'Bush's Illegal War' Questionnaire (Share with your appeasenik friends!)

Sykes Writes at WTMJ Milwaukee ^ | 24 Sep 03 | A 620 WTMJ listener

[Mr. Silverback]

Charles includes a note on the blog entry this questionarre is in:"NOTE: This isn't mine -- I got it from a listener. But I think it's a useful exercise. Feel free to copy it and share it with your anti-war friends and family members."

You can bet your keister on that one, Charles! Heh-heh, this is going to be fun.

[Mr. Silverback]

I think your lists might like this.

[Mr. Silverback]

Anti-wanker thread over here. Hold the appeaseniks feet to the fire!

[samiam1972]

I know who I'm sending this to...BUMP!

[cwb]

I like the list..but I have a question about #13:

"13. Do you think finding an airplane fuselage in a terrorist training camp in northern Iraq means terrorists were practicing hijackings? If not, for what purpose do you think they were using the airplane?"

I didn't know they found a fuselage in "N. Iraq." From what I recall the fuselage is located at Salman Pak which I thought was actually 30-35 miles "south" of Baghdad, putting it in squarely in Saddam's controlled region.

[Mr. Silverback]

Ouch. I meant to edit that and put a note about the edit in post 1, but I brain dumped it. Good catch, and correct it before using with appeaseniks; one of the current line from them (and some bush-hating freepers) is that all the terror training camps were in Kurdish territory. Yeah, as if Saddam didn't like terrorism!

[Mr. Silverback]

NOTE: See posts 5 & 6 about the Salman Pak hijacker training facility before using this questionarre!

[eyespysomething]

Neal Boortz had it in his Nealz Nuze area Monday or last week.

[Kadric]

"4. Do you feel that Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons he was specifically forbidden to have by the UN; for example, the Scud missiles he fired into Kuwait during the first two weeks of the war?"

This one at least is wrong. The press reported every ground to ground missle fired as a scud. There were no confirmed scuds fired. The missles fired into Iraq were the "Al something" the missles that the inspectors told them had to be destroyed in Jan-Feb of this year.

[cwb]

Some of the missiles were the Al-Somud but I also heard there may have been a Chinese missile that was used as well. You better check this out to be sure...although I did hear they were extended range, also, which was a violation. Silverback...check it out to make sure.

[Redcloak]

I like the "OJ sanity test" at the end. L.A. talk radio hosts John & Ken use similar OJ questions to rule on the sanity of their kookier callers.

[Kadric]

The Chinese missile was the anti shipping missile that was aimed in the general direction of Kuwait and hit around the beach. I believe it was a Silkworm.

The Al-Somuds were being destroyed before the push for the Security Council resolution in March. We said they had more of them than they admitted though. So in my thoughts at least this would be a push, it could play for either side. (My personnel view is that the fact they were built at all showed contempt for the previous resolutions.)

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

It was a Chinese Seersucker fired at Kuwait, I think.

We found missiles with reservoirs for filling w/ (and spraying) liquids. Precursor chems aren't that difficult to mix.

The means are easy. It takes a monster with the will to destroy a village. Saddam.

The critics were always short on logic and big on bitterness.

[cwb]

Thanks...I also found this from Blix with regards to the Al Samuds and the illegal chambers.

""In my January update to the Council I referred to the al-Samud II and the Al Fatah missiles, reconstituted casting chambers, construction of a missile engine test stand and the import of rocket engines, which were all declared to UNMOVIC by Iraq.

I noted that the al-Samud II and the Al Fatah could very well represent prima facie cases of proscribed missile systems, as they had been tested to ranges exceeding the 150 kilometers limit set by the Security Council. I also noted that Iraq had been requested to cease flight tests of these missiles until UNMOVIC completed a technical review.

Earlier this week, UNMOVIC missile experts met for two days with experts from a number of member states to discuss these items. The experts concluded unanimously that, based on the data provided by Iraq, the two declared variants of the al-Samud II missile were capable of exceeding 150 kilometers in range. This missile system is therefore proscribed for Iraq pursuant to Resolution 687 and the monitoring plan adopted by Resolution 715.

As for the Al Fatah, the experts found that clarification of the missile data supplied by Iraq was required before the capability of the missile system could be fully assessed. With respect to the casting chambers, I note the following: UNSCOM ordered and supervised the destruction of the casting chambers, which had been intended for use in the production of the proscribed Badr 2000 missile system.

Iraq has declared that it has reconstituted these chambers. The experts have confirmed that the reconstituted casting chambers could still be used to produce motors for missiles capable of ranges significantly greater than 150 kilometers. Accordingly, these chambers remain proscribed.

The expert also studied the data on the missile engine test stand that is nearing completion and have assessed it to be capable of testing missile engines with thrusts greater than that of the SA-2 engine. So far the test stand has not been associated with the proscribed activity.

On the matter of the 380 SA-2 missile engines imported outside of the export-import mechanism and in contravention of paragraph 24 of Resolution 687, UNMOVIC inspectors were informed by Iraq during an official briefing that these engines were intended for use in the al-Samud II missile system, which has now been assessed to be proscribed. Any such engines configured for use in this missile system would also be proscribed..."

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the ping, Mr. Silverback. Good questions! Forwarding to the press and Senate, as well.

Tough questions for the weak critics.

 Thanks, Tonkin!

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[Ex-Dem]

*BUMP!

Save this one and send it to any Iraq critics you might know. Any lib college professor, journalist, or Dem that you give this to is guaranteed to go apoplectic.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[windchime]

Bump!

[The Coopster]

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[PsyOp]

Here's a link to more info on the subject:

Bio-Chemical Weapons & Saddam: A History.

It's long, but worth it.