no one is innocent here. France, Russia, and China played their hand trying to keep the war from happening, and now that it's all out in the open they're probably just as eager to keep things under wraps as the US.
Actually, from what I gather it was the US that lead the way towards the censorship but all the permanent members supported it as well.
SLM3
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You'll have to forgive me, I'm still trying to figure this out. You're telling me to believe proof that refutes Endymon32's evidence in which neither you nor I have seen, in which the reporting agency (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) has apparently not shared with anyone, in which the reporting agency was in a virulently anti-liberation democratic country and thus would not be suppressed, in which the primary benefactor was the censor, in which the primary opponents had copies of the uncensored version and did not see fit to protest.
This proof contradicts Endymon32's fact book that merely listed numbers, makes, and models of Iraq's military forces, and a separate SIPRI report that tabulates the total amount of arms sales to Iraq from 1973-1991, which I was able to partially correlate with additional, publicly available data (see below).
You know, I'm absolutely willing to believe either of you two. I try hard to be open-minded. But in order for me to do that, I need more information, more than a flimsy conspiracy theory about a censored WMD report that was then further censored by the majority anti-liberation world press. It just doesn't add up.
-- Alvin
P.S. The SIPRI report was apparently performed on data available long before the censored dossier -- a second $5 million of weapons claim was also published in 1998 by Anthony Cordesman, long before the WMD dossier