Iraq - Scotsman says Saddam has weapons to wipe out world's population, nuclear bomb within 3 years

The Scotsman ^ | September 7, 2002 | Fraser Nelson and Alison Hardie

[Republican Wildcat]

I think that was Biden.

[RightWhale]

it is highly dangerous to the person[s] attempting it.

I am not referring to those dedicated and brainless servants of Satan who do the actual transporting and detonation of such devices.

I am referring to the power behind the attempt. Goldfinger, Dr. No, Saddam, whoever. He would have a lot of company, uninvited guests, very hungry and annoyed, and very quickly and soon.

I am saying it can't be done in a general attack. It will be discovered and it will fail. It can be done on a small scale, but all that would do is in effect poke a hornet's nest. No sane madman would bother with such a scheme.

[PFKEY]

I really hate it when people make such ignorant claims.

Go easy.

Our ports has been monitored for this very likelyhood for some time now.

[another cricket]

No sane madman would bother with such a scheme.

Unless he was dying anyway. Why not go out having made sure that the world will never forget you? As for the ones you leave behind, what do you care?

I have often wondered if 9/11 would have happened when it did if Bin Ladin hadn't known that he was living on borrowed time.

a.cricket

[RightWhale]

if Bin Ladin hadn't known that he was living on borrowed time

He knew that, no doubt about it. Too bad he went to the wrong Sufi school, he could'a been a contenda.

[DB]

After one spends billions for more than a decade on making the "bomb" the relative difficulties of delivering it are small.

[hope]

dead works for me...But, preferably when Scott Ritter is addressing the Iraqi Parliment.

[DB]

Yes SOME of our ports are monitored. It is actually a small percentage. But even then the ability to monitor is very limited. These monitors have to be close to the ship and the ship is basically in port by the time it is checked.

It is way too late then.

This "monitoring" doesn't detect chemical and biological weapons. On the West coast the prevailing winds are inland.

[P8riot]

By then there will be another piece missing, Saddam Hussein will have left the planet.

Probably on Farrakhans's Mother Ship

[Edmund Burke]

Does Grand Central Station still have luggage lockers?

[rightwing2]

Seriously, there should be laws against this kind of liberal internationalist Iraqi bogeyman scare propaganda. This kind of delusional hype war propaganda coming out of the White House and #10 Downing Street is beginning to take on Orwellian proportions.

[rightwing2]

3750 TOW anti-tank missiles. Gee, I wonder who could have given him those? Let's see could it have been President Reagan? Yes it was and what's more Reagan had it right! It was more important to US national security to arm secularly led Iraq to fight a war against the Islamicist Ayatollah's of terrorist Iran. Such a wiser Reaganite policy would make a lot more sense in countering the greatest national security threats to the US if employed by Bush than the President's current militarily bone-headed policy of invading puny non-threat Iraq while promising Iran that the US will not attack them leaving Iran and Al Queda to pick up the pieces once Saddam is gone and Iraq has been Balkanized.

[sinkspur]

Seriously, there should be laws against this kind of liberal internationalist Iraqi bogeyman scare propaganda. This kind of delusional hype war propaganda coming out of the White House and #10 Downing Street is beginning to take on Orwellian proportions.

You buds with Scottie Ritter?

[dodger]

Yes, Reagan had it right ... nigh on twenty years ago.

Meanwhile, we've had a war with Iraq, they defied the terms of truce without response form the wimpy West (while Billy Jeff was more interested in f*llati* that foreign policy) and have since colluded with Al-Queda. Moreover, you quite wrongly presume there is nothing being done or in the works for Iran (or much of the Middle East, for that matter.

As for the 'Balkanization' of Iraq ... that is a laugher. I understand it's boundaries were actually drawn arbitrarily and with a ruler in the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Iraq is an unecessary construct of the post-Colonial era ... all the better it be carved up.

More to my original point, how's about that Iraq apolgist, Ritter?

[rightwing2]

Your analysis/rebuttal here is badly skewed. You do nothing to address the Balkanization of Iraq issue and the threat of an Iranian takeover of one or more of the three component parts of Iraq. Nor do you address the Bush pledge not to attack the 9-11 supporting Ayatollahs of Iran thus giving 9-11 terrorists fleeing Afghanistan a nice big sanctuary to rest, train, and re-arm for the next Iranian supported 9-11 operation. As for Ritter, he's spot on with Generals Schwartzkopf, Scowcroft, Hoar and others including former President George HW Bush and his entire War Cabinet except Cheney in regards to his belief that it would be militarily stupid to invade non-threat fourth rate military power Iraq and spark a new backlash which will radicalize virtually the entire Middle East against the US and wholly eliminate our ability to continue the war on terror. It will also lead to Iran becoming the regional nuclear hegemon of the entire Gulf region including Iraq.

[sinkspur]

Nor do you address the Bush pledge not to attack the 9-11 supporting Ayatollahs of Iran thus giving 9-11 terrorists fleeing Afghanistan a nice big sanctuary to rest, train, and re-arm for the next Iranian supported 9-11 operation.

There's no pledge, there's only "you're either with us, or with the terrorists."

it would be militarily stupid to invade non-threat fourth rate military power Iraq and spark a new backlash which will radicalize virtually the entire Middle East against the US and wholly eliminate our ability to continue the war on terror.

There's that phony "Arab street" nonsense again. The only thing the "Arab street" understands is cowardice or violence. We're going to take down Hussein and scare the hell out of Assad, and Sultan, and Mubarak, and the Mullahs of Iran. They'll KNOW they could be next.

It will also lead to Iran becoming the regional nuclear hegemon of the entire Gulf region including Iraq.

You need to read the news more closely. The Mullahs' power is crumbling internally. The moderate Khatami will, within five years, consolidate power in Iran, and bring the country back into the 20th century. There are too many Western-educated Iranian young people who are sick and tired of wearing burquas and having their satellite dishes confiscated.

Nobody gives a damn about Iraq, and the Arab states will bid good riddance to Hussein when he's carried out horizontally.

[Campion]

In the US, former president Bill Clinton led fresh demands for any action to topple Saddam to be delayed until Osama bin Laden is caught.

Is their any hint of shame or decency in the Sink Emperor's soul? He has the incredible chutzpah to criticize Bush's handling of the affair his own incompetence and stupidity caused?!?

[dodger]

You say "spot on "?

Well than, do tell, are you a Brit or just a US 'wannabe'?

In any event, I quite directly addressed -- indeed, dispensed with -- your balkanization (so-called) of the fairy-dust state of Iraq.

Likewise, I quite directly addressed -- indeed, dispensed with -- your miscreance as to GWB's likely dealings with the soon-to-be secular state of Iran.

Furthermore, your erroneous histrionics as to the views of GHWB & 'his entire War Cabinet' are laughable. Who among your would-be Pantheon has said anything like '... it would be militarily stupid to invade non-threat fourth rate military power Iraq '?

Who, exactly?

So too, your paraphrenia runs a bit wild (or, if your Britishistic verbal proclivities prefer, 'at the end of the day' rather 'over the top') as you ululate about ghosties-ghosties such as 'Iran becoming the regional nuclear hegemon of the entire Gulf region including Iraq '.

Stuff & nonsense, you mad mustachioed purple-hued maltworm!

[dodger]

Scott Ritter is a traitor.

Sadly, I must agree, either that or he is insane (or on the take or being extorted ...).