Posted on 08/28/2005 10:28:47 AM PDT by wagglebee
A Gold Star mom who lost her son in Iraq said Sunday that there was enough evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war against Saddam Hussein.
"I have no concern about there being weapons of mass destruction of some regard there, that were going to be used against Americans," Rhonda Winfield told "Fox News Sunday."
Mrs. Winfield was responding to fellow Gold Star mother Barbara Porchia, who insisted during the same segment that there were no WMDs in Iraq.
"I have seen photos of entire fighter jets buried in the sand", Mrs. Winfield countered. "I have seen pictures of entire caches of weapons that just my son's unit would uncover."
Mrs. Winfield, who lost her son, Lance Corporal Jason Redifer, in January 2005, was referring to the July 2003 discovery by U.S. Marines of more than 30 still-functional fighter aircraft buried beneath the sands of Baghdad.
Her comments show that at least some families of troops serving in Iraq do not accept the widespread misconception that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction before the U.S. attacked in March 2003.
Among the WMD evidence discounted by the press [and almost never noted by the Bush administration]:
* 500 tons of yellow cake uranium stored at Saddam's al Tuwaitha nuclear weapons development facility, which was secured by U.S. troops after the invasion.
* 1.8 tons of partially enriched uranium discovered at al Tuwaitha, which was removed by the U.S. Energy Department in June 2004 amidst warnings it could be used to produce a dirty bomb.
* Centrifuge parts and blueprints hidden by one of Saddam's top nuclear scientists, who told U.S. interrogators that he was ordered to keep the bombmaking tools ready to resume production at a moment's notice.
* Satellite photos from 2002 that showed new construction at al Tuwaitha, which had been largely destroyed in U.S. bombing raids during the first Gulf War and Operation Desert Fox.
* The discovery of nearly two dozen artillery shells loaded with Sarin and mustard gas, which was reported in June 2004 by Iraq Survey Group chief Charles Duelfer.
"I know why my son went there," Mrs. Winfield told Fox. "They watched those towers fall and they knew that the liberties that we have were something that they believed were worth fighting for."
My new title for it is "the Traitor Media"
Saddam and Osama are nothing to the DNC in terms of danger to Americans.
Apparently all they care about according to Traitor Media ratings are Natalie, Hurricanes, dumbassed Trials, and the terminal. It is beyond disgusting. But it they weren't allowed to distract with such meaningless stories some would have to talk about the Treason goin' on.
You apparently want me to enhance my communication skills. Would quotation marks around the word "plummeting" have worked better for you?
For the sake of "decorum" I will apologize if my point was not as clear as you would have liked; but try to imagine how little I care.
The Bush admin almost pathologically can't communicate well at all.
.....plus as reported in a WND article an inordinate amount insecticide for a country of Iraq's size, which is a precursor ingredient to nerve agents.
Thanks for the Dick Durbin apology.
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"All the countries of the world should be playing on the same level playing field instead of there being just 1 Superpower (like America) above all the rest"...
...American President BILL CLINTON during his Impeachment Season while traveling abroad.
"There may not even be an America around in 300 years"..
...American President BILL CLINTON
after he left office.
The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
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What always gets lost in the discussion of WMDs is the fact that it's completely irrelevant. Their potential threat may have been responsible for the timing of the attack on Saddam, but that's not necessary as a justification. He'd been perpetually violating the terms of the cease-fire from the previous gulf war, so we were justified in taking him out whenever we felt like it.
Which immediately shoots down any claim of this being an "illegal" war.
The Traitor Party and the Traitor Media are our greatest enemies. With them out of the way we can deal with all the others.
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NEVER FORGET
After the Traitor Media, like Friend of HILLARY's WALTER CRONKITE, fooled us into leaving behind the then Free People of South Vietnam to their fate at the hands of heavily Soviet-backed invading Communist Bullies from the North came:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
NEVER FORGET
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Why bother reading the Duelfer's Report in full? Most MSM just need the first paragraph of the report. It's called speed reading.
MSM got their news from...
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
They only care about political power and seemingly will sell out theirs and the soul of the entire nation to get it. The world is far too dangerous to entrust our government to the democrats.
Hm, that's interesting. This list doesn't mention the seven canisters of Sarin that were found in a briefcase in the trunk of a car in Baghdad.
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