[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
Hussein not only had a well-developed chem- and bio-weapons capability, he had used it before and inflicted tens of thousands of casualties in so doing. .[/quote]
Yes, it’s a well established fact that we helped with that in the early 80s. Then provided cover with the UN when Iran complained about it to them.
[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
You can assert the familiar neo-con conspiracy argument, but that runs into trouble when you look at the facts and facts from sources outside of the US and the US intelligence community (a point I made above)..[/quote]
Talk about assertion. It’s a well known fact that the intelligence was crap and twisted by dozens of intellgence officers across the globe. The downy street memo was the M16 admitteding it was cooked as well as, at least a dozen, former intelligence and insiders in the US
Oh, are you saying we relied on some secret report from the netherlands that nobody knows about? That also turned out to be wrong?
The neo-cons have names and put out reports – it sure IS NOT secret that they were gunning for him in the mid 90s. No conspiracy needed, the publically announced the severity of the matter in 98 and 2000.
Colin Powel from Feb 2001. Maybe he did not get the secret Dutch report you are talking about.
