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IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO UN RESPONDING TO POWELL IN UN SECURITY COUNCIL NOW ON CSPAN
Posted on 02/05/2003 10:59:19 AM PST by yonif
IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO UN RESPONDING TO POWELL IN UN SECURITY COUNCIL NOW ON CSPAN....
ON NOW.
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KEYWORDS: biologicalweapons; chemicalweapons; denydenydeny; disappearingarms; gulfwarii; iraq; iraqiresponse; liesliesliesyeah; nuclearweapons; powellspeech; un; wmd
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posted on
02/05/2003 10:59:20 AM PST
by
yonif
To: yonif
Lying scumbag.
To: yonif
Okay what is the Iraq Pork Minister saying?
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posted on
02/05/2003 11:01:16 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
To: yonif
I think he's calling us tattle tales with no proof
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posted on
02/05/2003 11:01:48 AM PST
by
linn37
(work my fingers to the bone and what do I get?)
To: yonif
Sorry...I can't watch anymore, least of all the Iraqis.
Powell was awesome today and the squeamishness of the French, Russians and Chinese is sickening.
I'm done with the Iraq debate. Let me know when the war starts.
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posted on
02/05/2003 11:02:09 AM PST
by
Wphile
(I'm so sick of the UN)
To: areafiftyone
in other words "we're innocent I tell you, INNOCENT!!! There is .... NO Proof "
I am of course paraphrasing!
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posted on
02/05/2003 11:03:40 AM PST
by
Japedo
(Live Free or Die Trying)
To: yonif
Yep, thanks...
I find it quite repulsive that Iraq has been given the opportunity to use our own NY Times to supposedly defend himself internationally against our own govt...
outrageous...
7
posted on
02/05/2003 11:04:42 AM PST
by
Tamzee
(You beg them to not drink the Kool-Aid but they insist it's drawn from the Fountain of Truth)
To: yonif; All
What an idiot, among other things. If he doesn't have weapons of mass destruction how can he know about what these weapons need to be built? (Cause he is describing what facilities were not found in Iraq, to make it possible for Iraq to have WMD).
8
posted on
02/05/2003 11:05:35 AM PST
by
yonif
To: Wphile
Well, as much as any true Freeper hates to defend these other countries *gag*, it is true that Powell had been lowering expectations for his speech. They are told what to say by their countries...
No one expected Powell to come up with such strong evidence... they all probably told their ambassadors to come up with waffling answers... we'll know in a day or two what these countries -really- think.
9
posted on
02/05/2003 11:05:35 AM PST
by
Nataku X
(Never give Bush any power you wouldn't want to give to Hillary.)
To: yonif
His lies are a bad as his combover.
10
posted on
02/05/2003 11:05:49 AM PST
by
Hugin
To: Japedo
ahhhh - the old I am innocent routine - BURN HIM!!!! oops I got carried away!
11
posted on
02/05/2003 11:06:02 AM PST
by
areafiftyone
(The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
To: yonif
One thing that Powell's presentation proved beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the UN inspection team is Severely Compromised. Iraq knows where the UN is going days in advance.
To: All
Iraq offers security and Peace? Is this guy for real?
To: Nakatu X
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posted on
02/05/2003 11:08:30 AM PST
by
chance33_98
(Freedom is not Free)
To: Wphile
Sorry...I can't watch anymore, least of all the Iraqis.
Your right , I'm with you there. I was getting physically ill and I just don't get why?!Why so they can do what Saddam does and also get away with it?
To: yonif
I think it is very clear... the lines have been drawn.
France, Germany, Russia, and China have all decided to align themselves with Iraq, even after pledging support for the War against Terrorism.
Al-Qaeda has attacked the US. Powell gave irrefutable proof that Iraq has assisted al-Qaeda. France, Russia, China, and Germany side with Iraq. France, Russia, China, and Germany side with al-Qaeda.
Now we know who our friends are.
To: yonif
Anyone have a transcript of this Iraqi's response, I caught the end of it.
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posted on
02/05/2003 11:12:01 AM PST
by
jgrubbs
To: jgrubbs
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A senior Iraqi member of parliament has dismissed U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's evidence to the U.N. Security Council as "lies."
"These are lies and fabrications which have no material proof. They are aimed at creating a pretext for military aggression against Iraq," Salem al-Kubaisi, head of Arab and foreign relations committee at Iraq's national assembly, told Reuters.
Meanwhile, the founder of a militant Islamic group in northern Iraq denied charges by Powell that his group had offered safe haven to members of the al Qaeda network.
Mullah Krekar, whose Ansar Al-Islam movement controls a sliver of territory in northern Iraq, told a news conference in Oslo, Norway, that "this is propaganda," referring to Powell's allegations of harboring al Qaeda members in the region.
Krekar, 47, said he had no links to al Qaeda or Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
There has been no official Iraqi reaction as yet.
At the United Nations, Iraqi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri was invited by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to take a seat at the large circular Security Council table to listen to Powell's presentation and to make remarks afterward.
As he headed into the chamber, he was asked what message he would be delivering. "It's a message for peace," Al-Douri said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iraq's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, said his country does not want war with the United States and was ready to cooperate with U.N. arms inspectors searching the country for hidden weapons of mass destruction.
"We are ready to explain everything to inspectors," he told Le Figaro newspaper in Paris.
In a British TV interview broadcast aired a day before U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech, Saddam Hussein denied his government had any weapons of mass destruction or ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network.
"If we had a relationship with al Qaeda and if we believed in this relationship, we won't be ashamed to admit it," Saddam said in an interview broadcast on Britain's Channel 4.
"The answer is no, we do not have any relationship with al Qaeda."
The interview with Saddam was conducted in Baghdad on Sunday by Tony Benn, a British anti-war activist and former Labour member of Parliament.
Benn is vocal critic of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's pro-U.S. stance on Iraq. In 1990, Benn met with Saddam in an unsuccessful bid to avert the 1991 Gulf War.
"Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction, and I challenge anyone who claims that we have them to come forward with their evidence and present it before public opinion," Saddam went on.
He said that if war comes, his people would fight "just like the British did during World War II." He said the drive for war was fueled by a U.S. desire to control Iraq's oil reserves, not concern over weapons of mass destruction.
"We want to tell the people of Britain that Iraqis are brave people and they believe in human rights," he said. "They want to live in peace in this world, and they want their rights and dignity to be preserved."
Many U.S. allies have said they want more time for U.N. weapons inspectors to do their work in Iraq.
But U.S. President George W. Bush and his top national security aides have said repeatedly that the United States -- with or without its allies -- will forcibly disarm Iraq if it does not immediately comply with U.N. resolutions requiring it to rid itself of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The European Union has warned Iraq that time is running out and has told Baghdad its failure to disarm would make it responsible should the United States and Britain lead an attack, The Associated Press reports.
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posted on
02/05/2003 11:14:55 AM PST
by
jgrubbs
To: chance33_98
whoa... okay, you're right. ;)
19
posted on
02/05/2003 11:16:55 AM PST
by
Nataku X
(Never give Bush any power you wouldn't want to give to Hillary.)
To: yonif
I am SO SURE that the Iraqi advisor is on the TV now saying that the USA is in material breach of 1441 for not turning over the evidence Powell presented today. And is referencing Scott Ritter as an expert in investigations and how they should be conducted. They have GOT to be kidding...
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posted on
02/05/2003 11:19:27 AM PST
by
ukbird
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