Total American dead in the Iraq Illegal Occupation: 2500 2513 2532 2540 2546 2558 2571 2585 2597 2605 2619 2641 2710 2737 2758 2788 2809 2826 2865 2888 2906 2959 3006 3018 3025 3067 3087 3118 3132 3151 3166 3189 3210 3233 3245 3266 3299 3316 3337 3358 3387 3409 3444 3504 3519 3546 3577 3592 3611 3631 3683 3705 3725 3738 3760 3780 3795 3823 3830 3838 3845 3866 3875 3881 3886 3891 3896 3908 3921 3932
Total coalition forces dead: 307
Total Iraqi Dead: 700,000+ [yeah, I'm still keeping that number -- sorry PH]
Number of days since Baby Doc said he'd get Osama Bin Laden "dead or alive": 2326
Number of days since the illegal occupation of Iraq began: 1787
Number of days since "Mission Accomplished": 1729
Number of days between Pearl Harbor and the end of WWII: Only 1347
Number of days that the the Vice President has NOT shot a man in the face: 714
Number of days that the Bush Twins are still not pregnant with baste-'em-or-waste-'em Snowflake babies: 554.
It is still 358 days until the end of the BFEE Maladministration.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Friday by the Numbers
Posted by Farnsworth68 at 11:11 AM
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You forgot one... 10 years ago today, President Clinton made this speech in front of Congress:
Together, we must confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons and the outlaw states, terrorists, and organized criminals seeking to acquire them. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade and much of his nation's wealth not on providing for the Iraqi people but on developing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. The United Nations weapons inspectors have done a truly remarkable job finding and destroying more of Iraq's arsenal than was destroyed during the entire Gulf war. Now Saddam Hussein wants to stop them from completing their mission.
I know I speak for everyone in this chamber, Republicans and Democrats, when I say to Saddam Hussein, "You cannot defy the will of the world," and when I say to him, "You have used weapons of mass destruction before. We are determined to deny you the capacity to use them again."
President Bill Clinton
January 27, 1998
Whoops... didn't mean to be anon...
Your BBF
Hey, PH! I thought I recognized your fine hand in that post. Welcome back. I really have to admire you. You're like a Timex watch -- you take a licking and keep on ticking.
So, here's my usual and customary answer your post: So what?
Did Bill Clinton invade Iraq? Nope. He, unlike your best boy, Der Monkey Fuehrer, relied on the UN and the weapons inspectors, along with enforcing the "no fly zone" and the sanctions (which, BTW, I didn't agree with, since the only ones to suffer under economic sanctions were the Iraqi people).
So, you got any arguments from this century?
Sure, lets see what the FBI agent who spent a lot of time with him said:
(CBS) In fact, Piro says Saddam intended to produce weapons of mass destruction again, some day. "The folks that he needed to reconstitute his program are still there," Piro says.
"And that was his intention?" Pelley asks.
"Yes," Piro says.
"What weapons of mass destruction did he intend to pursue again once he had the opportunity?" Pelley asks.
"He wanted to pursue all of WMD. So he wanted to reconstitute his entire WMD program," says Piro.
"Chemical, biological, even nuclear," Pelley asks.
"Yes," Piro says.
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