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The Spectacle Blog
At CFIF, I further outline Colin Powell’s falsehoods and praise a thoughtful approach (and defense of Tea Partiers) by Artur Davis. Davis wasn’t specifically describing Powell, but could have been, when he wrote that “The shortest distance in modern politics is the one between a Republican willing to denounce his party for extremism and the set of a cable or Sunday morning talk show.”
Good stuff.
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atilla| 1.14.13 @ 1:32PM
what is c powells problem? and the left are NOT extreme????
hey c is it colon or colin!!!huh???
Occam's Tool| 1.14.13 @ 1:52PM
It's Colon Bowel, Atilla.
Simon Templar| 1.14.13 @ 2:30PM
He was never a republican or a conservative, he was a military careerist that found opportunity wherever he had to find it and used it to advance himself. He was seen at the last Olympics sitting next to Farrakhan, if that tells you anything.
The question is why are so many conservatives so gullible and fall for such nonsense and deception from the likes of the Chris Christies, the Powell's, and a whole host of phonies.
Mike W| 1.14.13 @ 3:45PM
He is trying to regain credibility after years of lying for Bush. Too bad he didnt resign before the Iraq catastrophe in 2003.
JD| 1.14.13 @ 7:25PM
Name one lie.
CJW| 1.14.13 @ 9:43PM
He lied when he said he was a Republican, and lied when he said he would support someone like McCain then supported Obama.
Occam's Tool| 1.15.13 @ 12:44AM
CJW: I think it's the years of lying for Bush (supposedly), especially about WMDs. Here's a question: Syria's government has scads of chemical weapon WMDs which it is using on rebels. Where did they come from?
CJW| 1.15.13 @ 7:02AM
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Iraq. We gave them enough warnings and time for Saddam to move the weapons.
Vance P. Frickey| 1.15.13 @ 1:11AM
Syria's invested in chemical and nuclear weapons that we know of for YEARS. Most of the syntheses of nerve agents are very straightforward - they're much easier to make than they are to handle safely. At least three of the standard nerve agents were made accidentally by people trying to make pesticides.
The synthesis of sarin (at least) is public knowledge and (while I majored in biochemistry at LSU) I saw it in a book called the Merck Index for sale at our student bookstore.
To answer your question, then: it's just as probable that they made the WMD they allegedly are using on rebels themselves as that they inherited them from Saddam Hussein in advance of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
However, people I've corresponded with online in OUR chemical weapons research sector say that Saddam and Iraq imported precursors for 200 tons of one major nerve agent and only accounted for 2 tons. The Iraqis are also known to have made 9,000 cubic yards of botulinum toxin which remain unaccounted for.
So there's certainly the chance that those agents are sitting somewhere in Syria waiting to be found. And that they were buried somewhere in Iraq - a country as big as California - in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, when overhead satellites were not watching.
Occam's Tool| 1.15.13 @ 1:28PM
Yup. I knew that. Kind of my point. Things got MOVED.
The mistake Bush made was Nation Building. Breaking things in Iraq was fine. We should have broken stuff, checked what we wanted to find, and taken out Iran. All of this could have been done in about 6 months and then we could have left with NO Nation building.