Will Iraq use Chemical weapons?

[Gonz]

Obviously, no. Iraq is unfinished business & it does double duty by helping with Iran. Look at the larger picture.

 

[Squiggy]

The big picture is that the entire world was ready to back us up after 9/11 and now we're downn to a rowboat full of Spaniards and Portugese...He has all but aligned the world against us.

 

[Gonz]

Don't bet on it. Germany is already involved in Iraq. France "may be". Russia has no dogs in this race & China is waiting their chance.

 

[Squiggy]

You mean we're tricking them into thinking we're coming alone?

 

[Gonz]

Since when does 30 nations support = unilateral?

 

[Squiggy]

Its paper support at best. You know as well as I, that most of them are supporting us for the exact same reason France didn't. Self interests.

 

[Gonz]

'91...Gulf Stream ...kicking saddam outta Kuwaut...50 countries support....5 nations troops-not much difference.

 

[Squiggy]

Big difference. Those were the right countries to claim as support. This is like the boyscouts try to help a firecompany put out a refinery fire.

 

[Squiggy]

And the fact that the whole world was there to support us but he alienated them doesn't register with you?

 

[Gonz]

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG
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Those were the right countries to claim as support.

Here is a list of the countries involvement in Desert Storm. It was the US, SA & the UK that provided the men & machines.

Here is todays story (war hasn't begun, we'll see later wh actively participated

SECRETARY of State Colin Powell has said 45 nations are backing the United States in the coalition that may soon go to war with Iraq.

Powell said 30 of those countries - who had offered troops, overflight rights, logistical support and assistance and Iraqi reconstruction projects - were willing to be named publicly, while 15 preferred to remain anonymous for the present.

"Thirty nations have publicly said they can be included," he said in a State Department interview with international news agencies. The 15 others "will be known in due course".

The department later released a list of the countries that it said were included in what it called the "Coalition for the Immediate Disarmament of Iraq".

Those countries include: Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Britain, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and Uzbekistan.

 

[Gonz]

Let's see, who's missing???

Hmmm, could it be FRANCE????

 

[Squiggy]

If you twist the facts a little tighter, you'll probably get a poodle to fall out somewhere.

 

[outside looking in]

You're wasting your time Gonz. I've explained all this in detail to Squiggy. Different points of view, different opinions. Isn't freedom great?

 

[outside looking in]

It's no surprise that France is once again screwing up. They did in 91. They have several times over the past several decades. Nothing new.

 

[Professur]

Several of the countries on that list don't even have a standing military. Or even a military budget.

 

[Squiggy]

Beware the Ethiopian Army. I hear they're so thin, they're invisible.

 

[Gonz]

Several of the countries on that list don't even have a standing military. Or even a military budget.

Beware the Ethiopian Army. I hear they're so thin, they're invisible.

offered troops, overflight rights, logistical support and assistance and Iraqi reconstruction projects

 

[Gonz]

If he doesn't have them, how can he use them?

UNITED NATIONS — Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said Tuesday he does not believe Iraq will use chemical or biological weapons during a war, even though it can produce warheads and deadly agents to fill them.

The reason, he said, was world opinion would turn in favor of the United States if Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction.

Madness, this way lies

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

What kind of a thinking person would say such a thing? Unless that was taken out of context it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

 

[Gonz]

final paragraph

Asked whether he believed Saddam would use such weapons, if he has them, Blix said: "I think they would be able if the weapons were there -- and I'm not saying they are. And I'm not saying that they have means of delivery -- but they could have it. ... But I doubt that they would have the will to do it."