War Day 13

Of course Baghdad residents are still loyal to Saddam. His crew still controls the city.

 

Basra seems to have an underground chemical plant full with chems, chem suits and tunnels. No wonder they have been defending it so much. Details soon, we hope.

Let us not forget how these chemical weapons are stored. In fact, actual weapons might not be found. Iraq seems to store chemicals and the storage "facility" could very well be a mobile unit, like a semitruck. They make weapons (weaponize the chemicals?) as needed.

The facilites they find will show evidence, and maybe not actual weapons.

 

3rd Inf Div. engages the Republican Guard.

Kurdish/US force rout and captureAnsar al-Islam members and their training camps.

Via The Agonist, Geraldo told to exit stage right

 

Re: Re: War Day 13

Is that the same semi that was driving around the American western states a month ago?

I know, maybe the Iraqis have stored their WMDs on a "death ship"!

 

Kill the messenger!

I thought NPR was one of those "good" sources?
Oh yea, the reporter should have said, "Iraq has this mobile chemical storage truck...die muthafuckas!"

 

Which is exactly why we think they do = evidence of WMD. Why waste the money on suits if they know we don't have bio or chemical weapons?

 

Who says we don't?

Anyway, does the fact that the Iraqis have helmets to protect their troops automatically "prove" that they were planning to invade us? The fact is that only a moron would send his troops into battle without full gear for every conceivable situation.

If Saddam REALLY wanted to screw Bush over, he'd have already destroyed whatever WMDs he may still have. It would be extremely embarrassing for the Bushies if after the shooting stops no WMDs are found. Given that, politically speaking, Iraqi WMDs must be found, I have no doubts they will be "found" regardless of what Saddam has done. It's best that real Iraqi WMDs be found authentically, of course, and there's every chance that this will happen but given the stakes involved, I have no doubts that the Bush team would pull a LAPD and plant some if they can't find any on their own.

 

I have no doubt you'll spew this when we do find WMD.

 

Reading Is Fundamental

Tell me, what part of "It's best that real Iraqi WMDs be found authentically, of course, and there's every chance that this will happen" did you not understand? I deliberately tried to keep that phrase as monosyllabic as possible for people like you, ya know.

 

If he had done this, just think of how many Iraqi lives he would have saved -- including possibly his own.

 

How? Bush would still have invaded on some pretext or other.

 

Iraq gets nasty

http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/314278|oddlyenough|03-31-2003::08:32|reuters.html

Them are fightin' words!

 

Exactly. Whether you're Clinton or Bush or Nader, if you start a war justified by your enemy having WMDs, you'd damn well better turn up some WMDs after the shooting stops. Period.

That's the political reality operating now. To not recognize this would be extremely naive.

 

Re: Iraq gets nasty

Comedy gold!

 

Three British soldiers sent home after protesting at civilian deaths

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,925984,00.html

Three British soldiers in Iraq have been ordered home after objecting to the conduct of the war. It is understood they have been sent home for protesting that the war is killing innocent civilians.

(...)

But it is understood that the three soldiers have been sent home for complaining about the way the war is being fought and the growing danger to civilians.

It is also causing concern to British military chiefs who are worried about growing evidence of civilians being killed in fighting involving American soldiers around urban areas in southern Iraq.

 

Doubtful. I don't think he could have because public opinion would not have been with him.

 

On a more positive note.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&e=25&u=/nm/20030331/ts_nm/iraq_shatra_dc_2

 

Operation names.

The British have a lot better codenames for operations than the Americans.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...i_ea/war_british_code_names&cid=540&ncid=1478

 

Arnett was a dirtbag before - and remains that way.

Many have said that the chem/bio was with the Republican guard and is within a 60 mile radius of Baghdad.

Who cares about the market? The market hates uncertainty.


Of course Iraqi citizens are loyal to Saddam - you would be too with a gun in the back of your daughter. And the press does not have free rein in roaming around Baghdad.

Most important point of the day : the 4th ID is starting to arrive and unload.

 

Yet there is no doubt whatsoever that Saddam had WMDs. Whether we find them or not is a different issue.