Posted on 12/04/2005 5:34:53 PM PST by ncountylee
Contrary to reports by the mainstream media outlets, WMDs have been found in Iraq, so reports New York Times best-selling author Richard Miniter in his new book, Disinformation. This is only a partial list of deadly weapons Miniter reveals.
Consider these shocking facts:
* Found: 1.77 metric tons of enriched uranium * Found: 1,500 gallons of chemical weapons * Found: Roadside bomb loaded with sarin gas * Found: 1,000 radioactive material-- ideal for radioactive dirty bombs * Found: 17 chemical warheads-- some containing cyclosarin, a nerve agent five times more powerful than sarin.
So, for those among us who continue to say that WMD have not been found in Iraq might need to rethink this position.
For those among us who continue to isolate members of the right in DC who have the fingers of justice pointing at them, need to be reminded that Dr, Frist and Rep. Delay have not been found guility, unlike our ex-president Bill Clinton for not telling the truth. No matter how hard some have tried President Bush has not been found to have lied. He is just guilty, as are members of Congress, of relying on poor intelligence from an agency that was a holdover from the previous administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at chattanoogan.com ...
I think this guy nails it a brief letter to the editor.
It was your own damned newspaper that set up the Sec of Defense in order to MAKE news.....If this is so hot, why not get the Chattanooga News Free Press or whatever it is now to print something positive about A the war effort and B the fact that WMDs have been found.
The base in Qatar does, indeed, have a huge warehouse of documents, tapes, etc and dozens of translators and intelligence folks working for the ISG. Even back in 2003 the opinion was that the 'smoking guns' existed.
It's still was a mystery why the administration hasn't played these cards yet. But then, this is big stakes poker and I don't know what all the rules are.
It would absolutely be delicious if the new Iraqi government announced the finds in an international presser about 3 weeks prior to the 2006 midterm elections! Make that one week, so the legacy media hasn't a chance of negating it.
Where in the same boat. As you are well aware, the process is being expedited within a most probably tight framework. It's goal is not neccessarily meant to justifiy this administration's reasons for the war and SASO.
One can only hope CENTCOM/DoD shall plan on releasing stuff down the pike.
I've been inside the warehouse and can attest that the volume of documents is emormous. There was also another warehouse that has who knows what in it but not likely documents. All I know is that I was told not to concern myself with anything to do with that other building.
I sent the following letter to the editor:
George Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction. I quote, “We have known for years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing WMD’s. Iraq’s search for WMD’s has proven impossible to deter and we should assume it will continue as long as Saddam is in power. He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that demanded he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. There is unmistakable evidence Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years. That is why we must be prepared to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein and eliminate Iraq’s WMD’s once and for all.”
The above quotes compile statements respectively by Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, Henry Waxman, Robert Byrd, Jay Rockefeller, and John Edwards. These quotes concerning WMD’s were uncontested points in 2002, which then formed the basis for further discussions. The legend persists instead that these and similar statements were talking points exclusively for George Bush. Contact your newspaper if you are interested in sources. Let us move the debate beyond this mythology.
P.S.
The sources of the quotes are as follows:
Ted Kennedy Sept. 27, 2002; http://kennedy.senate.gov/~kennedy/statements/02/09/2002927718.html
Al Gore Sept. 23, 2002: www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/02/02-09gore-speech.html
Henry Waxman October10, 2002; http://www.house.gov/waxman/news_files/news_statements_res_iraq_10_10_02.htm
Robert Byrd October 3, 2002; http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/archive/2002/byrd100302.htm
Jay Rockefeller October 10, 2002; http://rockefeller.senate.gov/news/2002/flrstmt0102002.html
John Edwards October 10, 2002; http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r107:7:./temp/~r107pqkqkf:e858562:
Other quotes and sources; www.quickrob.com/politics/iraq.quotes.html
Good work!
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