Yea dammit - why the hell didn't we just let all those people continue to
be tortured.  Nice that Blix is able to make such definitive statements in
a complete vacuum of information to support it.

At 06:30 PM 9/17/2003, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>In the category of more venom spewed from a liberal, effete, nattering pinko
>press, the AP is reporting George "W.M.D." Bush as saying today that Saddam
>had no link to 9/11 -- after leading 70% of the American public for two
>years to
>believe that he did. In a similar vein, Hans Blix, the UN weapons inspector,
>also said today that Iraq almost certainly destroyed its weapons of mass
>destruction 10 years ago. And a few days ago the former chief of Central
>Command,
>Gen. Anthony Zinni, compared the current Iraq situation to the "lies and
>garbage" of Vietnam.
>
>As for the stated reasons for the war, well, nevermind. None of them turned
>out to be true. But it was a good war nonetheless and it's only going to cost
>us a couple hundred billion more dollars. But we've got Saddam and Osama right
>where we want them.
>
>But the bottom line is that none of this matters now. We now have no choice
>but to stay for at least a year or two more and see this through to the
>end. If
>we were to leave now, we will leave a failed state that truly will be a
>breeding ground for anti-Western terrorism.
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
>======================================
>
>Bush Says No of Evidence Saddam, 9/11 Link
>By TERENCE HUNT, AP
>
>WASHINGTON (Sept. 17) - President Bush said Wednesday there was no evidence
>that Saddam Hussein was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -
>disputing an idea held by many Americans...
>
>Yet, a new poll found that nearly 70 percent of respondents believed the
>Iraqi leader probably was personally involved. Rumsfeld said, "I've not
>seen any
>indication that would lead me to believe that I could say that."
>
>=======================================
>
>Blix Says Iraq Probably Destroyed WMDs
>
>The Associated Press
>
>SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix
>believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10
>years ago,
>but kept up the appearance that it had them to deter a military attack.
>
>In an interview with an Australian radio station broadcast Wednesday, Blix
>said it was unlikely that the U.S and British teams now searching for
>weapons in
>Iraq would find more than some ``documents of interest.''
>
>``I'm certainly more and more to the conclusion that Iraq has, as they
>maintained, destroyed all, almost, of what they had in the summer of
>1991,'' Blix
>told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
>
>``The more time that has passed, the more I think it's unlikely that anything
>will be found.''
>
>Blix indicated he thought the U.S.-led coalition had backtracked on the issue
>of Iraq's weapons.
>
>``In the beginning they talked about weapons concretely, and later on they
>talked about weapons programs. Maybe they'll find some documents of
>interest,''
>he said.
>
>=======================================
>
>Ret. General Zinni Criticizes Bush's Postwar Policy
>Washington Post
>
>By: Thomas Ricks
>
>Date: 09/05/2003
>
>A former U.S. commander for the Middle East who still consults for the State
>Department yesterday blasted the Bush administration's handling of postwar
>Iraq, saying it lacked a coherent strategy, a serious plan and sufficient
>resources.
>"There is no strategy or mechanism for putting the pieces together," said
>retired Marine Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, and so, he said, "we're in danger of
>failing."
>
>In an impassioned speech to several hundred Marine and Navy officers and
>others, Zinni invoked the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in the 1960s and
>'70s. "My contemporaries, our feelings and sensitivities were forged on the
>battlefields of Vietnam, where we heard the garbage and the lies, and we
>saw the
>sacrifice," said Zinni, who was severely wounded while serving as an infantry
>officer in that conflict. "I ask you, is it happening again?"
>
>Zinni's comments were especially striking because he endorsed President Bush
>in the 2000 campaign, shortly after retiring from active duty, and serves as
>an adviser to the State Department on anti-terror initiatives in Indonesia and
>the Philippines. He preceded Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks as chief of the U.S.
>Central Command, the headquarters for U.S. military operations in Iraq and
>elsewhere in the Middle East.
>
>This was not the first time he has broken with the administration. He was
>publicly skeptical last winter of the decision to attack Iraq.
>
>Underscoring how much his views have changed since 2000, he implied that the
>Bush administration is now damaging the U.S. military in the way that Bush and
>Vice President Cheney during that campaign charged that the Clinton
>administration had done. "We can't go on breaking our military and doing
>things like
>we're doing now," he said.
>
>He also questioned the Bush administration's decision in January to have the
>Pentagon oversee postwar efforts in Iraq. "Why the hell would the Department
>of Defense be the organization in our government that deals with the
>reconstruction of Iraq?" he asked. "Doesn't make sense."
>
>In addition, he criticized the administration for not working earlier and
>harder to win a U.N. resolution that several nations have indicated is a
>prerequisite to their contributing peacekeeping troops to help in Iraq.
>"We certainly
>blew past the U.N.," he said. "Why, I don't know. Now we're going back hat in
>hand."
>
>Zinni's comments to the joint meeting in Arlington of the U.S. Naval
>Institute and the Marine Corps Association, two professional groups for
>officers, were
>greeted warmly by his audience, with prolonged applause at the end. Some
>officers bought tapes and compact discs of the speech to give to others.
>
>=======================================
>
>* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
>* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *


Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *