Dead children, previously playing in Halabja
Victims of Saddams' WMD in March 1988.
Also found in Iraq:
* A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service
that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.
* A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials
working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
* Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home,
one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.
* New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
* Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in
resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
* A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission
that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.
* Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles,
a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists
have said they were told to conceal from the UN.
* Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km -
well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed
Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.
Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology
related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles,
and other prohibited military equipment.
Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:
up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;
up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;
growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);
over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;
20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);
2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;
development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)
Okay...I don't get it. Which part upset the President? The part where Hussein died? or the part where everyone is happy about the death?
He ought to get upset about the Democrats. They do and say things that get Americans killed.
One thing is for sure, Saddam isn't going to be slapping Bush in the face over and over like the Democrats have been for years. Maybe someday Bush will get "upset" enough to fight back? Nah...
HFS, HE WAS TAUNTED.....PRAISE THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY HE WASN'T TORTURED WITH A WET NOODLE...
Last night the National Geographic Channel aired a two-part series about Hitler and the Nazi's. They showed some very graphic footage of inmate bodies stacked like cord wood in the concentration camps. They later showed the hanging of Nazi's after the Nuremberg trials... their reward seemed somehow fitting. We need to gain some perspective, Bush included.
Yes, yes it is, which is why that part of the world is a millenium behind the times... and will continue to be so.
NEXT!
He was upset they weren't speaking Spanish.
Bingo. This "story" is just that, pure fiction.
President Bush is a good and honorable man. I'm not surprised at all that he would not approve of the taunting, etc.
I'm upset this wasn't a public hanging. It should've been.
President Bush was upset after watching the video of Saddam Hussein's execution, comparing it to how he felt after seeing the photographs of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, White House officials said Wednesday.
Okay, who took the Dubya that was elected twice?
The Dubya with a swagger, the Dubya that made "The Bush Doctrine". The "Bring It On" Dubya. The "You're With Us Or Against Us Dubya". The "Wanted Dead Or Alive" Dubya?
So whomever has him, return him. I want him back dammit and stat!
{An aside: Isn't the comparison to Abu Ghraib and 'shock' and 'outrage' the mantra the leftist moonbats are using??]
I'm upset also that they didn't hang him in the pubic square and broadcast the entier thing world wide!!
Had Saddam's rightful execution been made public for all to see, all the drama surounding this rag tag execution would not be happening.
The truthful thing about this that had there been a high class well run and yes, even respectful execution, people would be crabbing about much ado being made about the execution and it being exploited for a whole host of reasons.
I can understand why the execution, done as it was, is found to be disturbing by our President. It should have been handled better. But let's keep one thing in mind, we did not try him, we did not convict him, and most importantly, we did not execute him. His own countrymen did all those things and the whole deal rests now in the history of the Iraqi people and the Iraqi nation.
The best part about this whole deal is that now Saddam can finally be over. Sure, we have a few straggling articles complaining about the way in which he was executed but they will not last long. I am glad it is finally done and I hope the world (especially the media) can find the stones to MOVE ON.
What the HELL is wrong with our MEN???
Apparently, it is...
Apparently, it is...
Bush can build a bridge. Justice in action should never upset anyone, except the bad guys.
What a coincidence! I feel the same way about Saddam's rope dance as I do about Abu Ghraib, too......
You mean he wasn't mocking Saddam by saying "Please Don't Kill Me."