Third Superpower

On the danger of Saddam using WMD that this person now maintains he didn’t have: bq. There is now no incentive for Hussein to comply with the inspectors or to refrain from using weapons of mass destruction to defend himself if the United States comes after him. And he will use them; we should be [...]

Today’s “speech(Al Gore Speech)”:http://radio.weblogs.com/0107946/stories/2004/06/24/alGoreSpeech.html by Al Gore sent me looking for some rebuttal text. I settled on these four. bq. In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the Government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively [...]

bq. Appearing on Meet the Press, Powell acknowledged–finally!–that he and the Bush administration misled the nation about the WMD threat posed by Iraq before the war. – “David Corn(Powell Admits False WMD Claim)”:http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?pid=1442 Okay, I admit it. There was never any WMD in Iraq. It was a lie perpetrated by the “Germans(Tehran to unveil plaque [...]

bq. It’s torture when they do it. It’s abuse when our guys do it. – “Xeni Jardin(What is torture?)”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/05/05/what_is_torture.html What other adjectives have been used lately? bq. People in Iraq need to understand that I view these practices as *abhorrent*. What took place in that prison does not represent America that I know. – “George [...]

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Dave wants to wants to “add a requirement that the interviews happen only in the place they’re talking about.” bq. When Vice-president Cheney says in a speech that if Kerry had had his way there would still be death squads in Iraq, if the subject came up in Reality Mode, he’d have to explain exactly [...]

bq. Iraq has the potential to serve as a training ground for the next generation of terrorists where novice recruits develop their skills, junior operatives hone their organizational and planning capabilities, and relations mature between individuals and groups as was the case during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and extremist operations in the Balkans, – [...]

Everyone agrees that, once upon a time, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. bq. On July 30, 1991, Ambassador Rolf Ekeus, director of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM), charged with overseeing the elimination of Iraq’s chemical and nuclear arsenals, told the Security Council that the U.N. inspectors had found chemical warheads armed [...]

bq. The Iraqis opted to play lip-service to compliance. They said that they would accept the provisions of the Security Council Resolution, yet at the same time they accepted it, in April, 1991, there were high-level meetings in which Iraq made strategic plans for concealing the existence of their entire biological weapons program, their entire [...]

bq. Dean cited a report from the Army War College that found that Saddam Hussein did not pose a threat to the United States and that the war was a distraction from the real threat of terror facing America; a report by the Carnegie Endowment that found no link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda; [...]