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"Let's not forget, too, that since the first Gulf War Sodamn Insane had been pinned down by no-fly zones in the north and south swaths of Iraq; had UN inspectors turning the country upside down; and endured severe trade sanctions. All this over a twelve-year span. How was Sodamn Insane going to develop new weapons and more to the point, how the hell was he going to deliver them? The unreasonable fears of the Bush/Cheney cabal smacks of the fears of Vietnamese Sampans attacking the American West Coast." -- Airborne855
Of course, you moonbats have never heard of the Battle of Irbil. Irbil was in the northern no-fly zone, yet Saddam was able to march 30,000 troops into that city in 1996, take it over, and install his own man. The U.S. and U.N. did nothing (well, Clinton did order the bombing of targets in SOUTHERN Iraq.) So, obviously, the no-fly zones did not pin down Saddam.
And, again, Saddam did not cooperate with the inspectors prior to the invasion.
"More revealing are Blix’s difficulties with the Iraqis. Time and again he and his colleague Mohamed ElBaradei tried to explain to the Iraqis that they needed to cooperate for the inspections to confirm what they claimed—that they had no weapons of mass destruction. After repeated requests to talk to Saddam Hussein, which were turned down, Blix and ElBaradei met with the Iraqi vice president (a powerless Hussein stooge). At that meeting, ElBaradei sternly explained that it was ‘‘incomprehensible’’ that Iraq had not taken the steps the United Nations had demanded. There was no response….It was be-havior like this that led Blix and many others to assume that the Iraqis were not coming clean because they had something to hide."
http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/nyt/nytreview041104.html
Those of us who have actually studied this issue for more than a decade can only shake our heads in amazement at what is on this web site. You have complete fools such as Joan "Horseface" Walsh making it up as she goes and then you have all these little Salon myrmidons mimicking his nonsense and proving with each new post that they have no idea what they're talking about. This is nothing less than the Internet version of the "two minutes of hate."
