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Message 91 of 94 (420385)
09-07-2007 4:14 PM
Reply to: Message 90 by GDR
09-07-2007 4:00 PM


Re: Iraq
However those uses were about a decade earlier and it also ignores both the effect of the blockade and the reports of the UN Inspectors.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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Message 92 of 94 (420396)
09-07-2007 5:31 PM
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09-07-2007 4:00 PM


Re: Iraq
My memory is that there was a lot of skepticism in the UK. The government went along, but quite possibly more out of a desire to keep good relations with the US. IIRC the UK government initially tried to persuade the U.S. to wait for the UN Inspectors. I'm pretty sure that the French didn't beleive it, which is why they stayed out of the war.
Chemical weapons were used by the Iraqis - but not even in the first Gulf War.

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Message 93 of 94 (420410)
09-07-2007 6:37 PM
Reply to: Message 92 by PaulK
09-07-2007 5:31 PM


Re: Iraq
PaulK writes:
My memory is that there was a lot of skepticism in the UK. The government went along, but quite possibly more out of a desire to keep good relations with the US. IIRC the UK government initially tried to persuade the U.S. to wait for the UN Inspectors. I'm pretty sure that the French didn't beleive it, which is why they stayed out of the war.
I believe that the UK intelligence agreed with American intelligence on the Issue. As far as the French are concerned, I think it had as much to do with the fact that they were dealing under the counter with Hussein in contravention of the US food for arms embargo.
In the end though, Iraq has, in my view, been a disaster. It was supposed to make us safer from terrorist threats which it probably has in the short term. In the longer term though I think that it has put the world at much greater risk.

Everybody is entitled to my opinion.

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Message 94 of 94 (420471)
09-08-2007 12:37 AM


Long past closing time
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