IRAQ: Was Intelligence on the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction Politicized?

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HUME: So your sense is that the real search is really now getting underway?

GERTZ: Yes. They just dispatched a one-star general who is heading up that team.

But how can this be?!

I've been told numerous times today by several Freepers and columnists that the search was over and there were no WMDs.

You mean they were lying to me?????

"Was Intelligence on the Search for Weapons of Mass Destruction Politicized?" -- article_title

Yes ... glamorized, in fact.

Like you'd know. What about these actual finds?

WARNING: Gathering WMD storm a crock. See what Clinton told nation in 1998...

The Guardian Fully Retracts BOTH Powell/Straw Story AND Wolfowitz "It's All About Oil" Story

CIA convinced truck-trailers held bioweapons labs ^

IRAQ: WMD source 'was senior Iraqi officer'

FAS (Fed Am Scientist) Report: Iraqi Precursor Chemicals Stored Separately for Weapon-side Mixing

THE ROAD ENDS FOR WMD ON WHEELS

Coalition forces enter possible WMD site

Initial tests suggest WMD "cocktail" found in Iraq (**Of special note--post #58, by Archy)

U.S. finds new evidence of Iraqi WMD (NBC training school, antidotes)

Chem-weapons lab believed discovered

BRITS' CHILLING CHEM-NUKE FIND

CAPTURED FOES FOUND WITH CHEM-WAR GEAR

EUPHRATES 'POISONED'

MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River

Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts?

U.S. probing nuclear facility (Al Tuwaitha Follow Up)

Team Inspects suspected plutonium site (update by the journalist who broke original story, NEW info)

Underground Nuclear Facility Found in Iraq

Marines hold Iraqi nuclear site built by French

U.S. Marines Guard Secret Iraqi City with Very Hot Nuclear Radiation Levels

And from Freeper "HatSteel":

Terrorist devices, chemical weapons found in Iraq

Suspicious Iraqi Drums - UPDATE

Suspected bioweapons labs found

Searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Larry Elder

Iraq's Weapons and the Road to War

Iraqi Scientist Links Weapons to 'Dual Use' Facilities, White House Says

IRAQ: U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms

Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert

Herald Sun: Soldiers find Iraqi chemical 'dump'

***Germany's leading role in arming Iraq

*Germany intercepts (30 tonnes) chemicals (may be used to make nerve gas) for N Korea

New DOD team to hunt for intel as well as weapons

***Chemical Weapons Programs

Capture of chemical expert could help U.S. weapons hunt in Iraq (Emad Husayn Abdulla al-Ani)

Belgium Finds Nerve Gas Ingredient in Letters

Banned missile programme found in Iraq

Administration to Announce 'Rollback' Strategy for WMD

Suspicious Iraqi Drums Preliminary Testing Suggests Chemical Agents; More Testing Needed

2 trailers deemed biological arms labs

***Table 2: Characteristics of Chemical Warfare Agents: Commercial Uses of Chemicals or Precursor Chemicals

******CENTAF IRAQ'S CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROGRAM

I don't time to read your links "proving your synthesis" towards some variant claim. Why not state you qualified opinion and if I ask for substantiation about it ... simply offer it?

I feel the folks upon FR have lost their manners.

Heaven forbid you should let the truth get in the way of your bashing. Your post has just shown how interested you are in finding the truth--pretty much near zero.

I see you dug up my old buddy to pounce upon me. Hi Howlin! Remember the Elian controversy?

Best Regards! Buckeroo

"Heaven forbid you [Buckeroo] should let the truth get in the way of your bashing. " -- article

Truth is all I seek. Your substantiation of political articles is not truth; you just pick and choose references to thrust down my throat about some modern day idea about our rights and liberties; something agreed by the Republocrats; something that you trust and loathe any disagreement.

I guess we have speaking to different freepers. A lot of freepers have told me that we have already found "plenty" of WMD e.g. the bio labs, thus everything is right as rain. The pro-war freepers need to get their party line straight.

Saddam is gone. If there are no WMDs I don't want him back. Neither do the families whose bones reside in the mass graves that have been discovered. Neither do his $hitty Arab neighbors. Niether does Europe (though they will miss the money). There are work arounds. The world has changed, Saddam is gone. Hurray!

If it were up to me Castro would be next and then that pin-head in North Korea. I'm still waiting for the call from the Sate Department.

Right!

Are you referring to the report that also said this?

"Although we lack any direct information, Iraq probably possesses CW [chemical weapons] agent in chemical munitions, possibly including artillery rockets, artillery shells, aerial bombs and ballistic missile warheads. Baghdad also probably possesses bulk chemical stockpiles, primarily containing precursors, but that also could consist of some mustard agent or stabilized VX.

"Iraq is assessed to possess biological agent stockpiles that may be weaponized and ready for use. The size of those stockpiles is uncertain and subject to debate. The nature, size and condition of those stockpiles is also unknown.

The report noted "unusual munitions transfer activity in mid-2002," which "suggests that Iraq is distributing CW [chemical weapons] munitions in preparation for an anticipated attack.

"Iraq is steadily establishing a dual-use industrial chemical infrastructure that provides some of the building blocks necessary for production of chemical agents....Baghdad is rebuilding portions of its chemical production infrastructure under the guise of a civilian need for pesticides, chlorine and other legitimate chemical products, giving Iraq the potential for a small 'breakout' production capability."

Truth is all I seek.

And yet, you don't have time to read the links provided by MizSterious. Interesting. Surely someone who is interested in finding the truth wouldn't have a problem with doing a little extra research, wouldn't he/she?