11-06-2003, 01:01 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
This vexes me. I am terribly vexed.
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Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...dealtoavertwar
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11-06-2003, 01:58 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Sure, while they stonewalled the UN inspectors, they at the same time were going to let us do it?
Its called stalling. Saddam was offered a deal, leave Iraq.
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11-06-2003, 02:12 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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He had ample time (too much in my opinion) to accept our peace deal. He didn't, so we used the stick instead.
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11-06-2003, 02:16 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Am I the only one so paranoid to worry that everything from here on out is a trap?
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11-06-2003, 03:24 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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Who says that they don't have WMD's? The U.N. inspectors couldn't find them when he had them, why do you put it past him to build/acquire them when their gone?
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11-06-2003, 03:30 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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Lets make a deal Monty!!! Lets make a deal!!!!!!
Funny, when there are hundreds of thousands of troops building on his border he then wanted to talk. We gave him his options and he refused, we were not about to let him dictate how it was going to play out.
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11-06-2003, 04:20 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Now I was a supporter of the Iraqi action, but I think I would be disappointed if this turned out to be true and the admnistration didn't make a serious effort to pursue this avenue. I agree that Saddam had already screwed things up by expelling the weapons inspectors, but I think that we should hold ourselves to a higher standard... Our stated reason for regime change was primarily Iraqi WMD. If there was a possibility that we could have peacefully ascertained that there were or were not WMDs I'd like to think that it would have been pursued. Back-channel negotiations are nothing new - the article even points that out.
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11-06-2003, 04:36 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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why was it too late? is it ever too late to avert war? If there was even a chance that we could find a peaceful resolution, why wouldn't we take it? I thought one of the reasons for the building up of troops on the border was to put pressure on Saddam. If he was succumbing the pressure, wouldn't that be a good thing?
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11-06-2003, 06:33 PM | #12 (permalink) | |
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11-06-2003, 09:26 PM | #13 (permalink) | |
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And if the article is true, he did offer to allow american troops inside, so it wouldn't be so hard to prevent future Iraqi disobedience by force. |
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11-07-2003, 07:06 AM | #17 (permalink) | |
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11-07-2003, 07:16 AM | #18 (permalink) | |
This vexes me. I am terribly vexed.
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That, along with Saddam being part of 9/11 and us finding proof of WMD. Unfortunately most americans hold at least one of those misperceptions. |
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11-07-2003, 07:22 AM | #19 (permalink) | |
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11-07-2003, 07:44 AM | #20 (permalink) | |
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According to CNN they were in 1997. If you mean 2003, then I assume you are correct. They were withdrawn that time around. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9711/13/iraq.expel2/
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11-10-2003, 06:34 AM | #21 (permalink) |
This vexes me. I am terribly vexed.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/...in534132.shtml
Back in December 2002 General Amir al-Saadi - Iraq's top government scientist and a close advisor to Saddam Hussein - insisted that Iraq had no prohibited weapons and publicly invited the CIA to join the U.N. inspection teams. The Bush admin declined the offer. Hell, that is a major breakthrough, being able to get the CIA in there to verify for us. Why pass something like that up unless... you really don't want to avert war. I have a hard time believing that too, but there is mounting evidence. These two stories, plus Bush trying to implicate Iraq from the get go into 9/11. I can't help but believe that he has been pursuing real war, damn the diplomacy for over 2 years now. |
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