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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-25-04 01:13 PM
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6. Important information that she herself should memorize....
And then recite on Fauxsnooze every night for the next 8 weeks.

http://www.democracynow.org/print.pl?sid=03/07/15/1423259

>>GLEN RANGWALLA: Well, one of the most interesting things really, in recent claims by the U.S. administration has been reference to how the United Nations in its claim, the United States claim was verifying the suspicions they had of Iraq’s weapons.

So Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday's ABC program said--probably as his key justification for the belief that he had prior to the invasion--that the United Nations were estimating that Iraq had the capability to use chemical and biological weapons. That was, as it were his key pinch line in justifying why he believed that Iraq had these weapons. Now that is completely in contrast to what the United Nations itself was saying. The inspectors on the ground last found weapons in Iraq and declared them in 1994. That's when they destroyed the last chemical weapons inside the country.

>>Since 1994 they have not found a single item of chemical or biological warfare inside the country. And have related their suspicions as they're obliged do, that Iraq could have developed some material before 1991. That it still retained and it could have retained some equipment from that period. But they have no evidence, as they have continually said, of an ongoing program to retain or develop chemical and biological weapons that they were reasonably confident of. And for Donald Rumsfeld to go on ABC to say that the United Nations was saying that Iraq had the capability to use chemical and biological weapons is a complete misrepresentation of the facts of this case.<<


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