On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:55:43 -0500, wrote:

Cliff wrote:

Cliff, just how many hot buttons do you have?

Found those "WMDs" yet?

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/694668.html

Hussein made the above statement at a meeting with leaders of the
Ba'ath Party, said Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali,
to American interrogators. Ali was in charge of using chemical weapons
against the Kurdish forces at the end of the 1980s.

I kind of forget .. what were the UN's inspectors saying? Just before the
shrubbie tossed them out just before the UN lifted the sanctions
(or was about to)?

And now you want to blame Israel for the shrubbie's stupidity & lies?

"According to Chemical Ali, Hussein was asked about the weapons during
a meeting with members of the Revolutionary Command Council. He
replied that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) but
flatly rejected a suggestion that the regime remove all doubts to the
contrary," the report states. Ali explained that such a declaration
could encourage Israel to attack, the report says.

The 100-page report has not been released yet, but some 9,000 words of
it are to appear in the next edition of Foreign Affairs Magazine.

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--
Cliff