[Dog Gone]

While important, it's not a WMD, and not even evidence of a plan to build a WMD. It's a plan to build a missile with an illegal range.

Still, good work.

[OREALLY]

THANKS FOR THE POST. President Bush's enemies will really have to work on this one ! No doubt the liberal media will not give this much attention.

[BagCamAddict]

***David Kay, the former United Nations weapons inspector responsible for dismantling Iraq's nuclear weapons programme in the 1990s, said the British discovery proved that Saddam had no intention of complying with UN requirements. "This is the smoking gun we have been looking for," he said.***

Ok, so the "al-Samoud rocket - which already breached the 93-mile limit imposed by the UN" wasn't a smoking gun, but this one is?? So it's not a matter of whether or not you breach the 93-mile limit, but it's a matter of BY HOW FAR you breach the limit? A 100-mile rocket, which barely breaches the limit is OK, but a 1000-mile rocket, which breaches the limit by ALOT is not OK ?

Sounds like the old speeding-ticket-excuse to me... "But Officer, I wasn't speeding by very much, only 5 mph over the speed limit - it's not like I was going 25 mph over the speed limit!"

And the next thing we will hear are complaints that the US couldn't even find these missile plans, that it took the British to find them...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Interesting ............

[RetiredArmy]

This was just a part of Saddam's lunar program of sending a terrorist into orbit of the moon and landing on Mars. Not a weapon to kill. He was wanting Terroranots!

[JustPiper]

Good find Bump Pokey!

[JustPiper]

"We had finished the research stage and entered the development stage,"

'Entered ' being the key word for the naysayers to minimize the importance of this. 'Manufacture is a whole other game. What was developed? Any materials found besides verbal or even paper?

[ladyinred]

This won't satisfy the left who is using this as a political weapon of mass destruction against the President. They won't care that it was capable of hitting Israel, that is for sure.

I for one, firmly believe Saddam had WMD in Iraq. Where they are now, I don't know, but they existed. He had plenty of time to hide and or dismantle them while we fiddled around with the UN. Perhaps that was the point of the clamor for the UN approval from our dear "friends." Some would want him to have time to get rid of the evidence.

[American in Israel]

The Iraqis say that the missile's main purpose would have been to protect Iraq from attack by neighboring countries.

Long Range missiles are not a defensive weapon and have never been. They are city killers, not tank or troop busters. Short range missiles can be used as artillery against attacking troops, but long range missiles cannot strike a target within 1/4 of their maximum range.

Islamic’s may be stupid enough to believe any lie, and are stupid enough to think that of us.

[b4its2late]

Iraqi officials insist that the missile was intended to carry a conventional warhead, but British weapons experts believe it could easily have been adapted to carry chemical or biological weapons.

Good job posting this. I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that these things already were set to carry chems and bio, but the Iraqis "unadapted" them during the time the French and Germans were throwing up roadblocks in the Useless United Nations Security Council.

[Dutchy]

Bumpy....