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Ttrryosborn on "HANS BLIX on IRAQI WMDS: Jan. 29, 2003"

Ttrryosborn — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:59:51 +0000

brolly, Perhaps you should read MORE about David Kay. He was a UN weapons investigators. His inspections convinced him the Iraqis were hiding WMD. The Bush Administration believed him. Kay cited faulty intelligence, not Bush personally, for the misiniformation about WMD. His inspection of Iraq after the invasion found some biological research going on in violation of UN mandates. They were not yet weaponized. Kay thought Saddam a very dangerous man, capable of restarting his WMD programs. In 2004, despite the lack of actual WMD, he still supported the decision to invade.

brolly3 on "HANS BLIX on IRAQI WMDS: Jan. 29, 2003"

brolly3 — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 02:10:54 +0000

Kwatt - Twatt. Read David Kay, Bush's own man.

HANS BLIX on IRAQI WMDS: Jan. 29, 2003,

kwatt — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:05:23 +0000

This was Blix's position six weeks before the war began. Surprised, lefties? Hans Blix addressing the UN, January, 2003. Chemical Weapons The document indicates that 13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and 1988, while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6,500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1,000 tonnes. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, we must assume that these quantities are now unaccounted for. The discovery of a number of 122 mm chemical rocket warheads in a bunker at a storage depot 170 km southwest of Baghdad was much publicized. This was a relatively new bunker and therefore the rockets must have been moved there in the past few years, at a time when Iraq should not have had such munitions. Read the rest of this post...