I want to post an amazingly blind, left-biased article about the "lies" we have been told by Bush, Rumsfeld, and Powell. I would like us to refute it point by point. Would someone please post it wherever is the most appropriate?
Here is the link:
http://www.sf-frontlines.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=210&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 Here is just one example from the article:
"The US forces have captured enormous caches of weapons and ammunition from defeated and retreating Iraqi forces, but no evidence of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons."
Counterpoint:
How many times do we have to say - IT HAS ONLY BEEN THREE WEEKS, and we have been BUSY FIGHTING A WAR !! Give it TIME !!
"The liars at the top of the US regime have now moved on and said that maybe the WMD were moved to neighboring countries, particularly Syria. Since US forces have controlled what is going in and out of Iraq since the beginning of the war, this seems to be another lie."
Counterpoint:
The Iraqi-Syrian border is approximately 500 kilometers long. It is porous. Smuggling across that area has gone on for hundreds of years. There is no 20-foot high fence. We can't be everywhere at once. We can't even stop drug smuggling into the US from Mexico, and we have full-time border patrol for that. To expect miracles out of our military is rediculous. Does this author have no concept of SPACE or DISTANCE? 500 Km long porous border that is a professional smuggler's paradise.
And there are plenty more blatantly WRONG statements in this article, such as that Basra was "bombarded" for FOUR WEEKS before the Brits went in. HELLO ??? Four weeks??? Apparently the author has no sense of TIME either.
The Iraqi-Syrian border is approximately 500 kilometers long. It is porous. Smuggling across that area has gone on for hundreds of years. There is no 20-foot high fence. We can't be everywhere at once. We can't even stop drug smuggling into the US from Mexico, and we have full-time border patrol for that. To expect miracles out of our military is rediculous. Does this author have no concept of SPACE or DISTANCE? 500 Km long porous border that is a professional smuggler's paradise. I do not agree with this author one bit -- I mean, the SFGate guy, not you -- but if you look at what happened, we surrounded both Basra(h) and Baghdad on THREE SIDES each, leaving a deliberately gaping escape route on one side (specifically, I heard, to let Ba'ath party members get the hellllllllll out). Now, bear in mind everything comes so fast so quick, this could well be disinformation, but it makes sense...the only thing that DIDN'T make sense to me was that supposedly we were seeing leadership convoys and NOT bombing them.
So the Rod-Serling-smoke-in-the-corner-and-think-too-much side says: We don't care (right now) where these jerks go, and bombing the convoys might have risked bombing chemicals that could have spread...and in addition, if they go to Iran or Syria, which is where we left the paths open, we can then demand from those nasty regimes that they turn over the leadership or face consequences. A litmus test, if you will. I doubt I'm right, but it COULD be a theory, and if it *is* all strategery, my hat's off again...