[Yorick]

Originally posted by MagiK: Radek, I really do not know where you get your ideas from. They appear not to resemble reality at all. Buit I am going to try one more time to answer your questions. 1. You are just using semantics, the USA would have gone and executed Desert Storm no matter what the UN says. The UN is not the arbiter of everything legal and illegal. The US. has acknowledged no binding subjugation to the UN legal system...not that there is one. 2. Your in ability to understand that the very nature of a piece of information being able to be traced back to a source indicates you really need to read more about how intelligence works (I worked in Intelligence for 10 years, so I do know just a little of what I am talking about). Your assertion that the Inspectors are an ally on our side is silly. The inspectors are innefective because they telegraph their intent hours ahead of time, so that any site they do visit the site is well prepared for their arrival. (It isnt hard to spot a convoy of White UN vehicles kicking up dust in Iraq) The presidential palaces are not single buildings, they are not multiple buildings, they are entire areas of space, the one in the north that I am most concerned with is several thousand acres large with unknown amounts of under ground facilities tunnled into the mountasins, it is known to be an extensive system though. NO UN inspector to date has come within a hundred miles of the place. As for questioning my truthfulness, I was a bit insulted by this.. the Mustard Gas was found by the current group of inspectors and reported in international news journals. They found the Artillery Shells used to deliver it and the Gas right where the last group of inspectors left them So please do not accuse me of telling lies unless you have incontrovertible proof that I am. I may ocassionally be misinformed, but I do not lie in these forums. 3. Please produce one document from the inspectors detailing their search of a presidential palace. The Presidential palaces have not been searched, nor are they "Searched All the time" that statement was ridiculous. There isn't any site in Iraq that is searched "all the time". 4. On this point you completely missed my point and did not understand what I said at all. Either english is not your first language, in which case its no big deal, or you are just trying to twist the subject. 5. My numbers are those accepted by the UN...where do you get yours? Oh and don't go claiming that all of the casualties are due to american or coalition forces..remember those pretty CNN films of thousands of tracer rounds being shot into the sky by Iraqi anti-aircraft weapons? Guess where those rounds came down? Right int he middle of population centers. When you shoot into the air..the bullets come back down and can still kill. My numbers are correct. ours are in error. (correct being a reletive term since none of the numbers are gouing to be exact.) 6. You didn't have a 6th point...but you are starting to remind me of a certain someone on this forum that I have not seen in a while...all you need to do is throw in an Ad homm and or a straw man and the connection would be complete.

Well said Magik.

Did you guys know that the guitarist in my band is the son of Richard Butler, the Australian who was head of UN weapons inspections in Iraq for a fair while, and was the most hated man in Iraq during that time. Effigies were made of him and burned.

Anyhow, I'm siding with you and Ronn on this one Magik.

Love point six btw.