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To: ArcLight
Man....not again.

This is starting to be annoying (not that I think we will never find them, but just that they break these stories out before they are validated by tests. The US military is at fault at this as well as the media.)
8 posted on 04/15/2003 3:04:03 PM PDT by yonif
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To: yonif
I think they've likely already found plenty of stuff...No embeds are with the special forces who were taasked with taking them out early, or with the WMD teams.
There's been no comment on some finds, and denials of others.

I expect the plan is to present all the evidence at once rather than let finds dribble out and let people debate about individual issues.

Staregically, I think it makes a lot more sense to be mum, and present a complete document months down the road which details all activities - including places, names, testimony, equipment, and weapons finds. Make a real document like the one Iraq was supposed to submit last year, and then let the UN come in and verify it's destuction.

In addition to a comprehensive report being far more compelling and convincing, I would think that they don't want Iraqi scientists and generals to know what we know when we interrogate them.

So I'd expect that keeping quiet about any WMD finds for the time being is part of Centcom/DOD strategy, and it is why we haven't heard anything except what embeds have picked up from folks in the field.
14 posted on 04/15/2003 3:11:03 PM PDT by Chameleon
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To: yonif
You read my mind as that's what I keep thinking.
20 posted on 04/15/2003 3:14:41 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (Always a FR fan!)
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