Considering that Iraq had been smuggling thousands of barrels a month of oil into Syria for the past decade, and continued to do so up until the war began, I would imagine that it would have been quite easy to smuggle the weapons out.
The Bush administration never commented on this as they wanted to limit the scop of the war to Iraq, however many many Israeli intelligence officers have said as much.
If you consider the administrations actions towards Syria since "the conclusion of hostilities", one can deduce pretty quickly that the Syrians were holding out on something important.
In the last two weeks prior to the invasion, Saddam invited inspectors back in to Iraq. Why wait until and invasion is imminent unless you were still busy covering up the crime. Both Syria and Saddam were Bathist regimes, there was an alliance between the two predicated on Iraq's need for hard cash, which only Syria could provide vis a vis oil smuggling.
1. He hid weapons abroud during time of war before. 2. Syria and Iraq were political (bathist) allies.
3. The smuggling infrastructure was well established. 4. Syria has WMD ambitions. 5. After years of steadfast refusal, Saddam suddenly has a change of heart on inspections.
Ok, its not hard evidence, but it is a pretty strong case and a logical move on his part.
Actually there was a pretty clear understanding before the war even began that many of the weapons had been smuggled into Syria. This wouldnt be the first time that Saddam "hid" his weapons in another country. He did the same thing with his airforce in Gulf 1. Except he made the idiotic choice of sending the plans to Iran. They still have them I think.
Last I checked we supplied weapons to the Taliban (for free) during the 80's because they were fighting a resistance against the soviet union. Large markets, cheap labour and raw materials have often been pursued through such means by the U.S. in the past, but last I checked Afghanistan had none of that to.
We certainly rue the decision to support the Taliban today, but at the time it was a smart way to sap the strength or our mortal enemy.
I bought a laptop from dell with a 1 year warranty. 1 Year and two weeks later the motherboard was dead. $700 to replace their proprietary mb, so I said screw it.
A couple of weeks later Im dealing with dell over some support issues for my company. The lady refuses to email me an invoice that I needed. I get terse, eventually she backs down. Thing is, the PDF file she sends is named:
"invoice4mrahole.pdf"
When I saw that, I just smiled. Two weeks later after having a discussion with a VP of customer support, she was fired and Dell decided to "exchange" my old broken laptop for a brand new top of the line model.
Yeah they are Jerks, but man to they cave fast when you get dirt on them.
I disagree. An executive has the same sort of moral responsibility to his sharehoulders as does a court appointed lawyer. They both are required to do their best for the interests of their client within a pre-defined set of rules. A lawyer can break those rules no more easily then an executive. Its just for some reason the presumption that executives break those rules more often and easily is common.
Maybe we hold the lawyer in higher esteem because in the end preserving the right to a strong defense for everyone is in the best inerest of the community while doing whatever it takes to turn a profit is not.
No, and by that I mean zero, laptops need a DVD-R. Almost no laptops need any 3D accelerator.
Why has no one marked this as a troll? No one needs a DVD-R in a laptop? Some of us actually do video editing, and need to do it at multiple locations and then need to distribute works in progress. Im supposed to carry a full blown desktop and monitor around?
IMHO, current battery tech is finally getting good. On power conservative settings, I can get close to NINE HOURS (9!!!) on a single charge. If I want to play HALO, I can play it for 2 hours before needing to plug in. That aint bad.
I mean what the hell are they thinking. Sell your services, drive your services with pretty hadware NOT the other way around. Its this kind of thinking that has kept their market share and profit margins so low for so long.
Cheap hardware, brings the customers in, services/software keep them paying (ala video game consoles and Microsoft).
Their ass backwards thinking makes Apple products an attractive unafforadble gem. SELL!
f*ck you, and f*ck jesus. Seriously. Im not tryin to troll here, I would just appreciate it if you would pull your head out of your ass and realize that there is no basis for your faith whatsoever.
Sure, faith doesnt need a basis, thats why its faith. Ok, good.
SO DONT FUCKING DEFEND THE EXISTANCE OF GOD BASED ON THE BIBLE! I mean really.
"We can all worship as we choose without being disrespectful to one another's beliefs."
Yeah well your 'worship' is an afront to reality's logic. You have the right to believe whatever you like, but no one gave you the right to respect.
This is only half true. One of the reasons why the military cant/wont use the most current cpus/dsps/architectures is because they deman a far higher level of quality and survivability out of the equipment. Sure a g5 or p4 will beat the pants off of a pentium 2/pentium/486, but imagine just how reliable and small and perfectly contstructed a 486 built today will be. It wont fail, it wont have heat problems, it can be trusted.
Mission critical takes on whole new meaning in the army.
There costs must be extraordinarily high, and are probably rising, who knows what their revenue actually is or whether it is keeping pace with costs?
Also, keep in mind who they are competing against, MSFT and yahoo. Sooner or later those two will be able to squeeze out Google by virtue of more $. An IPO level that playingfield. Also, the auction may or may not generate a higher stock price, but Google is assured a more moeny from the IPO either way, as the direct auction cuts out the Investment Banker fees. Its a smart business move, dont be such a troll
I could see IBM or Motorola or HP or Fujitsu as strong candidates to take over sun. Besides Sun's large bank account, they dont really have much going for them in the long run. Unless they use that money to come up with some awesome marketable product, they are done. But they have so many patents and such a large install base I just cant see them closeing shop entirely, someone is gonna pick them up. The question is who and when.
Photoshop - The only relavant and fair app they bothered to test, and the G5 is noticablly faster than any of the Athlon 64 systems, beaten only by the Opteron.
Uhm, no. The DUAL G5 was 17 percent faster then a SINGLE FX-51. A single FX-51 however trounced a single G5 by 23 percent.
These god awful impossible to pronounce element names are half the reason I got a c in chem.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh LATIN. ARent we special cause we use a two thousand year old language to name elements (and animals for that name! wtf?) that are ten minutes old.
Theres a reason Latin isnt spoken any longer (barring the church, like you really want to use the church to defend scientific naming conventions. Go ahead, I double dare you!)
Why is it that technical fields are intimidating to women? There is no biological reason for them to be inherently adverse to such work. So the root of the problem must be social.
The same argument "women dont want to enter the field" was used for most fields that were predominatly men, until that is women no longer felt there was a social barrier.
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WMA is about choice.
As long as you dont choose to play wma file on a Linux or OSX box, you can do whatever you want.
Masters of slime. all of them.
Actually thats exactly how I spent my Christmas morning.
Why take 3 Billion when you get take 1.... BILLION?
Muhahahahahahaha
This story is great. I never thought of that.
Now would the writers just be so kind as to fork over the 100k I need in startup capital.
If you arent hesitant to express any of your ideas amongst your friends, then you are a comformist
The possibility that some people have friends that are capable of tolerating divergent opinions never occured to him.
Gladiator won best picture in 2000. Please, never ever mention the words "art" and the move "Gladiator" in the same sentence again.
I mean come on, thats just two steps short of giving Steven Segal a best actor award.
Considering that Iraq had been smuggling thousands of barrels a month of oil into Syria for the past decade, and continued to do so up until the war began, I would imagine that it would have been quite easy to smuggle the weapons out.
The Bush administration never commented on this as they wanted to limit the scop of the war to Iraq, however many many Israeli intelligence officers have said as much.
If you consider the administrations actions towards Syria since "the conclusion of hostilities", one can deduce pretty quickly that the Syrians were holding out on something important.
In the last two weeks prior to the invasion, Saddam invited inspectors back in to Iraq. Why wait until and invasion is imminent unless you were still busy covering up the crime. Both Syria and Saddam were Bathist regimes, there was an alliance between the two predicated on Iraq's need for hard cash, which only Syria could provide vis a vis oil smuggling.
1. He hid weapons abroud during time of war before.
2. Syria and Iraq were political (bathist) allies.
3. The smuggling infrastructure was well established.
4. Syria has WMD ambitions.
5. After years of steadfast refusal, Saddam suddenly has a change of heart on inspections.
Ok, its not hard evidence, but it is a pretty strong case and a logical move on his part.
I did say that it was an idiotic choice. Iran never gave the planes back. I realize its a bit late for this, but here is a link as a quick reference.
Actually there was a pretty clear understanding before the war even began that many of the weapons had been smuggled into Syria. This wouldnt be the first time that Saddam "hid" his weapons in another country. He did the same thing with his airforce in Gulf 1. Except he made the idiotic choice of sending the plans to Iran. They still have them I think.
Last I checked we supplied weapons to the Taliban (for free) during the 80's because they were fighting a resistance against the soviet union. Large markets, cheap labour and raw materials have often been pursued through such means by the U.S. in the past, but last I checked Afghanistan had none of that to.
We certainly rue the decision to support the Taliban today, but at the time it was a smart way to sap the strength or our mortal enemy.
Is it m or does SCO's website "suffer" a dos attack everytime they get negative publicity in the mainstream press?
How convenient.
What you should have done is say, "Sure, I can try. But there is a good chance I will fry your chip and void the warranty".
If she says yes, just keep bumping the FSB up until you smell something burning.
I promise she will never ask you for tech support again.
I bought a laptop from dell with a 1 year warranty. 1 Year and two weeks later the motherboard was dead. $700 to replace their proprietary mb, so I said screw it.
A couple of weeks later Im dealing with dell over some support issues for my company. The lady refuses to email me an invoice that I needed. I get terse, eventually she backs down. Thing is, the PDF file she sends is named:
"invoice4mrahole.pdf"
When I saw that, I just smiled. Two weeks later after having a discussion with a VP of customer support, she was fired and Dell decided to "exchange" my old broken laptop for a brand new top of the line model.
Yeah they are Jerks, but man to they cave fast when you get dirt on them.
SCO going after BSD
Anybody else here think that Apple might find this to be an interesting "thought".
Its really amazing. Before this is done every technology company in the world will be drawn into this.
This war will make corpses of us all
I disagree. An executive has the same sort of moral responsibility to his sharehoulders as does a court appointed lawyer. They both are required to do their best for the interests of their client within a pre-defined set of rules. A lawyer can break those rules no more easily then an executive. Its just for some reason the presumption that executives break those rules more often and easily is common.
Maybe we hold the lawyer in higher esteem because in the end preserving the right to a strong defense for everyone is in the best inerest of the community while doing whatever it takes to turn a profit is not.
No, and by that I mean zero, laptops need a DVD-R. Almost no laptops need any 3D accelerator.
Why has no one marked this as a troll? No one needs a DVD-R in a laptop? Some of us actually do video editing, and need to do it at multiple locations and then need to distribute works in progress. Im supposed to carry a full blown desktop and monitor around?
IMHO, current battery tech is finally getting good. On power conservative settings, I can get close to NINE HOURS (9!!!) on a single charge. If I want to play HALO, I can play it for 2 hours before needing to plug in. That aint bad.
And im sure it will be just as successfull.
I mean what the hell are they thinking. Sell your services, drive your services with pretty hadware NOT the other way around. Its this kind of thinking that has kept their market share and profit margins so low for so long.
Cheap hardware, brings the customers in, services/software keep them paying (ala video game consoles and Microsoft).
Their ass backwards thinking makes Apple products an attractive unafforadble gem. SELL!
This will the perfect match for my home made nuclear warhead.
f*ck you, and f*ck jesus. Seriously. Im not tryin to troll here, I would just appreciate it if you would pull your head out of your ass and realize that there is no basis for your faith whatsoever.
Sure, faith doesnt need a basis, thats why its faith. Ok, good.
SO DONT FUCKING DEFEND THE EXISTANCE OF GOD BASED ON THE BIBLE!
I mean really.
"We can all worship as we choose without being disrespectful to one another's beliefs."
Yeah well your 'worship' is an afront to reality's logic. You have the right to believe whatever you like, but no one gave you the right to respect.
Faith=no basis.
Bible=a really stupid basis.
You=a really big moron.
We are all meat. Please suck on mine.
This is only half true. One of the reasons why the military cant/wont use the most current cpus/dsps/architectures is because they deman a far higher level of quality and survivability out of the equipment.
Sure a g5 or p4 will beat the pants off of a pentium 2/pentium/486, but imagine just how reliable and small and perfectly contstructed a 486 built today will be. It wont fail, it wont have heat problems, it can be trusted.
Mission critical takes on whole new meaning in the army.
There costs must be extraordinarily high, and are probably rising, who knows what their revenue actually is or whether it is keeping pace with costs?
Also, keep in mind who they are competing against, MSFT and yahoo. Sooner or later those two will be able to squeeze out Google by virtue of more $. An IPO level that playingfield.
Also, the auction may or may not generate a higher stock price, but Google is assured a more moeny from the IPO either way, as the direct auction cuts out the Investment Banker fees. Its a smart business move, dont be such a troll
My only question is who.
I could see IBM or Motorola or HP or Fujitsu as strong candidates to take over sun. Besides Sun's large bank account, they dont really have much going for them in the long run. Unless they use that money to come up with some awesome marketable product, they are done. But they have so many patents and such a large install base I just cant see them closeing shop entirely, someone is gonna pick them up. The question is who and when.
Photoshop - The only relavant and fair app they bothered to test, and the G5 is noticablly faster than any of the Athlon 64 systems, beaten only by the Opteron.
Uhm, no. The DUAL G5 was 17 percent faster then a SINGLE FX-51. A single FX-51 however trounced a single G5 by 23 percent.
These god awful impossible to pronounce element names are half the reason I got a c in chem.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh LATIN. ARent we special cause we use a two thousand year old language to name elements (and animals for that name! wtf?) that are ten minutes old.
Theres a reason Latin isnt spoken any longer (barring the church, like you really want to use the church to defend scientific naming conventions. Go ahead, I double dare you!)
Why is it that technical fields are intimidating to women? There is no biological reason for them to be inherently adverse to such work. So the root of the problem must be social.
The same argument "women dont want to enter the field" was used for most fields that were predominatly men, until that is women no longer felt there was a social barrier.