The twenty lies of GB.

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com 
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Robert Dean
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:04 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: The twenty lies of GB.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:34:43 -0800
>  joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at sun.com> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > >Lie No. 4: "Peaceful efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime
> > have failed again
> > >and again because we are not dealing with peaceful men."
> > >
> > >According to the Washington Post of March 16, referring
> > to the 1991-1998
> > >inspection period: "[U]nder UN supervision, Iraq
> > destroyed 817 of 819
> > >proscribed medium-range missiles, 14 launchers, 9
> > trailers and 56 fixed
> > >missile-launch sites. It also destroyed 73 of 75
> > chemical or biological
> > >warheads and 163 warheads for conventional explosives.
> > UN inspectors also
> > >supervised destruction of 88,000 filled and unfilled
> > chemical munitions,
> > >more than 600 tons of weaponized and bulk chemical
> > weapons agents, 4,000
> > >tons of precursor chemicals and 980 pieces of equipment
> > considered key to
> > >production of such weapons."
> 
> This is usually my tripping point when arguing an anti war 
> position....The pro war folks say that it was only because of 
> the threat of force that Iraq was into disarmament....What's 
> a good counter to that?

Read the dates when this destruction happened: 1991 - 1998, that is
under CLINTON's administration that was not as warmongering as the Bush
junta.

Wojtek