inignoct wrote:
] ] Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who urged the United
] ] Nations to endorse a preemptive war to strip Iraq of its
] ] weapons of mass destruction, conceded yesterday that
] ] Saddam Hussein's government may have no longer had such
] ] munitions.
]
] [ well, how about that. ] -k

David Kay just resigned his post in Iraq, stating the same thing, that Iraq has no WMDs.

People who cling to the notion that we will eventually find the weapsons need to wake up. The US government lied to invade Iraq. Pretty simple.

Hijexx wrote:
] David Kay just resigned his post in Iraq, stating the same
] thing, that Iraq has no WMDs.
]
] People who cling to the notion that we will eventually find
] the weapsons need to wake up. The US government lied to
] invade Iraq. Pretty simple.

damn right. of course, he want's to shoot for the stars and get men on Mars. he must be a good guy.

blegh. i'm strongly considering france.

Jeremy wrote:
] What we demanded of Iraq was that they account for all
] of this and they prove the negative of our hypothesis."
]
]
] Did he just say that? Prove the negative?

Isn't that pretty much what we were asking though? There were reams of pages of documents showing that Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons from previous years -- this was a fact, verified by both weapon inspectors and Iraq itself. Then, despite multiple requests and U.N. resolutions to find out what happened to those stockpiles, Iraq simply denied their existence, rearranged documents to remove evidence of their existence, and systematically blocked inspectors who were trying to verify what had happened to those stockpiles.

Perhaps Powell's sentence could be better worded, but yes, that's what we were asking Iraq to do, is prove that the weapons no longer existed. Prove their absence.