UN Confirms: WMDs Smuggled Out of Iraq

The Vanguard ^ | June 18, 2004 | Rod D. Martin

[rushmom]

Bush has the bully pulpit. Why doesn't he get this out?

[pookie18]

Here's one from 2 weeks ago from the same site referencing a Wash. Times piece which probably appeared on FR as well...http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20040816-011235-4438r

[rudypoot]

I've already tried to convince my lib friends that even the UN said there were WMDs in Iraq (going as far as UN sanctions and 14 resolutions)and I get the same canned rebuttal:

"The CIA convinced the UN saddam had weapons. Everybody believed the CIA over their own sources and the CIA was wrong. Therefore the war was wrong."

The logic force-field of liberals is staggering. No matter what proof you lay in front of them, they still believe the US is wrong.

[Cold Heat]

They can't. The MSM has had this story since the spring.

Their boy would not have a leg to stand on and most of the planet would be surprised to read this story, originally posted in June 2004.

[MacDorcha]

http://216.26.163.62/2004/me_iraq_06_11.html

WorldTribune.com

dated June 11th 2004.

[R. Scott]

I am beginning to doubt these reports. If they are true, why hasn’t the Bush Administration announced it? If they have, I missed it.
At least FOX would be covering it.

[Redneck Limey]

There is one other thing I recall from the period around the start of the war....much was being made of three mystery ships that were supposedly loaded with cargo from Iraq (maybe in a Yemeni port, I forget the details) and were sailing arond in circles in the oceans apparently biding their time. Whatever happened to those?

To me that was the perfect method of disposal - if Saddam survives they float the WMD home, if he doesn't they scuttle the ships in some deep and hostile ocean.

[JerseyHighlander]

The tip of this terrorist sword was scarcely deflected on April 26th, when Jordanian intelligence broke up an al Qaeda conspiracy to detonate a large chemical device in the capital city of Amman. Directed by al Qaeda terrorist leader Abu al-Zarqawi -- the same man who personally beheaded American Nicholas Berg in Iraq last month -- the plotters sought to use a massive explosion to spread a ?toxic cloud?, meant to wipe out the U.S. embassy, the Jordanian prime minister's office, the Jordanian intelligence headquarters, and at least 20,000 civilians (by contrast, only 3,000 died on 9/11). Over twenty tons of chemical weapons were seized from the conspirators, who were just days away from carrying out their plot. One wonders where CNN and USA Today think twenty tons of nerve gas and sarin came from: Chemical Weapons-Mart? Yet their coverage, like most major media outlets, mentioned not a word about Saddam's smuggled WMDs, which -- according to liberal dogma -- ?don't exist.?

Using this as proof of "Chemical Weapons", implying that those chemicals were such that it was a "chemical bomb" with some sort of nerve agent, a thoroughly discredited theory, based on the facts distributed by the Jordanian government after seizure and inspection of the chemicals, is a very serious line of BS. TNT is a chemical, Urea is a chemical, everything is a chemical under this definition. That doesn't fly.

This has been repeatedly reported erroneously, and the means don't justify the ends, even if I and most here and elsewhere in Conservative and Republican, and truth seeking communities online and in print, support the ends in question.

[ChadGore]

I'm sure we'll be seeing this story on CNN, NYT, MCNBC, LAT, NBC, CBS, CNBC and all 3 segments of 60 minutes 1 and 2.

[Jim_Curtis]

The rats were buying Saddam time to relocate his WMDs with the "why the rush to war!" stall.

[MacDorcha]

sorry, clicked on myself. to tired to know better. lol

[RS]

Here's a link to a report from around that time -

http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/new/documents/quarterly_reports/s-2004-435.pdf

"In other areas, whole buildings that had previously contained equipment and materials subject to monitoring had been completely dismantled."

[Gucho]

"There is one other thing I recall from the period around the start of the war....much was being made of three mystery ships that were supposedly loaded with cargo from Iraq (maybe in a Yemeni port, I forget the details) and were sailing arond in circles in the oceans apparently biding their time. Whatever happened to those?

To me that was the perfect method of disposal - if Saddam survives they float the WMD home, if he doesn't they scuttle the ships in some deep and hostile ocean."

YOUR RIGHT
http://middleeastinfo.org/article1978.html

[LibWhacker]

There can only be one answer to that question; they're not interested in the truth. They're only interested in destroying this country.

[ridesthemiles]

OOOOh- I feel SOOO vindicated. I have said for months that weapons and chemicals were shipped out- especially to Syria. Bush, Cheney, Rummy and group just keep picking at the scabs and getting more and more information to hang all the culprits with. Holland surprises me a little, unless they bought parts for various kinds of machines and equipment, not knowing the original location of same.

Syria is the real location of the most, IMO. The convoys going 24/7 to Syria weren't trying to just get driving practice.

This is GREAT NEWS.

[jstolzen]

BTTT!

[ridesthemiles]

EXACTLY!!! I want a major announcement the left cannot refute. Badly. Soon.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Why does the media CONSTANTLY cover up information on some of the most important stories out there when it contradicts their worldview?

Most of the media nowadays is incapable of research, so they just repeat what they are told. Democrats don't place any value on the truth and so the media just repeats Democrat lies. The Republicans are willing to let the issue alone for now and when the time is right they will get a different message out. As Iraq settles down and Bush is reelected expect to hear more about this. Bush is not yet ready to take direct action but you know he is monitoring this.

[turbocat]

bttt