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

London Times ^ | 8 March 2003 | James Bone

[deport]

they'll use them on us here in the US.

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sounds like a lot of trouble to import, keep hidden, reassemble and then use on the populace when all you need is a crop duster or some other small plane which you can attach a few spray nozzles and a holding tank....

[PhiKapMom]

Actually he does. Doesn't want to give the entire report and make it public. Disgusting!

[gov_bean_ counter]

The fact we knew they had drones and Blix knew but did not tell us they had found them is the story.

I will go one step further. I would lay odds that this Blix drone find was a gift from US intel. This certainly isn't something the Iraqis would give up on their own.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I think the guy is a Nazi...but I could be wrong. Why oh why oh why did we bother going to the UN in the first place?

[marajade]

The History Channel shows that have been on tonight have stated that Saddam really hates Israel and that they would be the likely target...

[marajade]

Actually we gave them intel about smaller drones publicly by Powell and Blix basically accused Powell of lying...

[RoseofTexas]

I am sooooo angry I could spit nails!! WHY AREN'T ALL THE MEDIA OUTLETS reporting this!!! That BASTARD COWARD WHORE BLIX outta be booted out!! W better milk this baby to it's fullest!! AND now SadDEMON is demanding the Jerks over at the UN to drop the embargo! This evil bastard is playing those fools like puppets!! PLEASE TELL ME that W is going to fire out of both barrels over this!!!!!!!! PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

[Jorge]

Blix lied to the Security Council on Friday. This information was not furnished to Powell or Straw until later which is now being reported on NBC, MSNBC, and Fox.

Blix has played right into Saddam's hands, and has divided the UN with this kind of nonsense.

However he is also unwittingly making a fool out of Saddam who thinks that a UN vote against the US and UK will actually protect him from attack.
As a result, when Bush and Blair give the go ahead, Saddam will not know what hit him.

[deport]

That's not what was left out of the report was it? Wasn't it that the inspectors had found one and not included it in the report?

A REPORT declassified by the United Nations yesterday contained a hidden bombshell with the revelation that inspectors have recently discovered an undeclared Iraqi drone with a wingspan of 7.45m, suggesting an illegal range that could threaten Iraq’s neighbours with chemical and biological weapons.

Not what we already knew but what Blix and the inspectors just found out but omitted... that's what the report didn't include...

[maestro]

Iraqi drone 'could drop chemicals on troops'
(From James Bone in New York)

.......or,.....on airfields,.....ships,.....ports,......ships at sea,......Kurds, Turks, Iranians,....ports too.

[TEXOKIE]

Amen to your first post, PhiKapMom!

[Samwise]

To shut the stinking liberals up, but it just make them louder.

[wendellscout]

This burns me! I am new to this forum, and am developing my conservative views currently. I seem to agree with everyone on this site more and more. We need to get in there! I think Howie Carr said on Friday "Beware the ides of March"

[deport]

Saddam really hates Israel and that they would be the likely target...

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Yep and so they were last time in 1991 with the scuds.

[PhiKapMom]

The same intelligence people that Blix and his sidekick dissed in their latest reports to the United Nations.

The report Blix gave on Friday basically said the US Intellilgence was worthless.

And he knew all along the drones had been found. I thought he was incompetent before but now I think he is Anti-American and in the hip pocket of Saddam and Chirac! Three peas in a pod!

[slimer]

The implications of this along with the persistence of France to lead the other Euroweanies in preventing the U.N. from athorizing force against Iraq puts American and British soldiers more at risk for greater loss of life when the war does begin.

These traitors are not our allies and under the Bush Doctrine, "you're either with us or you are with the enemy" clearly exposes whose side they are on.

I am so outraged that I think we should strike France along with Iraq. When we go into Baghdad, we are going to uncover evidence that is going to prove beyond any doubt that these so called European allies are traitors and have been stabbing us in the back for political and financial gain.

Damn the torpedoes! Let's Roll!

[deport]

Yes the final version but not the draft version to which Powell was given and working from... and not mentioned in his oral presentations.....

[PhiKapMom]

If you read the article and according to the reporter from the London Times that was interviewed, the drone information was buried inside the final report. The fact the report went from 167 to 173 made some people start looking for what was added and that's when they found the information on the drones.

Bottom line: Blix did not hand six pages over of new information -- instead he buried that information that led to having 173 pages.