Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
Oh please care Pann , if only to care that is modelled on the social democratic party not the socialist workers party , now of course such little things shouldn't get in the way of ludicrous claims being made , but I do wonder how the Baath party can be modelled on the third reich when the third reich banned the party that it is modelled on
The Third Reich banned Saddam Hussein's Baath Party?
Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
woud you like more cutesy fluffy bunny stories ?
Hey Spartan , perhaps if there was any good news about Iraq the media might be able to report it more...but you see they have been stung rather badly by repeatedly doing "good news " stories they were fed that turned out to be complete bollox .
You can take your bunnies,skin them,and eat them!
Take this as an example: The media is in love with IEDs. They go on and on about them... Soldier killed by IED today,over and over again seemingly every week. Why don't they talk about how the rest of those fallen warriors' 8 - 10 man squads are still alive thanks to his / her sacrifice? Or how 8 out of 10 IEDs are safely disarmed on a regular basis without injury to troops or civilians? Why don't they talk about the Medals of Honor or Silver Stars that have so far been awarded for bravery,selfless action,and service beyond the call of duty? Why don't they talk about that?
Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
Sorry , that appears to make no sense ...can you explain it please ?
If the downing street memo is disputed then how can you explain that Blair does not dispute its authenticity ?
Well,since everyone seems to be throwing Wikipedia at me,this is taken from the article on the memo itself (I left the heading in so its easy to find in the article itself:
Veracity of the memo
Following the advice of company lawyers, Michael Smith, the journalist who first reported on the Downing Street Memo, has said that he protected the identity of his source by reproducing all documents and returning the 'originals' back to the source. In some cases, a document was retyped from a photocopy, and the photocopy destroyed.[46] This has led some to question the document's authenticity, but no official source has questioned it, and it has been unofficially confirmed to various news organizations, including the Washington Post, NBC, The Sunday Times, and the LA Times
And this from the article on the Blair-Bush Memo:
It has become controversial for its content, which shows Bush floating the idea of painting a U-2 spyplane in UN colors and letting it fly low over Iraq to provoke the then-leader Saddam Hussein to shoot it down, providing a pretext for America and Britain's subsequent invasion. It also shows the two making a secret deal to carry out said invasion regardless of whether weapons of mass destruction were discovered by UN weapons inspectors, in direct contradiction with statements Blair made to Parliament afterwards that Saddam would be given a final chance to disarm.
Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
Whereas Saddam had been neutered and they knew that he couldn't attack any of his neighbours any more .
Nazi Germany had been "neutered" after their defeat in WWI,too.