Posted on 04/19/2007 3:13:26 AM PDT by aculeus
Ok, ok.
My guess the military donesn’t like Bush, but hate more the Dems.
As Fukuyama once stated, it is like an American Civil War way of thinking : the army is a close institution which doesn’t want to be influenced by politics.
My guess also is soldiers and high ranking personal should have been mad about Dems since they began to talk about cut of fundings.
When the stockpiles could not be discovered and displayed, all sorts of explanations were given, none of them compelling: he destroyed his weapons in compliance with the UN demands, or alternatively, his generals lied to him about his weapons program. Neither explanation survives the laugh test. If Saddam voluntarily disarmed he would have been the first dictator in history to have done so. To lie to Saddam was a self-imposed death sentence.
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I was wondering the same thing. If it was before the US forces had control of the areas then there would be nothing to hide. The administration should have come forward and said the we believe the WMD's were moved to Syria before we could get control of them. That puts Syria in the hot seat. And even if happened after US forces had control of the areas in question....the administration should have moved the ball forward....we missed the WMD....they got them into Syria during the confusion in the first days .....lots goes wrong in war.....take the heat and then be resolute in following the trail of the WMD's, that is the thing of importance.
While I believe the WMD's are in Syria, I am not convinced they were moved after US forces got in position in those areas. There is still a lot that does not pass the smell test about Iraq and the WMD they clearly had!
I support GWB and don't trust the Dim's as far as I can puke.....but politics aside I want to know where the WMD's are! If Syria has them then "lets roll!"
Well, being in the military, you can't try to influence politics while in uniform, and we understand the chain of command: the President's at the top of it, and follow his orders.
Thanks for the ping. I was traveling overnight, will catch up here as I can. Looks exceptionally interesting.
> And even if happened after US forces had control of the areas in question....the administration should have moved the ball forward....
If the WMDs were found and this administration did nothing, then I truly fear for this country and the president is not the man he seems to be.
That’s a huge “if” though, troubling as it may be.
This had better not be true.
Chemical warhead found at an Iraqi air base, marked with a green band,
the symbol for chemical weaponry. Trace amounts of a nerve agent were found
at two spots along the ~meter-long warhead. These amounts are consistent with
leakage from the chemically armed weapon. A 13-foot missile was found next to it.
========= Halabja =========
Dead children, previously playing in Halabja
Victims of Saddams' WMD in March 1988.
Also found in Iraq:
* A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service
that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.
* A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials
working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
* Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home,
one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.
* New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF),
and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
* Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in
resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
* A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission
that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.
* Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles,
a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists
have said they were told to conceal from the UN.
* Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km -
well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed
Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.
Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology
related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles,
and other prohibited military equipment.
Still missing based on the UNSCOM report to the UN Security Council in January 1999,
when the UN inspectors left Iraq in 1998, they had been unable to account for:
up to 360 tons of bulk chemical warfare agents, including 1.5 tons of VX nerve agent;
up to 3,000 tons of precursor chemicals, including approximately 300 tons which,
in the Iraqi chemical warfare program, were unique to the production of VX;
growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce
over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admitted to UN inspectors to having manufactured);
over 30,000 special munitions for delivery of chemical and biological agents;
20 al-Hussein missles with a range of 650 km, in violation
of UN Security Council Resolution 687 (Iraq had told UNSCOM that it filled these warheads with anthrax and botulinum);
2,850 tons of mustard gas, 210 tons of tabun, and 795 tons of sarin and cyclosarin;
development of the Al-Samoud short-range missle (which had the capability to fly beyond the 150 km allowed by UN resolutions)
========= Chemicals and Weapons found in Fallujah =============
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