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As a foreigner, I've been reading the messages of this thread for some days now. I didn't wish to interfere in your different points of view. And some of you were mourning the former president.
But I must admit that Sir Stonesalot is completely right on this issue. I think that a lot of Europeans would agree with him.
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UN inspectors: Saddam shipped out WMD before war and after
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Friday, June 11, 2004
The United Nations has determined that Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against Iraq in 2003.
The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the Security Council on new findings that could help trace the whereabouts of Saddam's missile and WMD program.
The briefing contained satellite photographs that demonstrated the speed with which Saddam dismantled his missile and WMD sites before and during the war. Council members were shown photographs of a ballistic missile site outside Baghdad in May 2003, and then saw a satellite image of the same location in February 2004, in which facilities had disappeared.
UNMOVIC acting executive chairman Demetrius Perricos told the council on June 9 that "the only controls at the borders are for the weight of the scrap metal, and to check whether there are any explosive or radioactive materials within the scrap," Middle East Newsline reported.
"It's being exported," Perricos said after the briefing. "It's being traded out. And there is a large variety of scrap metal from very new to very old, and slowly, it seems the country is depleted of metal."
"The removal of these materials from Iraq raises concerns with regard to proliferation risks," Perricos told the council. Perricos also reported that inspectors found Iraqi WMD and missile components shipped abroad that still contained UN inspection tags.
He said the Iraqi facilities were dismantled and sent both to Europe and around the Middle East. at the rate of about 1,000 tons of metal a month. Destionations included Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey.
The Baghdad missile site contained a range of WMD and dual-use components, UN officials said. They included missile components, reactor vessel and fermenters – the latter required for the production of chemical and biological warheads.
"It raises the question of what happened to the dual-use equipment, where is it now and what is it being used for," Ewen Buchanan, Perricos's spokesman, said. "You can make all kinds of pharmaceutical and medicinal products with a fermenter. You can also use it to breed anthrax."
The UNMOVIC report said Iraqi missiles were dismantled and exported to such countries as Jordan, the Netherlands and Turkey. In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, an SA-2 surface-to-air missile, one of at least 12, was discovered in a junk yard, replete with UN tags. In Jordan, UN inspectors found 20 SA-2 engines as well as components for solid-fuel for missiles.
"The problem for us is that we don't know what may have passed through these yards and other yards elsewhere," Buchanan said. "We can't really assess the significance and don't know the full extent of activity that could be going on there or with others of Iraq's neighbors."
UN inspectors have assessed that the SA-2 and the short-range Al Samoud surface-to-surface missile were shipped abroad by agents of the Saddam regime. Buchanan said UNMOVIC plans to inspect other sites, including in Turkey.
In April, International Atomic Energy Agency director-general Mohammed El Baradei said material from Iraqi nuclear facilities were being smuggled out of the country.
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| Bloozehound |
heres the link - an interestig read non the less
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_1.html |
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| sirmoonie |
Amazing Howard Carter like find, Bloozie. You read the stuff that you moof and paste, I assume?
Here was one of my favorite Reagan pics.
My other two I can't find. One was him walking with Gorby and it looks like Ronnie is trying to tell Gorby "No! You aren't listening. I'm telling you, you need to get a grip on this commie shit before it blows the whole smoke! Tell those Politburo fucks whatever, just get on the groove train or we got some serious fucking issues, Mick!"
The other was after Challenger blew up. Reagan just threw every political hat off when he was consoling the families. True and deep concern. Great presidential moment. Long time ago, but I remember it well. Pride in what America could accomplish.
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Amazing Howard Carter like find, Bloozie. You read the stuff that you moof and paste, I assume?
Here was one of my favorite Reagan pics.
My other two I can't find. One was him walking with Gorby and it looks like Ronnie is trying to tell Gorby "No! You aren't listening. I'm telling you, you need to get a grip on this commie shit before it blows the whole smoke! Tell those Politburo fucks whatever, just get on the groove train or we got some serious fucking issues, Mick!"
The other was after Challenger blew up. Reagan just threw every political hat off when he was consoling the families. True and deep concern. Great presidential moment. Long time ago, but I remember it well. Pride in what America could accomplish.
"Help me, help help me, Ronnie!"
Having withdrawls from the crack tonight moon ?
Like the song says paranoia will destroyoia... |
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Did you runout of crack tonite, moon ?
Ahhh Bleed, see? Thats fucked up bitch, blamming shots at another man's jones. Yeah, maybe I got a little high on white and maybe I did chisel down early than I wanted to. Still don't make me what you is - some chronic bedwetting, moy poloy, Triscuit-built hoover boy on high power, with mauve socks. You can go fuck yourself, ya string-cheese head mothefucker! |
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Ahhh Bleed, see? Thats fucked up bitch, blamming shots at another man's jones. Yeah, maybe I got a little high on white and maybe I did chisel down early than I wanted to. Still don't make me what you is - some chronic bedwetting, moy poloy, Triscuit-built hoover boy on high power, with mauve socks. You can go fuck yourself, ya string-cheese head mothefucker!
don't get mad moon |
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...stay in control....
...and there's a little yellow man on my bed....
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don't get mad moon
I'll pour soy sauce all over your feet and make you lick the sidewalk, ya hupple skunking bag of fish entrails! You stink like a fucking Gary, Indiana Holiday Inn, ya fucking jackass! |
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I'll pour soy sauce all over your feet and make you lick the sidewalk, ya hupple skunking bag of fish entrails! You stink like a fucking Gary, Indiana Holiday Inn, ya fucking jackass!
 
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Dude! Bloozie. One of ours just passed. Just read it now. He was a Gasland reg more than here, I think. Great guy, Tracey G. RIP. Sadness, right now.
http://www.keno.org/gasland/get.asp?M=113644&P=0&T=113644 |
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damn man,
didn't really know him, but TG seemed to be a class dude - read his post last night - made me sad - reminded me of a friend of mine who passed away from Leukemia once - that cancer seems to be gettin us all these days no matter what our petty differnces - we all end up in the same place - rip TG
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some chronic bedwetting, moy poloy, Triscuit-built hoover boy on high power, with mauve socks. You can go fuck yourself, ya string-cheese head mothefucker!
gonna have to dust off my moonrakedecoder ring to decipher this one tomorrow lo0l
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