Text 15473, 70 rader
Skriven 2008-05-17 11:49:13 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 15457 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Unrest in France
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16 May 08 05:39, Bob Ackley wrote to Roy Witt:

 BA> Replying to a message of Roy Witt to Bob Ackley:

 BA>>> There was no such issue WRT Iraq.

 RW>> Right, that one stemmed from Hussein's refusal to allow weapons
 RW>> inspectors to do their job, for 11 years after he agreed to do so by
 RW>> UN mandate.

 BA> Which if it were true

It is.

 BA>  - and it isn't - would be a problem for the UN,

Right, which fell on it's face when it came to enforcing the many mandates
they came up with since the end of the first Gulf War.

 BA> not for the US unless the UN asked for its help.

Since the UN turned it's back on Iraq and Afghanistan, as in worthless,
somebody had to take the initiative.

 BA> And the UN did not not do that.

I know. After 11 years of talking about it, they wanted to spend more time
talking about it.

 BA> The UN also apparently chose not to act on any of the supposedly
 BA> thousands (according to the US administration and its supporters in
 BA> the right wing media)

There is no subh thing as the 'right wing' media. It's all run by liberals
who make up shit. As in what the Administration was up to.

 BA>  of treaty violations on the part of Iraq; again, those supposed
 BA> violations were a problem for the UN, not for the US, to deal with.

Since the UN refused to act, it became our problem.

 BA> Hans Blix, chief of the UN weapons inspectors, said he and his people
 BA> were being allowed access to anything they wanted anywhere they
 BA> wanted in Iraq

Not true. Hans Blix was thwarted by Iraqi officials during his inspections
and has reported this to the UN on several occasions. In late 2002 and
early 2003, he reported more cooperation than before, but that cooperation
wasn't anywhere near what resolution 1441 (which Hussein agreed to) would
allow.

 BA> - they left Iraq because George W. Bush threatened them with harm

You misspelled Saddam Hussein...

 BA> once his invasion started. Bush had to get them out of there

No he didn't. They were already out of there. See above.

 BA>  and get his war going before they proved his accusations were
 BA> baseless - which, of course, they were.

The only thing baseless are your accusations.

                R\%/itt



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