Posted on 07/06/2004 12:01:48 PM PDT by ConservativeMajority
From Tuesday's White House press briefing:
Q I wanted to follow up on Helen's question. Charles Duelfer, the head of the Iraqi weapons inspection team, recently reported the discovery of a small quantity of chemical weapons containing mustard gas and sarin. Polish forces also found weapons containing sarin. These are undoubtedly weapons of mass destruction and certainly would be seen as such if they were to be detonated, say, inside the New York subway system. So why isn't the administration saying that WMDs have been found in Iraq?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think those questions may be best directed to the Iraq Survey Group and to Charles Duelfer. He has commented on those. As he pointed out in the interview recently, he said they were continuing to do their work and continuing to pursue other locations where there have been reports of weapons. And they're continuing to look into the question of what happened to the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, because we know that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction because he had used them on his own people, as well as on a neighboring country. And so those are issues that the Iraq Survey Group continues to look at and uncover. They're working to find out the truth and determine what happened to those weapons of mass destruction.
Q What's the magic number for proclaiming that there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
MR. McCLELLAN: Again, I think it's important to let them continue to do their work and continue to find out what the truth is.
Good question...but what up with the Polish discovery? I saw that coalition personnel were saying it had no WMD?
No not the briar patch! Anything but that!
I think the left is in for a rude awakening. ......soon.
there's not a minimum number, but there is a date associated;
"THE PRESENCE OF WMD WILL NOT BE ADMITTED UNTIL AT LEAST THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER."
AP from 7/6/2004:
"Laboratory tests showed the presence in them of cyclosarin, a very toxic gas, five times stronger than sarin and five times more durable," Bieniek told Poland's TVN24 at the force's Camp Babylon headquarters.
October Surprise.............
Jeff: Were these your questions for McC?
The magic number will be reached right before the GOP convention.
It should be noted this question came from TALON NEWS!!
How did you know?
And then only when there is a delightful mushroom cloud appearing on the horizon.
Micheal Moore disease: Brain rot
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
IRAQ ROCKETS FOUND IN LATE JUNE TEST NEGATIVE FOR CHEMICALS
Baghdad, Iraq - On June 16, 2004, an Iraqi civilian led Polish Soldiers to two 122mm rockets he had found in Al Hillah.
The rounds were tested and showed positive for Sarin gas. It has been determined that the rounds were left over from the Iran-Iraq war.
Due to the deteriorated state of the rounds and small quantity of remaining agent, these rounds were determined to have limited to no impact if used by insurgents against Coalition Forces.
The source led Soldiers to 16 more 122mm rockets over a period from June 23 - 26, 2004. Those 16 rounds were all empty and tested negative for any type of chemicals.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE PRESS INFORMATOIN CENTER AT 914-360-5082.
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Chapter One: Escape
frontline interview remarks on sanctions[Saddam's] son Uday received kickbacks from the black market in food and merchandise coming down from Turkey and oil and gas going out -- all of it busting the U.N. embargo... By some accounts, Saddam Hussein arrived in Baghdad at about the same time I did, in 1956. Rudimentally schooled, precociously violent, a product of a notoriously crude Tikriti clan, Saddam quickly plunged inot the street politics roiling the capital, eventually joining up with the Baath Party... their real quarry was the monarchy itself... King Faisal II had nearly been overthrown in World War Two by a cabal of pro-Hitler military officers that included Saddam's uncle... Then, in October 1961... somebody... tried to assassinate Colonel Abdul Karim Qassim, head of the military regime. It was Saddam Hussein.
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by David T. Hardy
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Moore: Americans are 'The Dumbest People on the Planet' Posted by kattracks
Still the fact that:
"The rounds were tested and showed positive for Sarin gas. It has been determined that the rounds were left over from the Iran-Iraq war."
means that the are WMDs in Iraq.
DNA testing on Monica's blue dress told a story of what happened, not when.
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