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Reply to NEWS: 'Imbedded' Video Appears to Show Explosives Looted AFTER American Invasion in Politics JoeUser Forums

Daiwa: “Which "theory" is more complex or implausible - Saddam doing exactly what he had practiced in the past, or a bunch of guys in old beat-up Toyota pickup trucks managing to haul off 300 tons (the number has been reduced by the IAEA, BTW) of high explosives while the US had complete control of the roadways and air surveillance? This simply isn’t true. I wrote a pretty extensive article on this subject today and posted it in my blog.

Reply to NEWS: 'Imbedded' Video Appears to Show Explosives Looted AFTER American Invasion in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Matthew Bunn, a Harvard University expert in nuclear weapons and terrorism, said that although he is concerned by the removal of the explosives, he is far more worried by IAEA reports that large quantities of sophisticated equipment, such as electron beam welders, were looted and removed from Iraq's nuclear weapons program. "That material, which would be quite usef

Reply to Endorsement Shocker: 'The Economist' Endorses Kerry in Politics JoeUser Forums

RedneckHunter: "The only Good Bush is a Shaved Bush. For those that want to drag God into it, a Burning Bush." Hahahaha! That's pretty funny. It reminds me of an anti-war protestor's sign I saw while I happened to be in London which read "The only Bush I trust is my own..." and the poster depicted a large mass of hair and....well, you get the idea! Hang in there blogic...<img src="../images/smiles/joke.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmid

Reply to Fallouja...What Happened & Why in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Great articles you posted Kingbee. Thanks for bringing them to my attention while you were visting my blog. It's really amazing that the administration likes to portray this public image that they are taking a "hands off" approach to actual combat missions when in fact they are not, unless of course the whole thing goes wrong and the pass the buck to anyone convenient at the time.

Reply to Commander in Chief Must First Know the Facts in Politics JoeUser Forums

Drmiler, "Sorry but the expolsives shown are not the ones that are supposedly missing!" What makes you come to that conclusion? Everything that I have read and seen says the complete opposite. Secondly, this whole debate of whether there was a media conspiracy to get Bush and whether those explosives were looted before, during, or after the invasion is besides the point. The main issue is whether this war has made us safer or not. Clearly

Reply to Impeach Bush for the lack of security in Iraq in Politics JoeUser Forums

Daiwa, "There aren't enough soldiers in the US, Russian, German and French armies combined to seal or secure the borders" Right. So you would think that this would have gone into the administration's cost/benefit analysis of whether it was worth invading Iraq over THREATENING to invade to get the inspectors back in who knew where all of this stuff was and had it under seal. No. It was better to rush into war KNOWING that weapons caches of hig

Reply to Impeach Bush for the lack of security in Iraq in Politics JoeUser Forums

drmiler, "Your gonna get called on this dude. As far as some on this site are concerned Fox is biased to the right." You are right. I am going to call him on it. And it isn't just me or a few people on the left that thinks FOX is not only biased, it is a stretch of the imagination to call it news when 80% of its content is right-wing commentary instead of ojective reporting. As I have said over and over again...there are many people on the

Reply to Commander in Chief Must First Know the Facts in Politics JoeUser Forums

Steven, haven't you noticed that stating facts isn't as important as being on the "right" side of the argument? Yes. The pun was intentional! In any event, great job!

Reply to GOP does not adopt Racists in Politics JoeUser Forums

Dr. Guy, "The left tries to do this every election to keep the blacks safely in their voting fold, and for the past several elections, it has worked. " And I suppose that all of the Republican fear mongering, religous-right pandering, and telling people that if Kerry is elected he is going to ban the bible is different? These tactics are used by both sides and quite frankly...are nothing but diversions from the real issues at stake. All of

Reply to Missing Explosives: Criticizing Bush is Attack on Troops in Politics JoeUser Forums

Yes. You didn't know by now that if you criticize Bush or his policies you are guilty of treason and could be sentenced to death? NIce, eh?

Reply to Conservative Kerry Endorsements Will Be 2008 Headache in Politics JoeUser Forums

You never know what's going to happen in 2008. If Kerry wins, maybe he will be a much better president than his detractors expect and he will maintain his current support (or add to it) much the way Clinton did in 1996.

Reply to Endorsement Shock: Iraq Hawk Christopher Hitchens for Kerry in Politics JoeUser Forums

It's seems more and more conservatives are deserting Bush and his reckless policies. I guess we just have to wait until Tuesday to see how it all plays out. Good post!

Reply to Anatomy of a Smear, Part 2 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Dr. Guy, the story wasn't even broken by Dan Rather. The New York Times in collaboration with CBS broke the story. Secondly, I had already stated in a prior post: "The reason the IAEA didn't make it public sooner, via a report to the security council, is because they wanted to give the U.S. time to try and track these explosives down or explain what happened to them. The media didn't KNOW about this story until it got a copy of the memo. Le

Reply to Dear Gabby in Humor JoeUser Forums

Hahahahhaha! Hillarious...and oh, so true!

Reply to Anatomy of a Smear, Part 2 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Daiwa, no one said there were "no" WMD "MATERIALS." What was said was that they didn't pose a threat IF inspections were continued. The main point, as I have said over and over and over is that if the U.S. had allowed to IAEA to FINISH their job instead of rushing to war, this whole thing would be a non-issue. And they should have allowed the IAEA back into Iraq AFTER the invasion. To this DAY the U.S. is refusing to allow the IAEA back in? Why wo

Reply to Anatomy of a Smear, Part 2 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

joeKnowledge, "speaking of timely events:" Doesn't the "timing" of the story miss the entire POINT of the real issues here? Who CARES when the story broke? You guys are so caught up in the political spin that you miss the real issue entirely. What matters are the facts and facts are that this adminstration's gross negligence and failed policies have made us LESS safe! It is so ridiculous to keep these conspiracy theories going when there ar

Reply to Anatomy of a Smear, Part 2 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Daiwa, NBC news WITHDREW it's story! And your argument doesn't change the fact that this material was all accounted for prior to the war in Jan. 2003 except for a small amount that was being investigated by the IAEA until the U.S. FORCED them to leave so they could rush to war. Wouldn't it have been better to allow them to finish the job they had started instead of rusing to war and having this all of these explosives missing? The IAEA warned the U.S

Reply to Anatomy of a Smear, Part 2 in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Just for the record, the story broke about 2 weeks ago as I posted an article about it at that time. As for "it was gone before we got close enough to secure it. The next time we have a situation like that, you're welcome to run into the ammo dump and secure it while another army is trying their ever loving best to keep you away from it. And you're right. It does require big equipment. However that big equipment wasn't moving about freely when we roll

Reply to Al Qaeda Numbers Game in Politics JoeUser Forums

CrispE, it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to know how many terrorists there are in the world because the world can't even agree on a definition of what a terrorist IS. And even if it could agree, there is no way of getting an accurate count. So the whole numbers game is a sham.

Reply to Al Qaeda Numbers Game in Politics JoeUser Forums

Steven, I don't mean to post something in your blog response section that is sort of unrelated to your article, but I didn't know of any other way of getting this information to you. Do you remember in one of my articles, (regarding why the Iraq war was making the world more dangerous), I brought up the issue of Zarqawi, his base being in the Kurish-controlled north prior to the war, and the fact that the administration's failure to bomb it led me to

Reply to Proposal for Voter Testing in Politics JoeUser Forums

JillUser, the problem with your proposal is that it's unconstitutional. The right to vote (i.e. the right to choose your representative government) can not be subjected to any type of test. It brings back images of the day when African-Americans had to prove that they could read before they could vote. Efforts such as the one you are suggesting would disenfranchise voters in a system where turnout and participation (this year being an exception) is

Reply to I Have Decided to ENDORSE John Kerry in Politics JoeUser Forums

CrispE: "The current policy of the Bush administration is that inspecting 1 in 20 containers coming into port is sufficient to protect us." Since you have a friend in the business, so to speak, I am sure he also told you that one of the reasons so many containers are not being inspected is because even when they have the latest X-Ray/Scanning technology (which most ports do not) the government doesn't have enough people with the proper securi

Reply to Al Qaeda Numbers Game in Politics JoeUser Forums

SiRMetMan: Excellent point! There is more "fuzzy math" going on in this administration than one can keep up with. Don't get me wrong, all Presidents are guilty to using this tactic to some extent in order to boost their chances for re-election, but this administration's use of it to lull the American people into believing we are "safer" as a result of his disasterous foreign policies, is appalling.

Reply to Terrorism … a War? in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Nor was our paranoia toward Iran justification for arming Saddam. " Accurate point and well noted.

Reply to Al Qaeda Numbers Game in Politics JoeUser Forums

Steven, great argument! I've always said that the adminstration's "numbers game" was misleadingly being manipulated for political point-scoring and had nothing to do with reality. Great job!