UN (UNITED NITWIT) Council Delays Iraqi Arms Document Distribution

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[cake_crumb]

The UN has a lot of censoring to do on it, to protect their little buddy Saddam.

[steveegg]

$0.098 trillion to $2 trillion. That's one massive spread.

BTW, today's developments are about what I expected.

[ThePythonicCow]

then why don the UN inspectors need the protective hazard suits?

to reduce their awareness and vision of surroundings, so they will be less likely to see something?

[txhurl]

The answer is that the US had a 'friend' sell Iraq some 'stuff' that better appear on the declaration, since our friend has a copy of the receipt and shipping manifest.

Doesn't take as long to scan 12K pages (even in Sanskrit!) for items missing on their declaration than it does to assimilate the list of what they do have.

[colorado tanker]

straight out of Star Wars Yep. Kofi's Klowns look an awful lot like the "bar scene" in Star Wars.

[cake_crumb]

"$0.098 trillion to $2 trillion. That's one massive spread."

Reminds me of a weather forcast...

"Today: snow, with possible accumulations of 1 to 6 inches."

If it falls anywhere NEAR within the wide spread predicted, they can claim they predicted it right.

[ThePythonicCow]

the only reason to delay is to edit

Or is it that the only reason to edit is to delay?

Perhaps this editing has several advantages:

1. France
2. delay, delay, delay ...
3. when finally it is released, and the United States notes that Weapons of Mass Destruction facilities x, y and z are missing, Iraq can say "But we had them in the report ... must have been edited out ... they are harmless dual purpose facilities ... the U.N. Weapons Inspectors are welcome to come see for themselves ..." All this causes further delay, confusion and puts Iraq in the easier position of responding to a known list of accusations, instead of having to guess what we know and report it.
4. This continues to keep the U.N. in the catbird seat, not the U.S. The U.N. will not hand the reigns over to us; they will do their best to provide us with no opportunity to take the reigns; we can only rip them from their hands and ride out the storm of protests from the globalists, pacifists, liberals, islamists, ...

This a beauracratic power struggle. One can only win by changing the rules, the playing field and the weapons.

[cake_crumb]

"The U.N. will not hand the reigns over to us; they will do their best to provide us with no opportunity to take the reigns; we can only rip them from their hands and ride out the storm of protests from the globalists, pacifists, liberals, islamists, ..."

Well said BUMP!

[txhurl]

we can only rip them from their hands and ride out the storm of protests from the globalists, pacifists, liberals, islamists, ...

Think we will?

[El Gato]

Why does it take 10,000 pages to say "we don't HAVE any WMD?" And why the delay...does it have to be edited and all agressive language taken out?

1.) Delay, delay, delay.
2.)It has to be translated from Arabic, then the bad stuff taken out by the UN before presenting it to the US and other members.

By that time the temperature in Bahgdad may begin to approach that of the surface of the sun.

[EricT.]

You forgot the ominous breathing sounds.

[cake_crumb]

"By that time the temperature in Bahgdad may begin to approach that of the surface of the sun."

One can hope.

[colorado tanker]

UNMOVIC has to turn this over to the Security Council; tampering with an official document would be bureaucratic suicide. I would think the delay in Baghdad is to give the Blixters time to come up with excuses for not finding the minor stuff Saddam admits to having in the report.

[colorado tanker]

Also, the delay would allow Kofi and Hans to prepare a preemptive strike public statement claiming Saddam is in compliance, because they know a declaration of breach is coming from the White House.

[Grampa Dave]

I'm one of those ping deficient people on purpose. So I ping a few kings and queens of pings to get the word out when something like this happens.

The people who called and emailed me are neighbors and were on their annual trip to London in September. In 2001, they were there when 9/11 happened. They couldn't get home for all most two weeks. They were treated great by the Brits, but it was a very scaring event for them.

This time when they read what Tony Blair said in the Evening papers, I got a call late at night and an email linking me to the site with the article. In minutes, I had it up on Free Republic.

People do this all the time on Free Republic. Often we get the real news before ABCNNBCBS or Fox News even has a teaser.

It is truly an amazing world we live in.

Currently I have no sources in London. After the first of the year we will have several friends over there. I have asked them to email or phone me if something breaks over there re our war on terrorism.

[Grampa Dave]

Our new UN Ambassador, Bart Simpson, gives Koffie Nut AANon, President Bush's response to taking a time out to read the latest BRAVO SIERRA from Uncle Saddam:

[ThePythonicCow]

we can only rip them from ...

Think we will?

My guess is so. And if we don't, then Bush 43s failure to follow through on his year long rhetoric for ousting Saddam will make Bush 41s "no new taxes" failure seem like a $3.12 error on Bill Gates 1040 Form.

[Dark Wing]

ping

[ThePythonicCow]

UNMOVIC has to turn this over to the Security Council; tampering with an official document would be bureaucratic suicide

This part I don't get - how could obfuscation and delay ever possibly get a U.N. bureaucrat in trouble?

give the Blixters time to come up with excuses

That part makes sense.

[Mariner]

Isn't 8pm Baghdad time.......around 7am Honolulu time of the same day?

Dec 7th.......around 0700.....spooky.

Surely I'm wrong.....