US rivals turn on each other as weapons search draws a blank

The Observer ^ | 5/11/03 | Paul Harris and Martin Bright

[Hugin]

If sufficient quantities can be uncovered, perhaps it will be enough for a public eager to feel the war was worth it. Finding nothing is unthinkable.

Only to the Hate America Firsters. Polls show the vast majority of Americans say the war was the right thing to do even if WMDs are never uncovered.

[Eala]

Last week the US flew 2,000 more experts into Iraq. The Iraq Survey Team will join 600 experts already there.

Hm. Of course, if Saddam didn't have WsMD as he claimed, why all the stonewalling & diversionary tactics sure to result in (as they did) his being, um, deposed? Or was he just trying to be the political equivalent of a suicide bomber?

(Should've been a barf alert on this?)

[Asclepius]

One CIA official described The Cabal's members as 'crazed', on a 'mission from God'.

An unnamed "official," of course. And "CIA officials" always talk like this, about these things etc.

What a fascinating artifact. Disinformation masquerading as journalism at its most raw, most unsophisticated.

[Nick Danger]

The pressure is building to find Saddam's hidden arsenal and time is running out.

Time is running out? Who says? What, Dr. Germ is going to turn into a pumpkin at midnight? Pure press twaddle, that's what I think.

What really frosts me is that these media liberals think this all about playing 'gotcha.' If this stuff exists, and somebody else finds it before we do, Really Serious Stuff could happen. People could die. But to these jerks, it's all about "gotcha." What scum they are.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Observer is working overtime to say Bush and Blair were wrong!

They were absolutely right!!!!!

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[blam]

If weapons of mass destruction are not found, someone in the intellegence services who mislead this president, will pay the price. Count on it!

[okie01]

"the USA govt lied (oh my goodness "say it ain't so joe") and got caught "

Not so fast. Shimmer dissolve to November, 1998, when the UNSCOM inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq so that Willie Clinton could play his little game of pre-impeachment "wag the dog".

When the inspectors were withdrawn, the had confirmed the existence of "tons of chemical weapons" and "thousands of liters of bioweapons".

Indeed, Blix' charge was not to discover new WMD so much as to find out what happened to those everybody knew Hussein had as recently as November, 1998.

Iraq claimed they had been destroyed -- but were unable to provide any documentation to that effect. Nor would they identify the site of the claimed destruction so that tests to confirm their assertions might be undertaken.

So, what do you think happened to them...???

[MEG33]

Balderdash

[JBBooks]

In my opinion, the issue is not was the war justified or was its outcome positive - it was. The Iraqi people are better of and the military victory was superb.

However, at this time the issue being posed is if there were, in fact, no WMD in Iraq, how could US intelligence have been so wrong?

Why is this so important? Because if our government plans on acting preemptively in the future, they had better do so based upon accurate intelligence information. If they don't, they are acting recklessly. There is no arguing that.

[UnBlinkingEye]

Saddam flouted the very surrender agreement (that cost numerous Merkin lives).

Merkin lives?

The UN sanctions (along with precluding Iraqi possession of WMD's) ALSO included a respect for human rights, a fair and equitable distribution of Iraqi oil wealth, and an end to political hegemony by the Bathists.

There are also questions about our possession of WMD's, our respect for human rights, (particularly since we imprison more people proportionately than any other country) and our political hegemony by the Republicrats.

Regarding:

a fair and equitable distribution of Iraqi oil wealth

Do we in the United States have a fair and equitable distribution of our own oil wealth?

[BOBTHENAILER]

and no one is willing to call the USA on this matter YET but it is coming

OOOOOhhhhhhh. You got me scared of a coming "Regime Change".

[UnBlinkingEye]

The UN sanctions (along with precluding Iraqi possession of WMD's) ALSO included a respect for human rights, a fair and equitable distribution of Iraqi oil wealth, and an end to political hegemony by the Bathists.

walkingman's statement, not mine.

[sinkspur]

There are also questions about our possession of WMD's, our respect for human rights, (particularly since we imprison more people proportionately than any other country) and our political hegemony by the Republicrats

There are questions only from the very ignorant, or leftists.

Do we in the United States have a fair and equitable distribution of our own oil wealth?

A question worthy of Ralph Nader.

What's eating YOU?

[Joe Hadenuf]

People could die. But to these jerks, it's all about "gotcha." What scum they are.

Yeah, they are, but on the other hand, many of the Bush supporters are now saying it wasn't even about WMDs......LOL!

What political horse crap....

[arthurus]

If weapons of mass destruction are not found, someone in the intellegence services who mislead this president, will pay the price. Count on it!

If they are not found it does not mean that they were not there. There is much information from the captured cards and other prisoners that the stuff was all hidden and/or moved to Syria. If so, it will be found, but not so soon,

[arthurus]

However, at this time the issue being posed is if there were, in fact, no WMD in Iraq, how could US intelligence have been so wrong?

I am sure the intel waas accurate at some point before invasion and probably not long before. There are suggestions that it was buried so deep that it could not be retrieved in the time between invasion and Baghdad or between invasion and the point at which the relevant commanders (if still alive) determined that all was lost and split.