Iraqi drone 'could drop chemicals on troops' (See Para #2 of story -- MUST READ)

London Times ^ | 8 March 2003 | James Bone

[Calpernia]

I'm in the mood to pick up a bat right now and go bash some heads....are you coming? < /ends unlady like rant >

[Dolphy]

Who do you think is hiding something? Those who oppose us?

[Howlin]

Yes. All of them. It's like a concerted effort to destroy this country, IMO.

[Mo1]

What else has Blix not reported on that they have found?

Good Question

[Spunky]

My original screenname:

That is funny. I can understand why you changed it, but why did you?

[marajade]

Bush has the patience of a saint...

[Howlin]

I know this may be stupid, but I honestly do not believe any of them would lie to us.

I trust them with my life and the lives of my family and friends.

[Calpernia]

Did you catch Powell saying that he gave them a report from the European country detailing the purchase of those tubes??!!! Is that public information??? Anyone else have more detail on that? I will do some investigating.

[Dolphy]

I agree with you, it has only recently become entirely clear to me. It is about oil and breaking the back of our economy. The French, Germans, Russians, etc. are happy to invest in Iraq and their state run oil operations, they fear privatization. And look further into their investments in Iran. What turns my stomach is that we want to push democracy, these countries are happy with the status quo tyrants and oppressive societies.

[Howlin]

When I first came here, I worked for a cable chat room and used Howlin there. They didn't want me posting on a board like this using Howlin; so I picked stalker; unoriginal as hell. When I left the chat room, I reregistered as the name most people knew me by.

[bonfire]

I do too and I pray they live up to the faith we have in them.

[marajade]

"It's like a concerted effort to destroy this country, IMO."

But why? They'd all be bankrupt or have no freedom if it wasn't for the blood spilled by us...

[Howlin]

You bet your butt it's about oil:

UN plan to give Saddam 72 hours to leave Baghdad
Sunday Herald ^ | 3/8/03

Posted on 03/08/2003 10:47 PM EST by areafiftyone

SADDAM Hussein and his family are to be given 72 hours on Tuesday to accept an offer of exile, while 50 of Iraq's top military brass will be offered an amnesty in return for full co-operation with the United Nations in a secret plan to be tabled at its New York headquarters. The highly sensitive proposal was tabled by Pakistan during a closed-door meeting of the 10 non-permanent members of the Security Council on Friday and was brokered by Saudi Arabia, the Vatican and moderate Arab states. Failure by Saddam to agree to the plan would clear the way for war.

If the proposal, understood to be in the form of a short paragraph, becomes part of a second resolution and is adopted by the Security Council, the UN would oversee the establishment of a post-Saddam government and the UN, not the US, would take stewardship of Iraq's oilfields.

The Iraqi generals and top ranking officers would have to co-operate fully with UN inspectors to oversee the total elimination of any weapons of mass destruction.

Pope John Paul II has dispatched his emissaries to meet all the key parties during the past two weeks. His special envoy and per manent observer at the UN, Archbishop Renato Rafaele Martino, has been discussing the proposal with all the Security Council members.

Meanwhile, Cardinal Pio Laghi, a former Papal Nuncio, met with President George W Bush, while Cardinal Angelo Sodano has met with Tony Blair. Cardinal Roger Etchegaray met with Saddam in Baghdad and discussed the subject of exile, which he said Saddam did not rule out.

American sources have confirmed that the US and Jordan have recently discussed the prospect of using the UN to offer a formal exile and amnesty package to Saddam and his inner circle.

Last month, Saddam rejected informal pleas to choose exile over war. But the US is aware that one of the attractions of an amendment that extends the offer to his family and military leaders is the likelihood it may trigger a coup, leading to his assassination by a member of his inner circle.

It is thought that Saddam's sons, Uday and Qusay, would push for a safe passage out rather than face a cataclysmic end in a Baghdad bunker. 'Uday might be the first to shoot his father if he refused an amnesty,' one senior Jordan official is quoted as saying.

The proposed amendment is still at a low rung on the UN procedural ladder but the non-permanent members believe it represents a last best chance to avert a war. But, from the Security Council's point of view, it offers a compromise that would allow its members to unite and vote for a second resolution.

UN sources have also indicated that a second resolution on Tuesday with the March 17 ultimatum -- incorporating an offer of exile -- would provide an attractive compromise that would let the French to come on board without 'losing face' or appearing to have capitulated to the US.

[marajade]

"Is that public information???"

I don't know... the History Channel had in their show tonight...

[Calpernia]

>>>hiding plenty if you ask me

Did anyone see my post today from Uday? Someone bumped it to War* and someone analyzed it as Uday sounding worried. It had to do with how resolution 1441 went.

[Howlin]

They want to put the U.N. over the entire world.

[PhiKapMom]

That article makes my blood boil. Saddam in exile would be devastating for the people in Iraq. Anyone that thinks he would keep his hands off Iraq, better think again.

UN should have no say in Iraq IMO! Time for us to start bombing like yesterday!

[Howlin]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/860029/posts

[marajade]

"They want to put the U.N. over the entire world."

The people of this country would never stand for that...

[Howlin]

Now it's all about us not coming out victorious. I honestly believe that. And they will literally agree to give him ANYTHING to cause us to lose face.