Posted on 10/07/2004 5:45:01 AM PDT by foreverfree
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WASHINGTON — Saddam Hussein did not produce or possess any weapons of mass destruction for more than a decade before the U.S.-led invasion last year, according to a comprehensive CIA report released yesterday.
Saddam intended to someday reconstitute his illicit programs and rebuild at least some of his weapons if United Nations sanctions were eased and he had the opportunity, the report concluded. But the Iraqi regime had no formal, written strategy to revive the banned programs after sanctions, and no staff or infrastructure in place to do so, the investigators found.
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"Saddam intended to someday reconstitute his illicit programs and rebuild at least some of his weapons if United Nations sanctions were eased and he had the opportunity, the report concluded. But the Iraqi regime had no formal, written strategy to revive the banned programs after sanctions, and no staff or infrastructure in place to do so, the investigators found."
If you're *rebuilding* -- not building -- how can you NOT have a staff or infrastructure in place? It's like putting B before A.
Nothing since 1991? Well, that's not what the report really says... and I doubt Dueffler forgot about what was found in 1995 after Kamel defected...
One thing we know for sure, he will NEVER AGAIN have WMDs. That's a good thing, right?
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
unanswered questions: what were the Iraqis referring to on the intercept played or alluded to by Powell when one was asked by his commander if he had for sure removed blah blah blah, and why did we find chemical suits and anti-chemical weapon antidotes/syringes at the ready when we invaded? pretty elaborate ruse if that's what it was.......i feel there is still more to this story.
I also clued him in (with articles as back up) to the lifting of sanctions, and Frances promise to Iraq that they would veto any resolution of an Iraqi War. Hopefully he will have all the ammunition he needs to give his classmates the FULL story.
the liberal media is LEAVING OUT all of the condemning facts. however, didn't rumsfeld say yesterday that it was very troubling that this report contradicts the intelligence of other nations, ours, and some of the other key info they used prior to going to war.
This guy is a UN representative as well as an American, right? Says something to me.
This is their October surprise? Hasn't this load been shot already, over and over again? All we have heard from the democrats is there was no WMD, there was no WMD, there was no WMD. Now new testomony comes out that backs them up? So big deal. Like no one has heard it yet. Just another cheap way to get it in the headlines one more time before the election.
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Most ignorant voters already assume that this is a proven fact and so this spin will add nothing much to the mix.
Actually, Democrat propaganda has been reduced to the repetition of key words, which are intended to produce a knee-jerk reaction in the listener. Hitler. Nazi. Racist. Homophobe. Enron. Haliburton. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Watergate. Joe McCarthy. National Guard. And so on. So I suppose this will have some effect, as they chant the mantra once again. But mostly it is preaching to the choir.
I'm not saying Saddam didn't have WMD, but about every army in the world has these things.
The way Saddam avoided and worked around these "weapons inspectors", how did they know for sure? - Foot. When they would come to inspect his palaces for weapons of mass destruction, he would bar them from entry for a few days and then when they were allowed in, the place would be empty.
Again, this is such crap. There was a very interesting 2-hour History Channel special entitled "Saddam's Arsenal" or something like that, which aired about 4 months after we had invaded Iraq. They interviewed the American weapons inspectors who were in Iraq throughout the 1990's until they were tossed out late in the decade. They had video of these people on the job, showing up at places, being made to wait for 4-hours while there was furious activity going on inside, and then finally being allowed in. And at the end of the show, they listed the total amounts of chemical and biological weapons and elements they had discovered and destroyed in the years they were over there, and the totals were staggering. Tens of thousands of barrels of various chemical weapons, nerve gas, anthrax, you name it. Huge amounts. I'm amazed this type of report is allowed to stand out there without an aggressive official rebuttal by the administration.
"I'm amazed this type of report is allowed to stand out there without an aggressive official rebuttal by the administration."
I am not buying any of this report.
AND, even if I did, I suggest that anyone who points a gun at me will be quickly sent to his Maker. Then, when the investigation demonstrates that his gun was not loaded at the time....oh well.
Yup. Someone on the Laura Ingraham show just said that Saddam tried to bluff in a game of Texas Holdem with a Texan! Bush just went all in to call his bluff. Don't bluff a Texan in a game of Texas holdem.
I wonder how many more times this hot story will 'break' between now & the election.
GW apparently doesn't bluff -- in any event, don't call him!
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