Posted on 03/12/2006 10:29:27 PM PST by smoothsailing
Quote taken from the speech to the nation by Bill Clinton on December 16, 1998.
WMD ping
I keep hearing of these satellite photos of trailer truck convoys going into Syria just before the American invasion .Why cant we see these photos?
They're classified, of course.
I see that someone said the photos are classified.
That's not quite correct. Colin Powell showed them to the UN Security Council in the fall of 2002 and they were viewed on live television.
This made for a nice front-page headline while browsing at the local 7-11 this morning.
That doesn't mean that they aren't still classified.
In many cases, the classification depends on the resolution of the photograph. A low resolution version might not be classified, but a high resolution version will almost certainly be, if only for the fact that the degree of resolution reveals as much about our capabilities as they do about the actual subject of the photo.
Pictures of trucks don't mean much unless you also have pictures of identifiable material being loaded into the trucks or being unloaded at the destination. In the months leading up to the invasion, you can be darn well sure we were doing every possible form of satellite surveillance of Iraq. The pictures we would really want to see almost certainly exist and are guaranteed to be classified. Powell would have never had these photos at the UN.
Having said all that, always remember-this is the government. Logic need not apply.
Which, BTW, is an act of war in most people's eyes. Just MHO.
That's true.
When does this white house start playing the tapes of Yariq Aziz spilling his guts on everything Sadam was up to.This slow dip info could take years.Aziz knows it all.Get him front and center before the msm and be done with it.
dems are slowing fanning their fingertips on their bottom, drooling lip:
Dems: "Oh yeah? Well whadabout Cheney shootin' that guy in Texas!!! Impeach him! :)
Then something happened that Col. McMaster had not planned for: Politicians in Baghdad forced a delay of three more days, apparently concerned about civilian casualties.
Ware says to the soldiers, he was with it looked like the delay gave al Qaeda time to escape.
"The al Qaeda presence in Tal Afar was surrounded. And the attack was primed. And then it was stopped dead in its tracks. And so, as the troops I was with battled throughout the day and into the night with al Qaeda fighters so close you could throw a stone and hit them, when we woke up the next morning poof they were gone!" says Ware.
This is why Iraq is a mess, and because of politicians it is why we havent won a real "war" since ww2.
"This is why Iraq is a mess, and because of politicians it is why we havent won a real "war" since ww2."
Not sure why you replied as you did. But, thought I would make a remark about our occupation and its conduct. I'm reading a book by an former military intell officer who aptly remarked that the civilian leaders (i.e. undersecretaries) with no prior military experience that are running the show are like "virgins writing sex manuals."
If there were no Stockpiles, then Bush lied, and troops died.
Page 32Z?
If there were no Stockpiles, then Bush lied, and troops died.
Three questions:
Are you saying Saddam was innocent if he had moved his stockpiles?Do you think his capabilities and plans for future WMD's, when the coast was clear, were irrelevant?
And, do you also believe the "Oil-for-Food" money bought food for starving women and children?
Instead, if we want to discuss boring stuff like WMDs, let's talk about how Bush and Cheney lied and illegally exposed Valerie Plame...
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