Powell Speech to UN Live Thread

[Support Free Republic]

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

[Peach]

I wish the peaceniks would read The Threatening Storm. Even if we don't feel threatened here, it's the humane thing to do to remove Saddam from the face of the world. Imagine what's out there in the intelligence world we aren't hearing about.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Did anyone else read on FR that Nelson Mandela had provided aluminum tubes to Saddam? The article was posted before Mandela's slanderous comments last week.

[valleygal]

Dang, the Iraqis are going to claim " those are not decontamiantion trucks, they are roadside falafel lunchwagons"

ROFL...sorry I'm still trying to catch up on the thread.

[DoughtyOne]

LOL, we'll never know will we.

[alisasny]

I hope all the human shields are in place.

[NautiNurse]

"I'm no expert about centrifuge tubes...but just as an old army trooper..."

Great stuff!

[Jewels1091]

How long is it going to take for the left to realize clinton was horrible!!!!!! When Saddam sends him a thank you note?????

[Quilla]

Someone mentioned recently (Peggy Noonan, just before SOTU) that our President has not been sleeping well - I wouldn't be either.

[rintense]

Dime to donuts says this will be the new rallying cry of the left-- "They'll use the WMDs on our troops!!!"

Pelosi, in fact, has already said this.

[Big Dan]

LOL!

[Constitution Day]

POWELL: "Maybe the Iraqis just manufacture their weapons to a higher standard than we do, but I doubt it."

LMAO!! I can't wait to see this on C-Span tonight.

[prairiebreeze]

showing aluminum tubes--saying US thinks they are for nuke centrifugation

Iraq says for conventional weapons

bottom line---they are BANNED materials and Iraq shouldn't have them in first place. They are manufactured to a tolerance way above US levels for similar conventional weapons

progression of higher and higher levels of refinement of the tubes

They want a magnet production plant---trying to get supplies from Indian, Russia and others (I wish he'd link France the Germans)

[UB355]

Index

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Yeah and let's hope they are wiped out before they reproduce.

[baseballmom]

And Bush I was too gutless to accept the uncertainty around a headless Iraq.

I'm sick of hearing this falsehood. Bush I spoke to this the other day - the mandate was to remove Iraq from Kuwait. Mission accomplished. Bush I said (paraphrasing) that the United States HAD to abide by the resolution of the coalition. It was a matter of HONOR. Our government without honor is no better than the 2 bit dictatorships we are trying to remove.

[epluribus_2]

Iraq is a weird combination of cleverness and genius and mind-boggling incompetence.

have to save that quote - utterly correct. Most criminals have these qualities, too.

[cyncooper]

Who gave Scott Ritter his talking points that perfectly mirrored the Iraqi position?

(I know, but will he be helf to account?)

[eyespysomething]

Right after she saidf they didn't have any WMD's.

[Terriergal]

I hope I can get a copy of it... this is incredible.

[Quilla]

it is going to be very interesting to see how liberal media spins it ..and what sound bytes they show to the public

Wow, I haven't even considered that - this will be interesting.