mOOkie
January 29th, 2003, 10:15 AM
I'm getting really tired of hearing this hysterical shit coming from various world leaders and military spokepeople.
We are endlessly told by Bush and Blair et al, that Saddam Hussien possesses the capability to use weapons of mass destruction and that until we send in the troops we won't be able to sleep safely at night. Ironic, considering that someone like Bush should start complaining about despots using these so called 'weapons of mass destruction'. Erm I could be mistaken, but doesn't Bush have enough nuclear weapons to obliterate the entire known world? Doesn't Bush preside over a capabiltiy to manufacture chemical and biological weapons that has only been suspended? I'd love to see how helpful the US would be if Hans Blix and his weapons inspectors turned up at Los Alamos.
Saddam didn't deploy chemical or biological weapons, even when US troops were merely miles outside of Baghdad during Gulf War I. Iraq has no nuclear capabilities, and has no means to deliver a nuclear device bigger than a so called 'dirty bomb' device. Even if Iraq had some SCUDS left over, they have a range that limits any attacks to Israel at the most and thats for non-nuclear warheads.
So the question remains? Why the hysteria about Saddams 'weapons of mass destruction'?
BTW, a major scandal approx 15yrs ago in this country, was that a Sheffield based steel company was caught supplying Iraq with the parts required to construct a 'Supergun' that could have fired chemical shells for 100's of miles out of Iraq. German companies constructed the various military bunkers around Iraq and supplied the chemicals to make various gases. British comanies supplied the technology to manufacture them. Nice.
We are endlessly told by Bush and Blair et al, that Saddam Hussien possesses the capability to use weapons of mass destruction and that until we send in the troops we won't be able to sleep safely at night. Ironic, considering that someone like Bush should start complaining about despots using these so called 'weapons of mass destruction'. Erm I could be mistaken, but doesn't Bush have enough nuclear weapons to obliterate the entire known world? Doesn't Bush preside over a capabiltiy to manufacture chemical and biological weapons that has only been suspended? I'd love to see how helpful the US would be if Hans Blix and his weapons inspectors turned up at Los Alamos.
Saddam didn't deploy chemical or biological weapons, even when US troops were merely miles outside of Baghdad during Gulf War I. Iraq has no nuclear capabilities, and has no means to deliver a nuclear device bigger than a so called 'dirty bomb' device. Even if Iraq had some SCUDS left over, they have a range that limits any attacks to Israel at the most and thats for non-nuclear warheads.
So the question remains? Why the hysteria about Saddams 'weapons of mass destruction'?
BTW, a major scandal approx 15yrs ago in this country, was that a Sheffield based steel company was caught supplying Iraq with the parts required to construct a 'Supergun' that could have fired chemical shells for 100's of miles out of Iraq. German companies constructed the various military bunkers around Iraq and supplied the chemicals to make various gases. British comanies supplied the technology to manufacture them. Nice.