Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 1999, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]February 2000[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_feb_2000.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .

Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 July Through 31 December 1999, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]August 2000[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_aug2000.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .

Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2000, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]February 2001[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_feb_2001.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .

And then after Bush restricted the Intelligence that Congress got to see after 9-11, the Intelligence started hinting their may be WMD’s.

May 13th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Yes, because Fahrenheit 9/11 which played for 4 solid months prior to the 2004 Presidential election really did a whole lot of good in getting a Democratic President AND a Democratic Congress elected.
More seriously, I don’t think he could get a halfway decent documentary produced and IN the theaters with just 5 months’ work. And, significantly, even if he could get the doc produced and ready for theaters that quickly, I don’t think many theater owners would be willing to book this film given the way the FICTIONALIZED Iraq War movies have largely died at the box office in the last year. And documentaries have done very little box office–the travesty known as Expelled is the year’s biggest documentary, and it’s only taken in $7.25 million after 4 weeks, losing more than 50% of the box office take with each weekend (Scorsese’s Shine a Light doc about the Rolling Stones is the year’s #2 so far with just over $5 million after 6 weeks which means the top 2 docs of 2008 have a monthlong combined take of less than Speed Racer’s lousy box office single 3-day opening weekend; rather depressing when it’s put that way).

What gives, a topic like this outta be freak central!

It will only remind us how the country should have listened to Moore in the first place. We can’t take back all the lives that have been lost since that time, or give back the billions and billions of dollars wasted that could be helping Americans deal with the current economy.

These folks need us just like we need them. (Can you hear U2’s “One” playing in the background?)

Bomb Sniffing Dogs Removed from WTC 9/6/01

NORAD Air Defense COMPLETE failure.

Just because you criticize something, does not mean you are not being supportive. Being critical is the only thing that will save the skins of our troops, America’s reputation not to mention the Iraqi population, and any other innocent lover of life this happens to spill out of control towards.

Serious and non-mocking question for you Anymouse:
What would a troop(s) of any nationality have to do for you to consider it storm trooper behavior? Physically describe so I can grasp a clear picture of your moral line. Remember, any nationality. I am open to your answer. No judgment. Just for clarity of our conversation.

Thank you.

The bloody murder wreaked on the innocent in Iraq by the United States makes any good they’ve done completely meaningless.

So TP thinks 9/11 was inside job?

If only you were that slick. I’m losing count of aliases, blackdude. Are you keeping track?

anymouse20 Says:
I apologize for the fat joke. But how can you praise a guy who has this headlined on his website?

“May 13th, 2008
Women and Children First; U.S. troops kill ‘em all just in case …”
And yet, he has nothing at all posted about any good the troops may have ever done. I guess to Moore, the troops are just murdering, rapist thugs who do no good whatsoever. There’s your hero. Send him your money.

Let’s just be clear here: it appears that you’re proposing a standard whereby public figures are judged solely by the headlines that appear on their websites, and that their value to public discourse can be comfortably praised or condemned based on an interpretation of that evidence.

Is that the case? Because it seems to be the basis for the argument you present above. I just want to be clear on your intent.

It was, you know. The simple fact that our troops are Americans does NOT preclude them from acting like barbarians – or storm troopers.

Keltoi Says:

Your quote reminded me of something Durbin said on the floor of the Senate a few years ago, basically to the effect that US troops were behaving similar to Nazi stormtroopers. I guess it was Kerry who said US troops were terrorizing Iraqis, I got my hyberbolic Senatorial America bashing mixed up, my bad.

Yeah, sadly, that’s a well-known side-effect of simplifying and distorting Senatorial statements for partisan demonizing.