AP 1/31 Wolfowitz says Iraq war justified because Saddam ignored

[grasswire]

Mods: I'm posting this because the news is that Wolfowitz is STILL REPEATING THIS SAME GODDAM LIE.

Wolfowitz says Iraq war justified because Saddam ignored U.N. demands

AP Germany

The United States was justified in going to war against Iraq because Saddam Hussein violated U.N. resolutions ordering him to disarm, the Pentagon's second-in-command said Saturday.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said flawed intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction should be investigated, but the inability of inspectors to find such weapons did not mean the war was unnecessary.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/31/international1241EST0557.DTL

How the hell can he say this when OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE NO WEAPONS????

[ogminlo]

1. So let's get this straight:

Iraq was defying th UN by not coming clean on their massive stockpiles of unconventional weapons.

They had no weapons to come clean on.

All current and former members of PNAC should be put on a rocket and launched into the sun.

[alittlelark]

8. Don't be so cruel!

A new mission to mercury should be launched - with the PNACers as the heroic 1st astronauts!:evilgrin:

[calimary]

19. I'd send them to Alpha Centauri.

Let the burning begin when they die of old age and arrive across the River Styx.

[Thor_MN]

12. Yeah, why pick on the sun?

I mean, why pollute the sun with PNAC remains? I'd say launch them into deep space, but who knows what price we'd pay for polluting the universe? I don't know that you could just throw them away, it would really require some type of hazardous waste treatment...

[Zhade]

21. I second that notion.

I'll even chip in for the rocket fuel.

[Just Me]

35. Wolfowitz is ULTRA right wing,...

,...as he has unconsciously become what he most fears,...another form of nazi except his target is not merely a "race", it is anyone who disagrees with his "hellish" perspective of the world. Wolfowitz is a very, very sick cookie. They are all very, very sick people at the front of this new millenneum. I suppose it is better we have them exposed at the beginning, than somewhere in the middle or end :D

[saigon68]

42. a CHICKENHAWK Bastard

Name: Paul Wolfowitz
Born: 1943
Employer: The U.S. Taxpayer
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
Notes: Deputy Secretary for Defense - yet another Bush administration man in the Pentagon who has no idea what it's like to wear a uniform. He got a BA at Cornell in 1965. Maybe if we'd had a guy as bright as he thinks he is in Vietnam, it would have turned out differently

[9215]

37. Mind boggling ain't it.

I'm out of expletives.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Wolfowitz is a scumbag

PNAC weasel.

#1 hit
Global Destabilization and Domination
by Wolfowitz and the PNAC Twitz

[GovtMule]

3. How many U.N. resolutions have Israel and Turkey violated?

I'm so sick of these excuses. How long will it take the American public to see through this?

[beanball]

16. Wait a New York minute.

Israel and Turkey are our good friends, its alright for them to defy the UN,you see we have the VETO.

[Zhade]

22. THANK you.

Israel, for example - 60+ violations, and we still fund their collective punishment war crimes.

[SquireJons]

27. 273 Days

... and counting down. I wonder if there will be criminal trials after our own regime change?

[icymist]

38. Doubt It!

Only the victor can claim criminal trials!

[icymist]

39. Doubt It!

Only the victor can claim criminal trials!

[JCMach1]

4. Bush ignored the U.N. -- Does that mean>>???

Just thought I would ask the question...

By that logic, BUSH should be taken out.

I hope America will do just that.

[Thor_MN]

13. Well, by their own logic, don't we have to pre-emptively dispose of them?

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[earthside]

5. Orwellian

It is so Orwellian.

Hey, I'm sick too of all the references these days to George Orwell and '1984'. But it is so accurate ... you have to use the analogies.

In this case, Wolfowitz mentions the UN, but Hans Blix and UNMOVIC have been incinerated in the 'memory hole' ... the UN weapons inspectors have historically ceased to exist for the Bush regime apologists.

Please read the commentary: 'This You Must Remember'
http://www.earthside.com/remember.html

The FACT that the UN inspectors were there on the ground in Iraq means tht the best available intelligence/information at the time was that Saddam did not have WMD. But Bush purposefully ignored this FACT and ordered the attack. That makes him an undisputed liar ... and frankly, a murderer.

DC

[icymist]

40. Frankly, A war

Criminal.

[bushwakker]

6. Not enuf bad things can happen to this scumbag

he should be jailed

[loudnclear]

7. Well, shall we invade Israel also because they sure have ignored UN?

What a silly, silly position to take...and to think these people are in position of power!

[Barkley]

9. When will Wolfowitz admit it: France was right all along!

"Wolfowitz says Iraq war justified because Saddam ignored U.N. demands."

I thought the U.N. was "irrelevant"?

[Just Me]

36. Since France was "right", Wolfowitz et al view them as "the enemy" EOM

[pinto]

10. "There's a big uncertainty about what we're going to need in the future, "

Wolfowitz on troop size.....stay tuned.

[kskiska]

11. Here's another of our 17 reasons

why we invaded Iraq:

We wanted to, dammit.

[Thor_MN]

14. And because we could.

But in my mind, being a true "Superpower" means you don't need to.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. How can he lie about it?

By opening his mouth and regurgitating words.

He does it as easily as other members of the junta lie about the justifcations for the invasion.

[Snappy]

17. Neo Fascists

I am waiting for the Congress, our reps, to develope spines. Yeah, I am not holding my breath.

[mrdmk]

23. Spinal cords are only in higher forms of life.

:)

[peterh]

18. UN inspectors find zipo prior….

The Survey group finds nada after…
Wolfy says SH ignored demands and war was necessary….


Soooo, no WMD have been found but he still ignored the demands to disarm….no matter how many times you say it, the vacancy light stays on…

[ewagner]

20. And you are forgetting

That Iraq filed (what was it?) 12,000 pages saying that it didn't have any weapons. And the Bushbots deleted something like 6000 of those pages.

He didn't defy the UN..he filed a document which turns out to be the truth!

[indepat]

24. Could not all wars started in the 20th century be justified by the same

reasons claimed by the neocons? Could not any stronger nation always justify crushing a weaker nation using their criteria? Couldn't we attack almost any other nation on the face of the earth using the reasons they have given?

[scisyhp]

31. 20th century?

You can find all the same war rhetoric in "Gaellic Wars" by
Julius Caesar. And he stakes no claim to having invented it
either. It is truly astounding how little did changed over the
last 2500 years. A literary character from "Thin Red Line"
summed it all up best: "Property, it's all about property".

[Tommy]

25. dead gi s

wonder how many government guys ever saw an american boy with his brains blown out. that white jello is one of our kids brains or maybe it s ok cause theyre poor or black . we can t ask the government to care they are rich men that never say war. but there are generals that were young once and they know. maybe they can tell the truth.

[grasswire]

26. welcome to DU, Tommy

Thanks for posting your thoughts.

[lumpy]

28. Finding WMDs is almost a requisite now if

the Bushcos want to stay in power. Betcha anything Bushco is still trying to figure out a way to plant some of those babies before the next election.

[Langis]

29. ARG!!! Bush did not have UN approval!

So they can't use the UN resolution bullshit! I hate the US media.

[mrdmk]

30. Here is some interesting reading on Mr. Paul Wolfowitz

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/wolfowitz/wolfowitz.php

[pinniped]

32. Someone tell POS wolfy that he hasn't checked out of the Baghdad Hotel...

yet. Go back and pay your bill, the friendly locals want to thank you in person for the liberation.

[young_at_heart]

33. Using that rationale means other nations will need to be invaded

Any time a dictator or government "ignores" the UN it's obviously America's job to invade and set up democracy as we see fit.

[icymist]

41. Yeah.

Don't that make you feel safer?

[kentuck]

34. Well, Bush gave him 48 hours to get out of town....

How much fairer could he have been? <sarcasm off>