Just a reminder... The last person to remove inspectors from Iraq was

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Bush and not Saddam,

[baldguy]

1. And Bush dropped bombs on them to got them out.

[lonestarnot]

2. Was bushitler trying to light up the sky so he could see where they were?

[xchrom]

3. lol -- he wanted to get the journalists with them.

[liberalnurse]

5. Amy Goodman shares this concern in her book.

If a reporter/journalist was not one of the "embedded reporters" then all were fair game. The independents were targeted. Just look at what happened to the Palestine Hotel in Iraq. I think that was the name of the bombed hotel of independent journalist.

[xchrom]

6. again, it's one of those things we don't have an official

document on -- you just SEE the pattern with your own eyes and know it's true.

that's why this business with al jazeera is so bloody important.

[mike_c]

4. and the one before that was Clinton, not Saddam....

Do I detect a pattern here?

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. That's right. Just yesterday a repuke caller on C-SPAN said

Saddam REFUSED TO LET INSPECTORS IN...and that is one reason we HAD to attack. HUH? They make up shit as they go along. It's really pathetic how ignorant they are.

[BuyingThyme]

8. I recently heard an Al Franken USO bit

where an incarcerated Saddam (played by Al) says he's thinking about "letting the inspectors back in."

Nice work Al! You really are Senate material.