Government priorities

[My Final Spider]

Rumsfeld on CNN:

"The priority is to get rid of this regime and THEN look for weapons of mass distruction."

Does that seem a little backwards to anybody else? Shouldn't we be looking for these things first so they don't get used?

[no one in particular]

So, we should ask them politely if we may go into their bunkers or their hidden or their mobile facilities to locate these weapons. Do you think they may capitulate to our inspectors? Maybe we should do this for 12 years or so before we change the regime.

Now for a non-sequitur, the destruction of the delivery systems for wmd was supposedly one of the early priorities.

[My Final Spider]

Originally posted by no one in particular
So, we should ask them politely if we may go into their bunkers or their hidden or their mobile facilities to locate these weapons. Do you think they may capitulate to our inspectors? Maybe we should do this for 12 years or so before we change the regime.

Now for a non-sequitur, the destruction of the delivery systems for wmd was supposedly one of the early priorities.

Yes, that was the point of my post: The US army should walk up to the presidental palace, ring the doorbell, and politely ask to get weapons of mass distruction. Obviously. There's certainly no way that what I meant was our priority should be to avoid having any weapons of mass distruction being used on the army as opposed to getting Saddam's ass and then remembering to see if there's any nasty stuff we missed in our drive to take such and such iraqi city.

:rolleyes:

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US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1048389497622)

About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad.

One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trapped explosive went off as he was clearing the sheet metal-lined facility, which resembles the eery images of scientific facilities in World War II concentration camps.

The huge 100-acre complex, which is surrounded by a electrical fence, is perhaps the first illegal chemical plant to be uncovered by US troops in their current mission in Iraq. The surrounding barracks resemble an abandoned slum.

It wasn't immediately clear exactly which chemicals were being produced here, but clearly the Iraqis tried to camouflage the facility so it could not be photographed aerially, by swathing it in sand-cast walls to make it look like the surrounding desert.

[no one in particular]

Originally posted by My Final Spider

...our priority should be to avoid having any weapons of mass distruction being used on the army as opposed to getting Saddam's ass and then remembering to see if there's any nasty stuff we missed in our drive to take such and such iraqi city.


Then surely you have an idea how to go about locating and destroying the weapons that is not already being employed, or are you just criticizing without offering options? Not that you do not have the right to do that. All people do it regularly, it is very easy.

I very much agree with the priority as stated by Rumsfeld. The quickest way to usher mass surrender, and save lives, is to remove the Baath from power, it should not take too much longer, hopefully.