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Powell Speech to UN Live Thread

Posted on 02/05/2003 6:36:41 AM PST by Support Free Republic

Might as well start up the live thread. Speech starts at 10:30 EST (scheduled), which is within the hour.


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To: Constitution Day
For those of us office-bound w/o streaming capabilities, please post interesting screen shots of pictures as available and transcript of Iraqi comms. Thanks.
41 posted on 02/05/2003 6:51:41 AM PST by Julliardsux
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To: Kip Lange
Power Point!
42 posted on 02/05/2003 6:51:45 AM PST by prairiebreeze ("We won't deny, ignore or pass our problems along to other Presidents" --GWBush)
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To: Kip Lange
All the "we don't have a smoking gun" just classic lowering of expectations, perhaps...?

I hope so. I think when our military is involved they can be amazingly clever and that is what we have here. It is just the very top end of our military and they fight a different kind of war. I think there is a major ambush afoot.

43 posted on 02/05/2003 6:51:50 AM PST by biblewonk
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To: Kip Lange
Good. While we are waiting for Powell's slam-dunk, we can count the number of obnoxious comments by Rats and media. Biden gets the #1 position today.
44 posted on 02/05/2003 6:51:51 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: Support Free Republic
Sheeeesh ys gotta register... CLICK HERE FOR RADIO REGISTRATION
45 posted on 02/05/2003 6:52:12 AM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: hoosiermama
How bout 'Home' or 'American' fries.
46 posted on 02/05/2003 6:52:13 AM PST by My back yard (God Bless Bush and God Bless America)
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To: Support Free Republic
This better be good.

Powell is such a jerk on a myriad of issues. I think this is 90% of the sentiment on Free Republic and within conservative, patriotic circles.

47 posted on 02/05/2003 6:52:36 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (How many Americans (especially John Lennon Give Peace a Chance Types) have seen those DPRK posters?)
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To: My back yard
Powell is in the limousine! Boy, they are really covering this!
48 posted on 02/05/2003 6:53:17 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: prairiebreeze
Will there be an Adlai Stevenson moment?
49 posted on 02/05/2003 6:53:17 AM PST by Don'tMessWithTexas
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To: Right_Rev
I was looking ...did anybody put one up yet?
50 posted on 02/05/2003 6:53:18 AM PST by Howlin
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To: nina0113; Brad Cloven
Ill do my best, but dont hold your breath. Fargo is a long, thristy trip. I just wish that Millstone would make that Christmas Blend year round. Man that stuff is awesome! French roast is good too, very dark, coffee must be the only thing that the Frogs have guts with...JFK
51 posted on 02/05/2003 6:53:19 AM PST by BADROTOFINGER
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Hey!
52 posted on 02/05/2003 6:53:37 AM PST by Howlin
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To: My back yard
*How bout 'Home' or 'American' fries*

Either one works for me---anything but FRENCH!!!
53 posted on 02/05/2003 6:53:48 AM PST by prairiebreeze ("We won't deny, ignore or pass our problems along to other Presidents" --GWBush)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
You have been listening to the liberal media too much. Most of his "opinions" have been leaked from State Clintonistas or manufactured by the liberal press.

Trust me, this will be QUITE good.

54 posted on 02/05/2003 6:54:47 AM PST by Miss Marple
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Just a reminder to everyone that tomorrow is Ronald Reagans 92nd Birthday and we are going to have a greeting thread that I am going to forward to the Reagan Library like I did in 2000!


55 posted on 02/05/2003 6:54:56 AM PST by alisasny
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To: My back yard
HOme and AMerican fries are sliced potatoes lovingly fried in bacon or butter here. FR fries are those long thin strips of spud dripping in grease, that come with burgers and pop at the carry out window.
56 posted on 02/05/2003 6:54:58 AM PST by hoosiermama (Prayers for all)
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To: Howlin
Will anyone be able to give a play by play for us office bound folks?
57 posted on 02/05/2003 6:55:04 AM PST by ThinkingMan (Maybe someday I can ride in one of those black helicopters!)
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To: Kip Lange

Hope Powell's got some Power Point slides on this:

Saddam's bodyguard warns of secret arsenal



02feb03

SADDAM Hussein's senior bodyguard has fled with details of Iraq's secret arsenal.

His revelations have supported US President George W. Bush's claim there is enough evidence from UN inspectors to justify going to war.

Abu Hamdi Mahmoud has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited.

They include:

AN underground chemical weapons facility at the southern end of the Jadray Peninsula in Baghdad;

A SCUD assembly area near Ramadi. The missiles come from North Korea;

TWO underground bunkers in Iraq's Western Desert. These contain biological weapons.

William Tierney, a former UN weapons inspector who has continued to gather information on Saddam's arsenal, said Mahmoud's information is "the smoking gun".

"Once the inspectors go to where Mahmoud has pointed them, then it's all over for Saddam," Tierney said.

Tierney, who has high-level contacts in Washington that go to the White House, said the information we publish today on Mahmoud's revelations "checks out, absolutely checks out".

Mahmoud was a mem ber of the elite unit that protects Saddam.

It is called the Murasiq Qun – the "Inner Circle".

He was known as "The Gatekeeper".

Mahmoud is a muscular Saddam lookalike often photographed standing behind Saddam when he is seated, or to his left when on the move.

Last week, Mahmoud was being debriefed at a high-security base in Israel's Negev Desert.

Ariel Sharon, the country's hard-line prime minister, has only allowed snippets of Mahmoud's sensational claims to be shared with the CIA and MI6.

"Sharon intends to shatter the growing anti-war movement," a source close to Mr Sharon said.

"He plans to call all those European leaders who are wavering to let them know how Saddam has continued to fool Hans Blix and his weapons inspectors."

Mahmoud's revelations include locations of five bunkers buried beneath man-made sand dunes.

Stockpiled in the bunkers are warheads identical to the empty shell cases found two weeks ago by the UN inspectors.

Mahmoud said those shells were on their way to be refilled and stored in the bunkers.

A transcript from his debriefing includes:

"Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are also concealed in a tunnel complex deep beneath the sewers of Baghdad and in an underground complex in Ouja, to the north of Tikrit.

"The complex was built five years ago with help from Chinese engineers.

"The entrance to the site is through a house in Tikrit. It is the home of one of Saddam's cousins and is more than half a mile from where the weapons are stored."

In another excerpt from his debriefing, Mahmoud boasts: "I was inside the innermost circle where Saddam eats and sleeps.

"I was among the handful of bodyguards closest to him.

"Very few people are allowed close to Saddam.

"Many of the TV images you see of him were taken years ago. Most people now only speak to him over the phone. He usually calls them.

"If they have to call him back with information he wants, it is passed through his sons (Uday and Qusay) or (Deputy Prime Minister) Tariq Aziz.

"All those close to him have codes, which they use to access the outer circle. But even they can only come so close to Saddam before there is a cut-off point – the Inner Circle. Even Tariq Aziz is checked to see if he is carrying weapons.

"Saddam knows fortunes are being offered to have him assassinated."

Saddam's paranoia increased after Uday, his eldest son, narrowly escaped assassination when gunmen riddled his car with bullets in 1996. Uday was partially paralysed and uses a wheelchair.

To avoid falling victim to even his own bodyguards, Saddam is a walking arsenal.

"He has concealed guns all over his body," Mahmoud said.

"He also has panic buttons to press if he even suspects somebody is about to attack him."

Israeli intelligence sources have hinted that the deal with Mahmoud included smuggling his family out of Iraq.

Mossad agents have done this before.

At the start of Saddam's reign of terror, they persuaded an Iraqi pilot to fly his Russian fighter to Israel – after spiriting out his wife and children.

58 posted on 02/05/2003 6:55:37 AM PST by RobFromGa (Space Is The Final Frontier.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Powell is SecState and was no doubt playing the good cop throughout this whole thing. In the last two weeks though, he appears to be clearly in the fold.
59 posted on 02/05/2003 6:55:52 AM PST by Don'tMessWithTexas
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While you are waiting Please Freep This Poll
60 posted on 02/05/2003 6:56:33 AM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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