Who is this ElBaradei guy?

[pspr]

Quote from Larson:

WMD was a snow job. You could tell Powell was lying through his teeth when he went before the UN. If Bush had said we are going over to Iraq to protect America's oil interests, it never would have flown, but yet that is exactly why we are there. Looks like it may have been a good decision the way matters are unfolding.

I think they, and every other international intelligence agency, believed there was WMD in Iraq. The only thing that bothers me is that at the UN Powell showed some satellite pics of a containment truck circling a building that could have contained bio-weapons material. After the war started I don't recall ever seeing what was found at that location or why the Iraqis would have wanted U.S. satellites to believe this was a WMD facility.

The only thing I recall hearing is that later it was determined that Iraq wanted Iran to believe they had WMD to keep them from starting another war. Although a large quantity of yellowcake was discovered in Iraq.

 

[jem]

Quote from sameeh55:

Fuck no jem. Though I fear that. The Brotherhood Muslims are well known to prostitute themselves to whoever promots them. Also, the street knows they will sell their people at a whim if the right offer is presented.

The problem is that I am reading that most egyptians live day to day. They do not have big savings.... and they are not working.
so there will be food, fuel and water shortages starting soon.
7 days or so later you would expect the problem to be severe.
The country will be a mess. Like New Orleans after the hurricane.

Show me a world leader who has the cache, the power and the balls to step in, make an interim govt and transition to a democracy.

The only one would have been that person was George Bush - maybe Bill Clinton too. Ironic isn't it.

I really do not know any other leader with the balls to do the right thing.

So out of the chaos will be the army, the muslim brotherhood and the UN bringing in supplies.

If something else happens than the trilateral commission types are stronger than we thought.