John Moore | February 1, 2004
David Kay, a very credible person, has said that he is very disturbed by the pre-war “intelligence failure” regarding Iraq’s WMD capability.
The question that begs asking is: Why?
Given what we know today, it is unlikely that anybody in Iraq knew the true state of their WMD situation. Saddam thought he had the weapons. His army [...]
John Moore | February 1, 2004
Almost all attention to the “failure of pre-war intelligence” about Iraq concerns the incorrect determination that Iraq had significant stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Almost all of the controversy revolves around the failure to find these stockpiles, and the realization that they probably didn’t exists.
But stockpiles of WMDs are irrelevant to the war’s rationale. [...]
John Moore | January 8, 2004
The lack of use of WMD’s by Iraq, and our subsequent inability to find any of the weapons has been used by anti-Bush forces in all sorts of silly ways, with lots of headlines.
More interesting is the question of why Saddam apparently didn’t have WMD’s by the time of the war, and yet caused his [...]
John Moore | December 21, 2003
Omar, at Iraq The Model has an eloquent and fascinating discourse on these subjects. Examples:
we give conspiracy theory-fortified milk to our babies once they pass the age of 6 months.
…calling all of you to support the just struggle between civilization on one side and terrorism and dictatorship on the other.
John Moore | November 23, 2003
Zeyad, blogger of Healing Iraq writes:
I was ashamed and depressed watching those brainwashed and deluded demonstrators in London carrying signs calling for abandoning Iraq and for an end to aggression. While I can understand people who hold peaceful principles against wars in general but nevertheless wish to see Iraq free and prosperous, I fail to [...]
John Moore | November 21, 2003
Rantingprofs asks whether, if the UN was put in charge of Iraq, they should work from Jordan or Cyprus… a nice bit of sarcasm.
John Moore | November 21, 2003
Someone else (Lilek) finally noticed that Salam Pax is an ungrateful wretch. Useful Fools pointed out Salam’s lousy attitude some time ago and found this response from Salam:
John Moore | November 13, 2003
Reuters breathlessly reports:
The U.S. death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War,
This statistic has no meaning. It is an attempt to draw a parallel where one doesn’t exit; to create a link between the terrible and controversial experience of Vietnam and the [...]
John Moore | November 9, 2003
So far, we have been “walking softly” in Iraq, seeking to gain the support of the population. But some areas have proven, not surprisingly, essentially hostile. Thes are in the “Sunni triangle,” populated by many people who have lost their unfair advantages in Iraqi society and want them back. These people have Sunni religious and [...]
John Moore | October 4, 2003
While the Democrats and their tame press scramble frantically to convince the American people that the Iraq war was about an imminent threat (never stated by the Administration) and the the poor, ignorant Democrat congressmen were “mislead” by the administration into voting for the war, information comes out vindicating the war, and also vindicating the [...]