Edwards disputes Rice on Iraq invasion

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041010/ts_nm/campaign_iraq_dc&cid=564&ncid=2043

<<The North Carolina senator, appearing on several television news programs, said Saddam's intent to eventually gather weapons of mass destruction was one of dozens of such threats.

"There are lots of threats waiting to happen all over the world," Edwards said. "That doesn't mean that that justifies invading a country."

....
Chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer made his final report to the U.S. Congress last week, concluding Iraq had no unconventional weapons and undermining the administration's main rationale for going to war.


Edwards also noted that of the three countries singled out by Bush as part of an "axis of evil" -- Iraq, North Korea (news - web sites) and Iran -- "you know, we invaded the one of those three that doesn't have nuclear weapons." >>

[goforit]

1. Yah......Bring old Rice out of the woodwork!!!.....

No get out of jail free card on this one!!!!

[ismnotwasm]

2. Don't let up John!

Keep after 'em until they're all GONE

[gratuitous]

3. Of course Georgie picked the one without nukes

Bullies don't pick on the star quarterback, they go after the nerd with tape on his glasses.

[jbfam4]

4. your comment

is priceless !

[cliss]

6. Absolutely.

Stan Goff once wrote that "we go after weak, crippled countries which are not able to defend themselves". There's real heroism for you.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Like a karate black belt attacking and nearly killing a 10yr old girl

or a wheelchair bound individual.

In some states attacking a handicapped individual results in more serious charges.

[txindy]

7. Terrific analogy!

:toast:

[nolabels]

9. I disagree with the talking point and the axis of evil mantra

Sure the other two nations are also small, but much more well armed (Countries do that kind of thing when people screw with them).

Any government with half a brain would have known Iraq was never in same league as the other two in potentiality to threaten. The wimp and his son both only picked on Iraq because spooks and neocons who set it up knew of it's workings. It was already beat up when the US first went after it. The people that went after it knew of modernity that was brought into the place. The only problem BFEE just didn't know of the people, but I think the people over there in Iraq have learned of the bushco by now. This was more of ruse to make the US look big by picking on a helpless (bushco even screwed that up )

Kurds’ suspicion of US grows

by Roj Shuhe, Green Left Weekly
September 27th, 2004

During the last year, the larger protests against the war in Iraq here have featured sizeable and militant contingents from the Kurdish community. At the time of the invasion, the Kurdish population was deeply and evenly divided between those opposing and those favouring the US invasion, but in recent months, support among them for the US war has been weakening.

The cause of Kurdish national liberation in Iraq has interacted in complex ways with US intervention in the region. The creation of a de-facto Kurdish state in northern Iraq was an unintended byproduct of the first Gulf War in 1991. US imperialism has never given the slightest support to Kurdish aspirations for autonomy and statehood. But during the 1991 war, Saddam Hussein’s military drove millions of Kurds out of their homes, creating an immense refugee crisis on the Turkish and Iranian borders. It was to ease the refugee pressure that the US government declared a no-fly zone in northern Iraq. Seizing the opportunity, Kurds set up their own regime, independent of Baghdad.
(snip)
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=6997

[salin]

5. How did Condi get away with saying that Saddam could have nukes

in ten years (said last week) - and not get called on the carpet for the "mushroom cloud" rhetoric espoused by herself, Cheney et al in the leadup to the war (or was it the war vote)? Why isn't she hounded with questions such as... "Condi, why didn't you, in your comments to the public, add the words "in ten years" to your ominous declarations about the risk of a mushroom cloud...?"