NO "smoking gun" is required for the United States to attack Iraq, US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said.

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The funny parts:


Powell told NBC News today: "The lack of a smoking gun does not mean that there's not one there."

Of course, the lack of evidence also idicates the accusations are baseless.


"If the international community sees that (Iraqi leader) Saddam Hussein is not co-operating in a way that would not allow you to determine the truth of the matter, then he is in violation of the UN resolution (1441)...You don't really have to have a smoking gun."

1) Since when did the US government give a damn about international opinion?

2) ACcording to the UN, Iraq is sticking to the letter of the 1441 agreement.


White House spokesman Ari Fleischer also discounted the significance of Blix's statement, saying: "The problem with guns that are hidden is you can't see their smoke ... We know for a fact that there are weapons there."

This utter dweeb loves spewing out ridiculous slogans and headliners, but he never gives facts or rational comments. What he's saying, in effect, is "Nobody can find any evidence to support our accusations, but we have some anyway, and you will have to trust us on that". Right.

wonder if a case could be made that the US isnt copoerating with resolution 144?

Originally posted by Asguard
wonder if a case could be made that the US isnt copoerating with resolution 144? Most probably, ..starting with blasphemy a case could be established.

But what is the use of it. If you check UN records you’ll find that Israel and US top the list of countries that have not followed UN resolutions.
…So, it will be wasted time.

The case will be made by the world community, and there …the US ca not do a ingle shit! ;-)

We don't need smok from Iraq but it is a diversion from our own home-made radicalism.

read...

http://arizona.indymedia.org/

US/MEX BORDER - A FLASHPOINT FOR HATE Dec 06 2002
Vigilante ranchers - domestic terrorists?
Racism is on the rise in Arizona as right-wing militants take the law in their own hands on the borderlands. Militias have formed in Tombstone and other parts of Cochise County, lurking in the vicinity of water stations placed in the desert by humanitarian groups in order to round up migrants at gunpoint. Last May, border vigilante groups issued a call across the US for others to join their efforts, resulting in a meeting in Sierra Vista attended by ranchers and members of the Ku Klux Klan. Following is a timeline of the recent escalation of violence against migrants in Arizona:

In May of 2000, two Arizona ranchers on horseback armed with high power hunting rifles shot and critically wounded a migrant attempting to cross the border near Sasabe, Arizona.
West of Phoenix, eight migrants have been found shot execution-style since March of this year.

On October 18th 2002, two migrants were murdered in Red Rock, Arizona (Northeast of Tucson in Pinal County) by gunmen dressed in army fatigues.

On November 1st 2002, a group of migrants were fired upon by masked men in the desert about twenty miles southwest of Tucson.