second hand but could be hugh.
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BTTT for confirmation
To: epluribus_2
could be hughmaybe even series
3 posted on
05/28/2003 9:04:30 AM PDT by
putupon
(nothing more to read here, move along)
To: epluribus_2
It doesn't take an awful lot to send that crowd into a snot-slinging hissy fit. Me, I'll just wait for the "they planted it" stories to start popping up - that will constitute better confirmation than any CIA report. BTT.
To: epluribus_2
The DUmpster divers watch Fox? Who knew?
To: epluribus_2
Sorry, I was in the shower. Is there and update?
6 posted on
05/28/2003 9:04:53 AM PDT by
Dead Corpse
(For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
To: epluribus_2
What are they saying at DU?
I can't go there it makes my hair fall out.
7 posted on
05/28/2003 9:04:58 AM PDT by
netmilsmom
(God Bless our President, those with him & our troops)
To: epluribus_2
If this is true, most of the left wing media will need to be put on suicide watch and the 9 dwarfs who want to replace Bush might need to go into hiding
8 posted on
05/28/2003 9:05:09 AM PDT by
MJY1288
("4" more in "04")
To: epluribus_2
I always figured that if there were WMD it would be reported right before the meeting with pooty poot and the G8.
pooty gave blair a hard time with the "Where is YOUR WMD?" line.
9 posted on
05/28/2003 9:05:46 AM PDT by
fooman
(Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
To: epluribus_2
I just heard one of the Fox News Babes read at the top of the hour news the mobile labs that were found are indeed WMD. Probably parts of a BIGGER WMD program.
To: epluribus_2
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=3&u=/ap/20030528/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_weapons_hunt By JOHN J. LUMPKIN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Two trucks found in northern Iraq (news - web sites) filled with laboratory equipment are the strongest evidence yet that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had a biological weapons program, the CIA (news - web sites) and Defense Intelligence Agency said in a report Wednesday.
No actual prohibited weapons were found in the trucks, but intelligence officials say the vehicles fit the description of a mobile biological weapons laboratory received from an Iraqi source. That source, a chemical engineer who claims to have managed one of the mobile labs, identified photographs of the captured trailers, the new intelligence report says.
The report comes as U.S. military forces in Iraq search for proof of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs that the Bush administration said was justification for the war that overthrew Saddam's regime last month.
Earlier this month, Pentagon (news - web sites) officials said the discovery of the first trailer seized at a checkpoint near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on April 19 could prove Iraq had active programs to produce weapons of mass destruction.
It and a second lab found in May have already been inspected by U.S. and British technical experts and a group of scientists from coalition countries. Another team of international experts arrived in Iraq Saturday to inspect the evidence and will likely need a few more days, U.S. officials in Iraq said Monday.
While the new report describes the trailers "as the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program," U.S. officials have not reported finding any proof that Iraq had such weapons ready for use.
The report says the first truck was captured by Kurdish allies in late April and turned over to U.S. forces. The second, though already looted, was found by U.S. forces in early May at the al-Kindi Research, Testing, Development and Engineering facility in Mosul.
Both contained equipment, such as fermenters, that could be used to make biological weapons, the report says.
"Examination of the trailers reveals that all of the equipment is permanently installed and interconnected, creating an ingeniously simple, self-contained bioprocessing system," the report says. "The trailers probably are part of a two- or possibly three-trailer unit. Both trailers we have found probably are designed to produce BW agent in unconcentrated liquid slurry."
A third trailer, found in Baghdad, is a mobile toxicology laboratory from the 1980s, the report says. It could have legitimate uses or be part of a weapons program.
The report dismisses alternate explanations for the trailers.
Captured Iraqi scientists have claimed the vehicles were for producing hydrogen for weather balloons that would support conventional artillery. The report acknowledges the trailers could be used to make hydrogen but says it would be inefficient compared to widely available commercial hydrogen generation systems.
"BW (Biological weapon) agent production is the only consistent, logical purpose for these vehicles," the report says.
The reports about the trailers, based largely on the Iraqi engineer's description, were a key component of Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites)'s February 2003 presentation to the United Nations (news - web sites) regarding Iraq's alleged weapons programs.
On the Net:
CIA/DIA report:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/iraqi_mobile_plants/index.html
18 posted on
05/28/2003 9:10:31 AM PDT by
finnman69
(!)
To: epluribus_2
Maybe a on joke on 'DU'?
19 posted on
05/28/2003 9:10:47 AM PDT by
cricket
To: epluribus_2
This is what should be making dumbocrats heads explode. My in-laws, lifelong democrat voters and union members, LOVE George W Bush. They LOVE his tough stance on terrorism and rogue nations. They LOVED (especially my f-i-l who served on an aircraft carrier) the carrier landing. And they LOVE FNC!
Last week they were in town where my m-i-l had hip replacement surgery. The hospital she was in only had one cable news channel, CNN. They couldn't wait to get home and back to FNC.
If these folks can have thier minds changed by a great President, so can many others!
To: epluribus_2
What do they think WMD stands for anyway? You could be overestimating their abilities. W mugs dems? Women Make Donuts?
There's no telling what they think. I've read some of their posts and send them to my sis who teaches abnormal psych.
23 posted on
05/28/2003 9:14:31 AM PDT by
OpusatFR
(Using pretentious arcane words to buttress your argument means you don't have one)
To: epluribus_2
ok; read more; no joke. . .but no doubt will be received by the Libs as 'no real evidence'.
Of course, any sane person knows by now, the Iraquis MO on this; but would be nice to find a few giant loaded missiles buried in the sand somehwere. . .
29 posted on
05/28/2003 9:21:16 AM PDT by
cricket
To: epluribus_2
Man, that Democratic Underground place - it could be fun to troll...
39 posted on
05/28/2003 9:30:26 AM PDT by
IvanT
To: epluribus_2
Like Dennis Miller said: " Anyone who thinks Iraq doesn't have WMD needs to go take a sip out of the Tigris."
40 posted on
05/28/2003 9:31:25 AM PDT by
AdA$tra
(Tagline maintenance in progress......)
To: epluribus_2
Took em long enough to finally plant the stuff, which I support, btw. geez. get it together, spooks.
45 posted on
05/28/2003 9:32:58 AM PDT by
galt-jw
(guess what? you've been had!)
To: epluribus_2
They found a WMD that makes democrat's heads explode? Wow. Are conservative heads untouched? Can we just sort of sprinkle this all over the world???
Sorry if I sound a little excited. I haven't had my coffee yet :).
56 posted on
05/28/2003 9:38:54 AM PDT by
Cachelot
(~ In waters near you ~)
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Their heads are exploding.
91 posted on
05/28/2003 10:29:36 AM PDT by
Liberal Classic
(Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
To: epluribus_2
Oh to be a fly on zee wall when someone tell's Canada's Cretin...
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