LIVE THREAD: Blix Reports to the U.N. on Iraqi Compliance

http://freerepublic.com ^ | March 7, 2003

[Howlin]

Link to C-SPAN

As usual, please no HUGE graphics

[Mo1]

Get the cat and drag it around...get rid of those pesky dustbunnies..

LOL .. that was bad .. I don't have to worry about dinner .. the in-laws are having the kiddies sleep over ..

I just need to clean this house and jump in the shower before I give the MIL something to complain about ..

OK .. I'm walking away from the computer .. Really .. honest ..ok .. I'm trying to

Wish me luck

[r9etb]

Villipin bitch-slapped.....PRICELESS!!

I was only listening -- from descriptions in this thread, I guess Frenchy looked like a gutted trout.

Listening was good enough, though: it was not a polite bitch-slapping. Straw engaged in no diplospeak whatsoever. He seems to have had some prepared remarks, but for the most part it sounded like he handled Frenchy's points directly and extemporaneously.

(He also, a little more politely, bitch-slapped Blix and the Nuke commission.)

I'm guessing you can probably pick it up on C-Span at some point. It's worth a search.

[woofie]

come back .....

[watchwoman]

"I am pretty amazed that Fox has gone as long as they have today with minimal anchors speaking and minimal -"THIS IS A FOX NEWS ALERT..."

...maybe they have been lurking at FR!

[RummyChick]

so what is the newsworthiness of the first name

is it because he meant it as insult
or because he was so heated that he forgot what he was doing
..just how big of deal is it to call him by his first name

[RummyChick]

their coverage was pretty good today
minimal interruptions..not even sure if they did alot of advertising breaks..it wasn't perfect but better than in the past

but that constant news alert music coming with a some assinine NEWS ALERT has got to go..hopefully they have gotten the message

[hispanarepublicana]

just how big of deal is it to call him by his first name

In diplomatic or legislative circles, it's generally done if someone wants someone to know that they're speaking DOWN to them. It belittles your opponent.

[Mo1]

I would if I could .. but I'm really not here, so I can't

[Chemist_Geek]

is it because he meant it as insult or because he was so heated that he forgot what he was doing
..just how big of deal is it to call him by his first name

I think that in diplo-speak, it's very patronizing. In that rarefied atmosphere, the diplomats aren't just people, they're nations. To bring one down by using a personal name...

[prairiebreeze]

**it's generally done if someone wants someone to know that they're speaking DOWN to them. It belittles your opponent.**

Interesting. I dont' know much Diplo-Speak...thank goodness!

Prairie

[cyncooper]

but using this as saying saddam is bad is hypocritical.

Nonsense. Further, I pointed out it is more evidence of non-compliance. You do know that Saddam was supposed to provide evidence of ceasing and desisting in such behavior. You do know that he uses these on real people.

Yes, it shows he's bad, all right.

[RummyChick]

there was a banner just on fix that said something about N. Korea warning that US might attack a certain plant...started with a Y.

Frankly, I think that nut in North Korea is just as big a threat as Saddam.

[woofie]

Dont leave us here all alone....

[r9etb]

US might attack a certain plant...started with a Y.

Yongbong (sp?) nuclear plant, which they've just restarted, and which produces material for building nukes.

[Red6]

The US stopped bio weapon production in 1975.

The US stopped Chemical weapon production years ago.

Johnston Atoll is where we destroy our and other countries arsenal of B/C weapons.

Congress just passed a spending bill less than a year ago where we are spending $500,000,000 on Russian C weapon destruction.

We currently only produce extremely small quantities of B/C agents for the development of protective systems. Example new NBC suit, M-22 chemical agent monitor, ICAM, NBC live agent chamber training. Yet this is ALL defensive in nature.

Even if we wanted too. The institutional knowledge on how to employ B/C weapons is lost. The US Army does NOT teach it to the NBC officer corps.

Animal testing=surly
Massive production or sales (as some idiots believe)=No

[mhking]

Frankly, I think that nut in North Korea is just as big a threat as Saddam.

Not quite - Lil Kim just wants money. He figures if he keeps annoying us, we'll pay him to leave us alone.

[Terriergal]

yep.

[Terriergal]

Yes, it shows he's bad, all right.

sounds like in essence you two are violently agreeing.

[hispanarepublicana]

Frankly, I think that nut in North Korea is just as big a threat as Saddam.

Bigger. But, we can still stop Saddam. It may be close to too-late for N. Korea.

[piasa]

I think the point is to drive home the fact that if Saddam Hussein ever uses the stuff, it won't be for the defense of his people, because he cares nothing for his people. It won't be to defend their beliefs, because he trashed their legal system when he came to power and assassinated even his fellow Bathist co-conspirators. It won't be to preserve a free nation, because Iraq is not free. It won't be to defend his neighbors, because Iraq preys upon other nations and annexes them. And unlike other nations, he has actually used the weapons in situations in which they were wholly unneccessary, even against Iraqis... and he has already shared these weapons anfd their manufacturing process with terrorist groups instead of behaving responsibly and keeping them under lock and key.

If Hussein uses these weapons or sells or gives them to others, they will be used against Americans or Brits or Israelis or Kuwaitis, etc... that alone makes his possession of such weapons more important than if, for example, New Zealand has them, or we have them, or if Denmark has them.