Bookmarking: Rumsfeld WMD speech.
Thanks, Republican Wildcat.
Posted on 06/23/2006 9:22:04 PM PDT by april15Bendovr
Man Says He Has Proof Of Possible WMD's In Iraq
Jack Fink Reporting
(CBS 11 News) DENTON A Denton man says the United States was premature in calling off the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
He was one of a handful of people who helped the U.S. military in its search, and says he's concerned about four sites in Iraq that he knows were not searched.
Dave Gaubatz, who is a retired military counter-terrorism agent, believes biological and chemical weapons could be buried at the four sites in Iraq.
The now chief investigator for the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office disputes the U.S.'s previous findings that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the war.
When the Iraq war began in March, 2003, Gaubatz was one of a half dozen Americans assigned by the Pentagon to look for weapons of mass destruction.
On his website, Gaubatz claims there are four sites in Iraq, that were never inspected, that he believes may have biological and chemical weapons.
"It should have been out three years ago. I've been pushing for three years to get the sites inspected,” Gaubatz said.
At the end of 2004, when President Bush announced the search for weapons of mass destruction was over, Gaubatz said it wasn't over for him.
“I just raised my hand and I said too many people risked their lives to go in at the beginning of the war to identify sites."
Gaubatz claims when he left Iraq in July of 2003, he told his commanders to inspect those four sites in southern Iraq.
“The four I identified were the ones multiple people, Iraqis, told me had fresh chemical and biological weapons,” Gaubatz said.
In February and March, Gaubatz says he met with two republican congressmen, Curt Weldon, of Pennsylvania, and Peter Hoekstra, of Michigan, who put him in touch with intelligence agencies.
On Wednesday and Thursday of last week, Gaubatz says he met with two officers of the CIA, and another two officers of the Defense Intelligence Agency, at the Dallas FBI building. He says he presented his report, and pinpointed the four unsearched locations.
Gaubatz says he will keep his website open until the government searches the sites. While he can't guarantee weapons are at the sites, he says if they are there, he wouldn't want them to end up in the wrong hands.
The Iraqi WMDs That Slipped Through Our Fingers
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21924
The Iraqi WMDs That Slipped Through Our Fingers
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21924
In the same sites this man has reported?
Whoops, forgot to close the tag. If only there was a preview button...
China, France and Russia are all under the table, and they aren't giving us the treatment Bill got from Monica.
bttt
Q Mr. Secretary, there's been a lot made on Capitol Hill about the chemical weapons that were found and may be quite old. But do you have a real concern of these weapons from Saddam's past perhaps having an impact on U.S. troops who are on the ground in Iraq right now?
SEC. RUMSFELD: Certainly. What's been announced is accurate, that there have been hundreds of canisters or weapons of various types found that either currently have sarin in them or had sarin in them. And sarin's dangerous. And it's dangerous to our forces and it's a concern. So, obviously, to the extent we can locate these and destroy them, it's important that we do so. They are dangerous. And anyone, I'm sure, General Casey or anyone else in that country, would be concerned if they got in the wrong hands. They are weapons of mass destruction. They're harmful to human beings. And they have been found. And they had not been reported by Saddam Hussein as he inaccurately alleged that he had reported all of his weapons. And they are still being found and discovered.
Not only possible, but true. Send me $29.95 and I'll mail you a video that chronicles the WMD under Saddam and if you order today you get a free coffee mug.
Ex-Officer Spurned on WMD Claim
http://www.nysun.com/article/27183
Today's NY Sun Iraq-WMD Piece and ISG Inspections
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2006/02/todays_ny_sun_iraqwmd_piece_an.html
Teams are still diffusing mustard rounds from WWI. I think its safe to say that any mustard gas that Saddam stored away would still be potent.
I didn't see anything in there that says the sarin was in binary form. Sure, it's still dangerous to handle, but has any of it been useful since the Iraq/Iran war? Nothing I've read suggests that it was.
What's horrible about his site? Looked fine to me.
He may well be very correct on this one, but in my humble opinion and after readign thousands of pages of Iraq documents, I believe that Iraq WMD or Precursors to make WMD are buried in the Anbar Province in the Western Desert.
WMD Bunkers in Southern Iraq?
http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/DaveGaubatz/DG021206.php
"Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions."
I found this link in trying to possibly give jveritas some "ammo" to debunk the libs using the "The stuff they found is TOO old to be any good" arguement. If THAT "too old" arguement goes "unchalleged" as "truth", IMHO, the libs will try to use it again should our US Armed Forces find a really LARGE quantity.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654560/posts
There might be better and more informative links with a little more digging, I found this fairly quickly.
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