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.

[Terriergal]

They got that right!!!

Apparently the slimeball idiots at that other website don't think so. FREEPMAIL ME for the thread if you want it.

[Carolinamom]

We periodically intercepted shipments of tubes to Iraq and saw their measurements increasing.....

[b4its2late]

Thanks for the info. It'll be interesting to hear them and the talking heads this evening....

[rintense]

I think I heard FOX say that he presented more chilling info to our guys. The UN speech is not giving all the really scary details.

[mikegi]

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.

Of course they will. They have no conscience. Regardless, I hope our USAF will pound Saddam's NBC forces to dust to prevent any coordinated NBC attack on our guys. We really need them to do a through job before sending in the ground troops.

[defenderSD]

"Frogs don't have cajones."

Indeed, the French have been totally lacking in courage on the Iraq issue. It will be amusing to hear their rationalizations about this Powell presentation.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The systems Iraq is developing to deliver the weapons. First, missiles. Saddam's goal pre Gulf War, missiles that flew thousands of miles. Over the past decade...sources inside Iraq. Saddam has missiles that can travel 650-900 Km - violating 150 K limit. Breaking existing UN resolution.

[Wait4Truth]

Listening to all of this, one thing is crystal clear - clinton knew all of this and did NOTHING.

[lainie]

It's my feeling that Powell's been on board all along -- he's been playing to the left. Otherwise he'd be here today and lefties would be calling him 'just another war monger.'

[AmericanInTokyo]

Two Breaking News Items on Kyodo News in Japanese out of Tokyo. Both very good and noteworthy top headlines on the ticker (text will be out shortly).

In Japanese:

First Headline: "(IRAQ) HIDING OF WEAPONS IS NOT ISOLATED, BUT ORGANIZED EFFORT"

Second Headline: "JAPAN, IN RESPONSE TO WORRIES ABOUT A MISSILE LAUNCH BY N.KOREA, MOVING AEGIS SHIPS TO SEA OF JAPAN, AND RAMPING UP SELF DEFENSE FORCE SURVEILLANCE OF N. KOREA IN ADDITION TO US SPY SATELLITES"

(11:30 A.M. WED. EAST COAST TIME)

[Molly Pitcher]

Almost positive, not., b4.

[b4its2late]

Thanks rin.

[Howlin]

More than this?

I'm scared to death.

[r9etb]

There's an old line from the Book of Common Prayer: "We have done the things we ought not to have done, and have not do the things we ought to have done, and there is no health in us."

Part of the 1928 BCP Confession of Sin. Amazing how the old Episcopal Liturgy still applies so well to modern life, eh? ;-)

[Kip Lange]

Nice graphic, and nice graphical explanation of a reason why a lot of countries in Eastern Europe support action against Saddam. ;-)

[Moby Grape]

And some of the SAME gutless LIBERALS (democrats) who NOW assert that Bush 1 did not finish the job, actually OPPOSED kicking Iraq out of Kuwait.

[concerned about politics]

Saddam bought illegal rocket engines for missiles in Dec., after the 1441 resolution!
Built engine test stand bigger than ever before. (piucturs)

For long range missiles.

[woodyinscc]

"I am dyin to know what kind of screeching is going on at that that OTHER political site.... "

We are watching and hearing, a clear, methodical, and complete devastation of the RATS position against the Bush Adm. and their handling of Iraq.
It is a watershed moment against the dims.
If the U.N. doesn't act now, and act fast, they are completely irrelevant. Thank God the adults are in charge.

[twyn1]

Did Powell do this presentation for our lawmakers this morning? Anybody know?Did Powell do this presentation for our lawmakers this morning? Anybody know?

Powell didn't-- he was in NY, but they did have a meeting/breakfast -- Senate & Congress leaders, Armed Services Comm. and Another committee (can't remeber which -- don't know who gave the briefing, but it was over an hour and a half long

[DoughtyOne]

Some of the statements of the left are so self-defeating I can't believe they make them. They set themselves up, then without so much as batting an eye-lash, that confirms they were wrong. And they don't even seem to know it.