EPTIn regards to left over gas from the gulf war... I'm not really surprised some managed to avoid destruction.
All in all, this article is nothing but praying on the uneducated masses.
Wikileaks: Yellowcake Uranium in Iraq - Page 5
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Pkol
Australia176 Posts
In regards to left over gas from the gulf war... I'm not really surprised some managed to avoid destruction. All in all, this article is nothing but praying on the uneducated masses. | ||
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MarCoon
Germany493 Posts
On December 14 2010 09:26 BROotogy wrote: mind=blown Holy shit all these years of mocking Bill O'riely.. and.. I am not gonna stop mocking Bill O'Reilly bcause of this. Well finally we actually learn the truth about what happened back then, without propaganda from the right win nor the left wing. | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
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BlackJack
United States10089 Posts
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Krigwin
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On December 14 2010 09:40 Romantic wrote: Because this isn't justification. The article is horribly wrong... calling degraded yellowcake and chemicals that WE SOLD TO SADDAM WMDs. The article also claimed that Iraq wouldn't want nuclear power because it has oil, which is an out and out lie. Oil is pretty much their only export, and not needing to use it themselves would be a massive plus; they would have access to more foreign money. Saddam admitted in his trial that he only pretended to have WMDs because he was afraid of Iran and he didn't expect the USA would attack. "Derp we found chemicals in Iraq" is not evidence of a continuing WMD program. If you define chlorine as a WMD, ok, sue me I have WMDs in my house. That's exactly my point. If we are to assume there is some justification to the war effort, then we are also to assume it was covered up by people who would have a lot to gain from revealing said justification. That clearly makes no sense. Which raises my question to the OP: why would they keep it secret if it's justification as he claims? | ||
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BROotogy
Eritrea149 Posts
On December 14 2010 10:02 BlackJack wrote: I miss the old days when TL wasn't so large. The first page of comments makes me sad, doesn't seem like anyone even bothered reading the article or even thought about trying to refute it. I usually prefer to read every comment before I post in a thread but now it's impossible when there are 5,000 people posting whatever is on their mind and a thread is 20 pages within the first hour. You realize a mod commented on the first page too, right? | ||
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MoltkeWarding
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Grumbels
Netherlands7028 Posts
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ViruzZ
Sweden19 Posts
On December 14 2010 10:02 BlackJack wrote: I miss the old days when TL wasn't so large. The first page of comments makes me sad, doesn't seem like anyone even bothered reading the article or even thought about trying to refute it. I usually prefer to read every comment before I post in a thread but now it's impossible when there are 5,000 people posting whatever is on their mind and a thread is 20 pages within the first hour. Well put, OP need to change the headline, its missinformed and the quoted article is old news not adding any new facts. | ||
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BlackJack
United States10089 Posts
On December 14 2010 10:05 BROotogy wrote: You realize a mod commented on the first page too, right? Yeah and that doesn't make your post any less subpar | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On December 14 2010 10:02 BlackJack wrote: I miss the old days when TL wasn't so large. The first page of comments makes me sad, doesn't seem like anyone even bothered reading the article or even thought about trying to refute it. I usually prefer to read every comment before I post in a thread but now it's impossible when there are 5,000 people posting whatever is on their mind and a thread is 20 pages within the first hour. that happened in the 'old days' as well, quite often actually since they were more lenient back then | ||
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Dimagus
United States1004 Posts
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bone577
Australia65 Posts
On December 14 2010 10:02 BlackJack wrote: I miss the old days when TL wasn't so large. The first page of comments makes me sad, doesn't seem like anyone even bothered reading the article or even thought about trying to refute it. I usually prefer to read every comment before I post in a thread but now it's impossible when there are 5,000 people posting whatever is on their mind and a thread is 20 pages within the first hour. This. Read the article. Nothing new at all. All it seems to state is that their were some non-active and minimal remnants of the weapons programs of the pre-gulf-war era when it was known that Iraq was attempting to develop WMDs, and Iraq was on friendly terms with the US, especially for their war against Iran. It isn't indicative of a more recent weapons program, it isn't new or surprising information, the thread title is terribly misleading. | ||
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VIB
Brazil3567 Posts
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stork4ever
United States1036 Posts
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Offhand
United States1869 Posts
On December 14 2010 09:30 Krigwin wrote: Why would they keep a lid on this if it provides justification for the entire war effort? Because nothing found actually amounts to a weapon. Just the capacity to make one. + Show Spoiler + In a herp derp chemicals = weapons kind of way. | ||
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pfods
United States895 Posts
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Offhand
United States1869 Posts
On December 14 2010 10:00 Pkol wrote: All in all, this article is nothing but praying on the uneducated masses. If it actually gets people to read the rest of leaks, the US can have all the confirmed-but-hidden WMDs in Iraq that it wants. The US corporate media has been talking around the wikileaks issue since the leaks started generating press at more independent news agencies. It turns out we can ignore war crimes and politicians being generally horrible people but something that vindicates the chest-thumping conservative opinion (see post below), it could actually cause them to stop dismissing anything that wikileaks releases out of hand. Major media hasn't actually been reporting the leaks, just the fact that Assange is chilling in a British prison. | ||
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TributeBoxer
United States163 Posts
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Firereaver
India1701 Posts
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