This is an AP story, Retreat on weapons stance may be a victory

[JasonDeter]

no link, sorry, its in the local paper front page, please explain this story:

Header: Retreat on weapons stance may be a victory
subheader: Finding may help revive peaceful, global strategy to tackling arms proliferation.

by Charles J. Hanley

1st para: Whatever the political backlash in election-year America, the U.S. retreat on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction signals a victory in the larger fight to control the deadliest of weapons. Sanctions and inspections, the United Nations and global teamwork appear to have worked in curbing Iraq's ambitions.

edited to change untided nations to UNITED nations.

[SoCalDem]

1. .."Oops, we lied..AGAIN, but you still love us, right?..right??"...

Boy I sure people start to see through this crap :(

[JasonDeter]

9. Around here, don't count on it.

50 percent of the voting public has their head so far up their asses they can't think anymore. Do you remember when rush limbaugh used to accuse the Democrats of not being able to think for themselves and need the Democratic leadership to think for them? Well I do and it seems he was really talking about the republican party.

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. Huh?

"1st para: Whatever the political backlash in election-year America, the U.S. retreat on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction signals a victory in the larger fight to control the deadliest of weapons. Sanctions and inspections, the Untied Nations and global teamwork appear to have worked in curbing Iraq's ambitions."


>>If this was the case, why the need for the war?

Is the guy who wrote this a heavy drinker by chance?

[JasonDeter]

6. He won a pultzer a few years back so he's no lightweight

But am I reading this right? Is his head so far up bush*s asscroft he can't think straight anymore?

[JasonDeter]

7. I just don't get the media these days!

This area is very republican and I think the local paper thinks the folk around here are stupid. In fact maybe they are because, right after the war ended and the bush*ies started parading out barrels and calling them 'suspected' wmds the locals said, "WE FOUND WMDS IN IRAQ!!" But this story I find amazing and laughable.

[laruemtt]

3. a victory for whom?

for the UN yes and what they were doing all along. NOT a victory for the US and they'd best not try to paint it that way. one more proof * et al were wrong, wrong, wrong, deadly wrong.

[Fridays Child]

4. We knew this long ago. Why are the media just now acknowledging...

...the truth? How many lives would have been saved had they not gone to their knees for bushista hegemony?

[mike1963]

5. Er, "Untied Nations"??

:eyes:

[JasonDeter]

8. Fixed it for ya. Sorry.

[lovedems]

10. So we had to go to war to figure out that sanctions and inspections

worked, hence the lack of WMD's? Ok then, thousands of innocent civilians died, 500+ american soldiers have died, we destroyed ancient infrastructure, the Iraqi's are suffering big time, the entire country is a clusterfuck, but hey! Inspections and sanctions and the global teamwork we now know really worked!

That is how I read it and that sucks.

[LoneStarLiberal]

11. I Think What Is Being Said...

...is that the weapons inspection regime and the sanctions regime worked. We know they worked because we haven't found squat. Therefore yay UN, booo US.

Least that's what it looks like to me...

[Caution]

12. that's how I read it as well (n/t)

[salinen]

13. If the chimp administration

were to acknowledge any wrongful act, they would then be expected to leave Iraq. No admitted wrong doing will ever cross the pigfuckers lips.

[Philosophy]

14. So will they bomb and invade Alabama next?

To find out if food stamps are really working in the War on Poverty?

[legin]

15. Here is the link

http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=12624&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

[JasonDeter]

17. Thank you.

How did you do that?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. Don't think so.

No one goes anywhere backpeddlingg