Originally Posted by Dukat (Post 4368555)

On a sidenote: This is were the mischief peaked. This was when old europe and the states clashed. The U.S. intelligence came up with these vague assumptions that tended to increase in weight the longer others were not convinced. And the british intelligence was fed with false information by the states. (The british being involved is a different story and comes to light if you look at the greater scale of british policy during the past centuries, being indepted to the States.)


In January 2003, United Nations weapons inspectors reported that they had found no indication that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons or an active program. Some former UNSCOM inspectors disagree about whether the United States could know for certain whether or not Iraq had renewed production of weapons of mass destruction. Robert Gallucci said, "If Iraq had [uranium or plutonium], a fair assessment would be they could fabricate a nuclear weapon, and there's no reason for us to assume we'd find out if they had." Similarly, former inspector Jonathan Tucker said, "Nobody really knows what Iraq has. You really can't tell from a satellite image what's going on inside a factory."

See, so the positions and conclusions of the U.N. were similar to german or french intelligence reports.

And on the basis of that, german foreign minister adressed Mr. Rumsfeld: "Excuse me, I am not convinced".

That is quiet contrary to your statement.

Originally Posted by Gen'l Knight (Post 4368551)

As far as WMDs - they still exist somewhere in the Arab world IMHO.

Originally Posted by Gen'l Knight (Post 4368551)

As far as WMDs - they still exist somewhere in the Arab world IMHO.

Originally Posted by Seth_Soldier (Post 4368520)

I didn't see a lot of professionnalism from american journalist during the anti-french campaign.

Originally Posted by Admiral Donutz (Post 4368633)

:rofl: I guess only two nations ( A and I) may have them ? We all know that the middle east, "commie" countries and such are all evil and plotting to destroy us. :o

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Originally Posted by Lobo (Post 4368590)

Speaking with you I feel like Galileo Galilei in front of the priests of the Inquisition Tribunal...the goddamned Earth spins around the Sun, cojones!

Originally Posted by Lobo (Post 4368490)

rly

Care to enlight me about your background about the issue?, it's just to know if you are an intellectual authority about the subject, you know?, lately everybody thinks that knows about everything, just with the reading of some fancy blogs.

The immortal Robert Capa said a journalist must always take side, and God knows he did, near the victims, against evilness. Disagree?