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So the media will hold on to the whole "Bush lied about WMD" thing a while longer.
Old media = slow media.
This was disputed several days ago - tests on the stuff showed no WMD.
"[Iraq weapons inspector David] Kay has also speculated that Saddam may have thought he had WMD because his own generals and scientists lied to him. "The scientists were able to fake programs," the chief inspector says. This is entirely plausible, because aides who didn't tell Saddam what he wanted to hear were often tortured and killed. We know from post-invasion interrogations that Saddam's own generals believed that Iraq had WMD. If they thought so, it's hard to fault the CIA for believing it too."
The confusion is, in itself, significant. If the UN can’t keep track of their own seized materials, how are they going to track materials that someone is trying to hide?
This has been all over the MSM. Hasn’t anyone else seen it?
As always, it was the facilities and programs to produce WMD that were the whole point. Those were found.
Chem and Bio weapons stockpiles would never have been all that large anyway. You don’t need very much of either one on hand even if you’re planning to use them in upcoming combat operations. You don’t *want* very much around. It’s very much a make-and-use on-the-spot sort of thing.
Large stockpiles of such things become a very complex logistics problem. They can leak. Shelf-lives expire, and then you’ve got a big cleanup and disposal problem.
So this vision the media keeps pushing of proposed huge vaults full of thousands of chemical-filled artillery shells is just a fantasy. It would be highly unlikely that there was ever very much on hand at any given moment.
It was the means to produce them and the willingness to use them and sell them to terrorist groups that was the problem. WAS the problem. Now it’s not the problem.
Good.
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I’ve said this from day one. The left accomplished a very important victory from the start - they framed the war as imposing a burden on the US to prove Iraq had WMDs. That was never the case. The burden was on Iraq to prove it didn’t and it failed. Not finding large stockpiles was not a failure, a lie, etc. It was a mystery. Where the hell did it all go? There’s no proof it was every destroyed. To date we have no idea where the WMDs they said they had went. As Hans Blix found, they never accounted for the materials. The left reframed this war and the American public is still buying it.
Apparently not.
Would that affect the rest of the essay?
I was listening to a talk radio show at the time that our troops killed Saddam’s sons and one Middle Eastern guy (pro-American) called in and said, “Thank God, we’ve finally found the WMD — Saddam’s sons. They are responsible for the death of thousands.”
I was listening to a talk radio show at the time that our troops killed Saddam’s sons and one Middle Eastern guy (pro-American) called in and said, “Thank God, we’ve finally found the WMD — Saddam’s sons. They are responsible for the death of thousands.”
Ridiculous article. For Saddam to have WMD means he has nukes or massive stores of nerve gas and biologicals. We didn’t find anything like this, though I don’t rule out them being moved to Syria or buried in Iraq
And the Paulestinians are still denying it, just like their buddies at Code Pink and Moveon.org.
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1) Those reports came out same day as this article. Obviously, for at least a week prior to this article, the best known info. at the time was that it was phosgene. Therefore, the point that the MSN wasn’t reporting that, when everyone did believe it was the fact, still holds.
2) Notice that when the evidence was it was phosgene, MSN did NOT report it. They only started reporting on it, when it was discovered NOT to be phosgene. Then all of a sudden, the fact that it was not chemicals was big news. Interesting, huh? Chemicals... not news. No chemicals...big news.
3) And, there are still experts in the field who believe the WMD were shipped to Syria. Have we forgotten about that? Israeli intell, reports from Iraqi General Sada, and Deputy Undersecretary of Defense. Even CIA David Kay admits big trucks with program parts and not sure what else was shipped there.