From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WMD in the Real World
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 18:38:00 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I am *seriously* Not Interested in reading an apologia for our Lying
Leader's war in Iraq on this list and hope it will not continue.

--Ted White

----- Original Message -----
From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "WSFAList (E-mail)" <WSFAList at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:10 PM
Subject: [WSFA] WMD in the Real World

> Barry humorously suggested that Saddam's WMD programs might be found
> on Mars rather than Syria as Dr. Kay seriously suggested.  Barry and
about
> 50 other comedians.
> The critical difference between George W. Bush and Kofi Annan is
> that the former takes the UN and international commitments seriously
while
> the latter does not.  Various people wanted a "robust" inspection program
of
> about 5,000 inspectors guarded by 10,000+ troops before going to war.
> Leaving aside the difference between 15,000 allied forces in country and
> 150,000 allied forces in country from the Iraqi point of view, what would
> the 5,000 inspector force have accomplished?  The actual 150 inspector
force
> turned up actual, physical, touch them and count them illegal weapons in
the
> form of long range rockets.  CBS News showed file footage of those
rockets
> in the last week.  What did the UN do when confronted with the evidence?
> Answer:  Nothing.  Well, nothing effective.  Just pass another resolution
> for Saddam to ignore.  If 5,000 inspectors had turned up 30 times as much
> evidence as the 150 inspectors actually did, the UN would just have
closed
> its eyes 30 times as tightly.  The moral case for war was adequate
without
> 5,000 inspectors wasting time before the Iraqi people were freed.
> Putting together a coalition?  I kind of thought that 63 nations
> contributing people and other resources was a coalition.  As a point of
> comparison, the original UN was only composed of 51 nations.  UN support?
> Strictly a fig leaf under the American constitutional system.  Bill
Clinton
> certainly didn't have any UN support when he launched his war in Kosovo,
and
> Wes Clark cites that war as the example of how to do things.  To the
extent
> that UN approval is desirable, Resolution 1441 was all the authority
> necessary.  As stated above, George Bush took it seriously; Kofi Annan
among
> others didn't.  As the Iraqi ambassador to the UN recently stated to that
> body, George Bush freed the Iraqi people when Kofi Annan and other
critics
> didn't.
>