Bobert your post of 28 Jan 09 - 06:40 PM was unnecessary after all I had said earlier- "The answer that Bobert is not going to pay the slightest attention to"

Your post referred to above proves I was correct.


Now Stringsingers post:

Point 1:
"Did they tell us in 1998 when the Iraq of Saddam Hussein was identified by the Security and Intelligence Agencies of the United States of America as posing the greatest threat??"

This is errant propaganda. Security and intelligent agencies knew very little about Iraq at the time and even today they know not much more." - Stringsinger

Well frank maybe your memory or your timeline has just slipped a bit. Now in 1998, and please excuse me and point it out if I have any of this wrong, the United Nations' UNSCOM Teams including Blix & Ritter had been working inside Iraq, albeit getting the run-around by Saddam and the lads for over six years. In 1998 Frank they knew a damn sight more about what was happening inside Iraq than they ever did in 2003, after UNSCOM left Iraq became an intelligence "Black-Hole", which is why all information relating to Iraq's WMD came from the final UNSCOM Reports of January and March 1999.

Point 2:
"" It was the content of that report that itemised in great detail the proscribed WMD programmes and research and development being undertaken inside Iraq."

The report was obviously based on little-known information at the time and if it existed as you say it did, then it has obviously been proven false."

Oh their reports were based on very good information Frank, very detailed information supplied by the Iraqi Government themselves, supplied by the manufacturing facilities within Iraq, supplied by foreign suppliers of equipment and materials. Only problem was Frank that there were discrepencies that the Iraqis could not explain away. Its all there in the UNSCOM Reports if you'd like to read them - or were the likes of Blix and Ritter and the rest of the UN Inspectors lying too??

Point 3:
"Their report detailed the weaponised stocks of Chemical and Biological agents as well as the stockes of precursor chemicals and dual-use items present in Iraq. Their report detailed weapons and delivery systems."

To that, I say, "Yellowcake, anyone?"

Wrong year Frank the supposed attempt to buy Yellow Cake from Niger was after 1998. Incidently Yellow Cake was found in Iraq in 2003, as were chemical munitions, 384 Rocket motors and there was a proscribed missile development programme under way - The latter having been identified by British Intelligence who tipped off UNMOVIC.