Now I've heard it all! Saddam was MORE dangerous than they thought ???

[non sociopath skin]

I used to wonder whether I was crazy or they were. Now I know it's them!

The logic of this is wondrous to behold!
The Skin


Saddam Threat 'Greater Than Feared'
Jack Straw claims Saddam was a 'starker' threat than imagined before

A key report on Saddam Hussein's weapons shows he was an even greater threat than previously thought, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.

The group hunting for the dictator's weapons of mass destruction is expected to announce that it has found no evidence of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

But Mr Straw said the Iraq Survey Group report proves that "in terms of his intention", Saddam was an "even starker" threat than thought.

Mr Straw said Saddam would have built up WMD if he had not been ousted from power.

Speaking on a trip to Baghdad, he said: "I personally am in no doubt whatever that had we walked away from Iraq and left Iraq to Saddam, Saddam would have indeed built up his capabilities, built up his strength and posed an even greater threat to the people of Iraq and the people of the region than before."

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http://channels.aolsvc.co.uk/news/article.adp?id=20041006103009990008&n=collection&p=news&c=news

[bowens43]

1. Total bullshit especially in light of the fact

that the report also says that saddam's ability to create WMD was diminishing. These people are amazing.

[George_S]

2. people of Iraq and the people of the region ????

How is that an imminent threat to us?

[mcdot]

3. SNARK!!!!

LMFAO! He was a threat because he WASN'T a threat? Oh, pleeeeeze!

Didn't they pull this one outta their ass about 6 months ago, and that Zep crashed and burned. Why are they trotting it out yet AGAIN????

Sad thing is, in this whole debacle, Saddam was the only one telling the TRUTH. That is seriously cheneyed!

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Welcome to Nineteen Eighty Four

"Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed — would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper— the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever."

"'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'."

The beauty of Straw's position is that, by attacking a country when it is at its weakest, you can always justify it by saying the country would have grown stronger in the future. So now any country is justified in attacking any other, whether or not it has done anything wrong, or if it presents any threat. For instance, an increase in the vote of the British National Party from 1% to 2% would allow Pakistan to nuke the UK, because, if you extrapolate that, the BNP would take over the country and want to do bad things to Pakistanis. Thanks, Jack, that's a really comforting international principle you've come up with there.

[mcdot]

4. ALSO....

I've harbored many a wicked thought in my mind for YEARS. Should I be arrested for all my evil thoughts that may yet come to fruition in a decade when I go completely mad?

This is ridiculous!

[Maeve]

6. Down the rabbit hole, thru the mirror and into the world of fantasy

And the goblins will get ya if ya don't watch out!

[Dudley_DUright]

7. Someone is "starkers" in that story, but it ain't Saddam

It is Jack Straw and Tony Blair that are "Starkers" (as in stark raving mad)if they think the report vindicates their terrible decisions.