[Wasanother]

The MSM is scared now. They are trying to disprove an issue before all the facts come out and may never come out if they can help it.

[Tarpon]

Does saying the Quran was flushed make it so?

[Ben Mugged]

Two government officials, requesting anonymity because of the sensitive subject, say the tapes in no way prove that WMD stockpiles or programs existed at the time of the U.S. invasion or were moved to another country before U.S. troops arrived.

Must be true since they are anomymous.

[Williams]

This article is incredible. It's a rushed into print quick and dirty to tell people to disregard these tapes - Sadaam Hussein's own words. They do nothing to analyze the tapes, and they start off wanting to prosecute whoever released the tapes.

It should send a chill down every American to hear Sadaam Hussein discussing America's vulnerability to a chemical attack.

[jimbo123]

By Michael Isikoff...

[Stultis]

Nice try, PMSNBC. But wouldn't holding your hands over your ears and shouting "LA, LA, LA, LA, LA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU" work better?

[freeperfromnj]

Whether we find the WMD or not, the bottom line is what W always says: He was a "gathering threat" and these tapes prove that.

[The South Texan]

"Two former Intel officials."

Plame and Richard Clark?

[MikeA]

Amazing isn't it? Newsweek rushes to Saddam's defense, but can't in any way bring itself to defend our own nation's Vice President against an ugly media-lead onslaught and feeding frenzy over an event utterly irrelevent to the governance of the nation.

Isn't there just one journalist out there with an ounce of decency who could possibly employ their endless talents of mitigating and justifying anything negative about Saddam to perhaps say "Maybe the Vice President thought it best not to create a media frenzy at the hospital right away and felt it best to give the hospital time to prepare for a media on-rush before revealing the story." Of course that would require the ability to be as fair to the Bush administration as they are to Saddam Hussein.

Once again we say how the left wing in America sees America's adversaries as people worthy of being defended, while America's own leaders are the real fiends in the world.

[OldFriend]

Creative editing on the way.

[Dr Snide]

Biological attack on Washington D.C.? You mean like an Anthrax attack or something? We all know that would never happen.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, brother. "Methinks the lady doth protest too much."

So do we even get to hear the tapes before these guys tell us to dismiss them?

[jveritas]

So it is OK for the liberal media to leak the NSA terrorist surveillance program out and hurt the national security but it is not OK to get out the tapes of Saddam talking abut WMD and the potential of attacking the United States! It is horrifying how despicable and hateful the liberal media is.

[TBP]

Vee know nussing, vee see nussing, vee hear nussing.

[Taliesan]

This article is the reason for the existence of the blogosphere.

[kidd]

...the tapes in no way prove that WMD stockpiles or programs existed at the time of the U.S. invasion ...

The key word here is "stockpiles". WMD have been found. One single IED had an estimated 8 million lethal doses of Sarin. Fortunately, it was not deployed correctly and no one was seriously injured by the Sarin.

But clearly Iraq had the capability to take out a city the size of Washington DC, given the right delivery system.