Frontpage InterviewÂ’s guest today is Bill Tierney, a former military intelligence officer and Arabic speaker who worked at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and as a counter-infiltration operator in Baghdad in 2004. He was also an inspector (1996-1998) for the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) for overseeing the elimination of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in Iraq. He worked on the most intrusive inspections during this period and either participated in or planned inspections that led to four of the seventeen resolutions against Iraq.
I read this article tonight, and I really want the people who say that there were no WMD's in Iraq at all, to read it also. As someone who was in the military I can tell you that one of the things we trained for on a regular basis was NBC (Nuclear,Biological,Chemical) warfare. And as a Security Forces troop, we were required to carry all of our chem gear on duty at all times. For the troops who went over to Iraq or even spent anytime at all in the "Sandbox" the threat of being hit with NBC weapons was ever present.
So go read the artical, see what the man has to say and try and make an informed decision. Don't just parrott the different party lines, and that goes for both lefties and righties.
That article doesn't say anything. It's simply PR rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteActually it says a lot. There were WMD's in Iraq. We have had IED's made out of sarin gas shells that have been used to attack our troops. That is on the record http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4997808/
ReplyDeleteOne of the things that I find amusing is that Iraq was supposed to have completly dismanteled its WMD programs and weapons.
By having one single obsolete weapon that was even capable of holding some sort of WMD then Iraq was in violation of the UN security council resoulution. There didn't need to be stock piles or masive bombardment weapons to have a WMD capacity.
This is one of those "Let's just go DO it and make up excuses for it later" kind of things. This was not justification enough. Hell, Iraq officials might not even have known about that one "single obsolete" weapon. that would be funny.
ReplyDeleteRadical empiricalism at it's best. It's sad, really. This planet is turning into a big police state. Maybe that's what we need in the world now with the threat of terrorism but they could at least be honest with us.
"Yes, citizens, we are in fact policiing the world. We will not longer make excuses for it".
Then we could make inteligent decisions about their objectives and not be slapped around with quarter truths so they can make up our minds for us. We are tools to the governemnt and we let it continue.
Articles like this only helps their machine. Good job!
Well, I may not agree with you, but you are entitled to your opinions.
ReplyDeleteI will say that for myself, I believed there were WMD's in Iraq, furthermore. I beleive that many, many others thought the same way I did.
We may have been wrong, and we are going to have to deal with the results of our being wrong for many years to come.
That being said, What we have done in Iraq is a good thing, People are no longer being thrown into shredders and whole families and villages are not being executed and thrown into mass graves.
We have made our bed, and while it is most definatly not very comfortable, we do have to sleep in it. For if we abandon what we have started, then every troop that has been wounded or killed, then their sacrifice will have been in vain, and I know for a fact that many in the military do not want to pull out at all untill we get the job done.