K
Kurgan Gringioni
Guest
[email protected] wrote:
> If they're willing to haul airplanes (it was no secret that they had
> planes) into the middle of the desert and bury them, don't you think
it
> is reasonable to suspect that they'd be willing to do the same things
> with chemical weapons?
Idiot -
You didn't read what General Zinni said did you? He was Tommy Franks'
(the commander of both the Afghan and Iraqi wars, who, by the way, was
against the war for the same reasons as Zinni) predecessor at CENTCOMM
and was privy to thousands if not tens of thousands of bits of
classified evidence above and beyond the lame photos you posted (I
could buy an old warplane and bury it in my backyard, that doesn't make
me a threat to global security). I'll leave in the most relevant bit:
http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/...mentID=2208&from_page=../program/document.cfm
<snip>
The third mistake, I think was one we repeated from Vietnam, we had to
create a false rationale for going in to get public support. The books
were cooked, in my mind. The intelligence was not there. I testified
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee one month before the war,
and Senator Lugar asked me: "General Zinni, do you feel the threat from
Saddam Hussein is imminent?" I said: "No, not at all. It was not an
imminent threat. Not even close. Not grave, gathering, imminent,
serious, severe, mildly upsetting, none of those."
<snip><end>
thanks,
K. Gringioni.
> If they're willing to haul airplanes (it was no secret that they had
> planes) into the middle of the desert and bury them, don't you think
it
> is reasonable to suspect that they'd be willing to do the same things
> with chemical weapons?
Idiot -
You didn't read what General Zinni said did you? He was Tommy Franks'
(the commander of both the Afghan and Iraqi wars, who, by the way, was
against the war for the same reasons as Zinni) predecessor at CENTCOMM
and was privy to thousands if not tens of thousands of bits of
classified evidence above and beyond the lame photos you posted (I
could buy an old warplane and bury it in my backyard, that doesn't make
me a threat to global security). I'll leave in the most relevant bit:
http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/...mentID=2208&from_page=../program/document.cfm
<snip>
The third mistake, I think was one we repeated from Vietnam, we had to
create a false rationale for going in to get public support. The books
were cooked, in my mind. The intelligence was not there. I testified
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee one month before the war,
and Senator Lugar asked me: "General Zinni, do you feel the threat from
Saddam Hussein is imminent?" I said: "No, not at all. It was not an
imminent threat. Not even close. Not grave, gathering, imminent,
serious, severe, mildly upsetting, none of those."
<snip><end>
thanks,
K. Gringioni.