[Lando Lincoln]

Lando

[Lando Lincoln]

I firmly believe that if the "Oil for Food" scandal is investigated to its complete conclusion, it will reveal that the UN weapons inspections were also compromised by payoffs.

Lando

[Lando Lincoln]

I firmly believe that if the "Oil for Food" scandal is investigated to its complete conclusion, it will reveal that the UN weapons inspections were also compromised by payoffs.

Lando

[republicanwizard]

Bump!

[counterpunch]

I, like the majority of Americans have never doubted that Saddam had WMDs, but Bush needs to come out and give an address about just what has been discovered.

I suspect Bush will be doing this shortly before the Democrat Convention.

[1Old Pro]

But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media

What a surprise.

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

[Mr. Mojo]

But this stunning news has received little attention from the major media

Imagine that?

[ex-Texan]

Great News !

[Eagle Eye]

Nearly a year ago someone I knew in the ISG said that there were smoking guns.

There's a whole lot more going on than any of us know. And that may not be a bad thing.

[Iron Matron]

We need to look in the places we have not looked yet:

Iraqis oh-so-holy mosques. What better palce to hide WMD?

[Allan]

ping

[ride the whirlwind]

Bump for later reading - looks fascinating.

[petercooper]

We did not have to prove Saddam had WMD. He had to prove he didn't.

[Quilla]

Excellent summary, thanks for posting this informative recap. Last week, Timmerman exposed the duplicity of Chiraq and de Villipen when voicing their support for the war in Iraq and then suddenly withdrawing it. (I'm still boycotting all things French.) Now, I'll just sit here and hold my breath until the lamestream covers this.

[MizSterious]

Much of this is not news to many of us who have gathered up the snippets of these stories where we could find them. Nevertheless, it leaves me wondering: why the heck isn't the Bush admin out there making this point? Timmerman lays it all out neatly; they could use his outline.

[new cruelty]

Bump to read later

[Peach]

Bump for a fascinating read.

Sending this to some liberals who don't want to let the facts get in the way of their opinions.

[rwfromkansas]

Wasn't there supposed to be some explosive revelation at a hearing on the oil for food program? I haven't heard anything.

As for the article, yes, Iraq had remnants of WMD programs. Yes, Iraq had many many violations of UN resolutions.

But, the lede of the story makes it sound like lots of WMD have been found and the press is not reporting it. That is just not true.

Very few actual cases of WMD are reported in this article, such as: "Reference strains" of a wide variety of biological-weapons agents were found beneath the sink in the home of a prominent Iraqi BW scientist."

BIG WHOOP! So they had something with which they could restart their program with. It doesn't prove they had produced WMD's and had them right before or during our invasion.

Furthermore, this article has a lot of "may" and "might" speculations about what things were used for. Yes, they probably were used for weapons, but may or might is not the same as WE CAN PROVE THEY WERE.

I firmly believe Iraq did have them, that our intelligence was correct.

But, I sure as heck won't allow someone to sex up our findings beyond what they are.

They do not support the conclusion that Iraq had WMD's at the time of our arrival and it is A LIE to say otherwise.

That is our finding....at least as of yet. This probably will change as time goes on once we found out where the weapons are hidden.

[snooker]

Curious that the map in the article shows Falluja isn't it? You got to wonder why the fighting, might be the reason.

[rudypoot]

"It seems Iraqi soldiers were obsessed with keeping ammo dumps insect-free..."

"Danish forces found 120-millimeter mortar shells filled with a mysterious liquid that initially tested positive for blister agents. But subsequent tests by the United States disputed that finding. "If it wasn't a chemical agent, what was it?" Hanson asks. "More pesticides? Dish-washing detergent?"

It's obvious to me that the Iraqi military was very neat and clean. Not only did they want themselves flea-free, but the wanted to kill only clean enemies. What's the point of doing something if you don't look great doing it, right?