Wot no WMDs?

[grobelaar]

Was just thinking today as I saw the pictures of liberated Iraqis pulling down statues of Saddam, well the ones that the US forces haven't already shot with their tanks in moments of sheer enthusiasm (notice in the news how they are careful, to leave the US Marine Engineers crane just out of shot).

Any way, given the highly visual nature of the war and how much stock the US seem to put into visual statements - even to the point of mounting raids with no other purpose that driving their tanks around Iraqi landmarks and monuments, I was thinking what a great parting shot it would, how beautifully ironic it would have been if Saddam has stored his chemical and biological warfare agents in...

well the statues themselves... ha ha ha... :) Sadly it seems that Saddam does indeed not have any WMDs leaving the coalition forces, scraping around some old barrels like that desperate man trying to scrape together that last line off the mirror at the end of a party...

[$eye]

grobs you write like a king.

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by $eye
grobs you write like a king.

Cheers bro... :-)

[Yer_Maw]

:)

thank fuck its over, now i can read newspapers again.

[M H]

Originally posted by Yer_Maw
:)

thank fuck its over, now i can read newspapers again.


Forgive me if I'm wrong but wern't you very PRO war in the discussions leading up to the conflict??


I personally feel that it's all far from over, and we have sowed the seed for what is to come over the next few years, which is going to make 9/11 look like a fuckin tea party

[Yer_Maw]

oh yeah i was. still am. but i was interested in the arguments leading up to it and i will be interested to hear the arguments after. i was sickened by the TOTAL coverage it recieved during it. what ever happened to "and in other news today <other relevent things>". i mean there a scottish election coming up.

one good thing that came out of the news coverage. the americans wingeing about al jazerra. they just couldnt hack it that a news organisation could play them at their own game but be on the other side. yas!

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

Pro-war or not - I'm sure you can get bored of 24/7 media analysis.

[igniop]

I personally feel that it's all far from over, and we have sowed the seed for what is to come over the next few years, which is going to make 9/11 look like a fuckin tea party

yup, the fun part havnt started yet!

[M H]

Roi, is that you?

[igniop]

the devil himself :)

[Loz]

An Iraqi on Question Time last night raised a very good point.

Baghdad has a population of well over a million people.. and yet we only saw a couple of hundred people cheering.

Is it me, or is there something amiss about this?

[grobelaar]

The Iraqis have had many decades of dancing to the tune of the Information Minister, I'm sure dancing for some CNN reporters ain't any different - and hell I bet they even get free sticks of gum and seamed nylons from the liberating Marines - just like back in WWII...

[grobelaar]

Oh yeah, and that Iraqi Information Minister - he should definitely be granted a pardon and given a prime time TV show - top class entertainment - great screen prescence, he can take over from Matthew Kelly and do the new series of Stars in their Eyes - don't worry we got rid of the kiddy fiddler and replaced him with a bonafide Human Rights Abuser instead... :-)

So as you can see there's lots to look forward to in the aftermath of liberation - where's my Sky subscription...

[gunjack]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/08/wsyria08.xml

Syria now top US target for 'regime change'
By Toby Harnden in Washington
(Filed: 08/04/2003)

One of the main subjects on the agenda of the Belfast summit was Syria, the Pentagon's next likely target for "regime change" amid suspicions it allowed Saddam Hussein to transfer weapons of mass destruction within its borders.

[grobelaar]

Ho ho, on the radio this morning - the fiercest fighting of the war so has gone unreported and is taking place on the border of Syria, where British Commandos and US Special Forces are taking on fierce Iraqi Republican Guard. It is suspected that the Iraqi are fighting so hard because they are defending Scud Missiles with potential chemical weapon capability - oh how convenient... that the chemicals weapons should turn up in some unknown backwater, in a position of no tactical advantage other than give the allies an excuse to mass troops on the Iraq/Syrian border...

Oh and conveniently brings a close the chemical weapon debate, which I bet they say were destroyed in incendiary airstrikes.

More convenient than a convenient thing on convenience day at the international conference on convenience...

[alex cortex]

iraquis def have WMD...

[Mirsha]

Originally posted by grobelaar
The Iraqis have had many decades of dancing to the tune of the Information Minister, I'm sure dancing for some CNN reporters ain't any different - and hell I bet they even get free sticks of gum and seamed nylons from the liberating Marines - just like back in WWII...
http://www2.bc.edu/~lopesg/target/ps/whatinvasion.jpg

[grobelaar]

...interesting...

http://www.uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=62813&group=webcast

[Yer_Maw]

weird.