The truth is that, contrary to your assertions or even those of the New York Times, France may not actually be in violation of the U.N. Sanctions by doing this as the sanctions, do, in fact, allow Iraq to develop and possess missles that have a fly range of 93 miles or less. Maybe you need to research this before you go pointing fingers and yelling hypocracy and violation of U.N. sanctions!!! Like the U.S. hasn't violated U.N. resolutions or even the Geneva Conventions in very recent times? What does this make us? Technically war criminals if you know anything about international law and post World War II history.
As for the allowable missle distance, this distance was determined to make sure that they couldn't reach Israel or other targets the U.S. deemed important to us. The present discussion over the Al Samoud missles has to do with the fact that the missles that they did end up producing, did, in fact, exceed the allowable fly distance "somewhat." Iraq has now come around and after resisting doing so has now agreed to destroy them. So to recap, Iraq is technically allowed to purchase AND produce these things but they are not allowed to use them to manufacture a missle that exceeds certain tightly specified parameters. These technical parameters go down to the minutia of even how strong a missle engine test stand can be to make sure they can't test anything too powerful. So before you accuse the French or anyone else for hypocracy (and I am not denying that they are hypocrites like everyone else either), maybe you should be looking at the Bush administration straight up, he's as guilty as all of them. Don't forget about all the "manufactured" but latter discredited pieces of "hard evidence" against Iraq that suddenly were proven to be misquotes of what UN inspection reports actually said or were completely manufactured and had no basis in fact like the papers from Niger. So where was the corporate New York Times in investigative reporting there? They simply took the fascist Bush administrations propoganda at face value and printed it and didn't bother even looking up the reports to read for themselves or they would have been the ones to have broken the story. Great investigative reporting on the part of the so-called "mainstream" media!!! That's why I prefer NOT to get my news from the conservative corporate owned media [or should we call it for what it is--propoganda that the reader is stupid enough to actually pay for!!!]. They simply do not give anything close to ALL the facts. It is better to research your news out from a variety of foreign and domestic sources to form a more valid and broader perspective of the BS that is really going on. And yes, that includes reading stuff that you really disagree with too. Sometimes your opponents have valid points and accurate information as well!
But the truth is that Bush and his fascist oil executive cronies/cohorts could give a rat's behind about what you or I think or even what the American public thinks. He is going to do what he is going to do with you or without you on board. The only thing you need to worry about is how much "tighter" because of the war on terror things are going to get on trying to get workout supplements. Afterall, it was HIS father that signed the bill into law criminalizing anything anabolic against the unanimous testimony of the panels consisting of the both DEA AND the FDA who saw no purpose in imposing criminal penalties (like prison) on stuff that people used on themselves at that time.
Now that I had my ten minutes to rant, I am also left wondering how all of this is going to help me get bigger AND leaner as well!!!
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. Like I said previously, I know a lot of my friends on this board never go to the chat board and I wanted them to see this. Don't worry about it though, I am sure the thread will be moved before long.
