Straw, Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims

The Guardian (UK Left Wing ) ^ | Saturday May 31, 2003 | Dan Plesch and Richard Norton-Taylor

[Dog Gone]

Who are they trying to convince, Susan Sarandon?

They are not going to convince anyone that we shouldn't have gone into Iraq at this stage.

[Tempest]

I must wonder how real these supposed transcripts are. I just don't buy into the claim yet.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There seems to be a huge campaign going on, particularly in Europe, to Nuke Blair and perhaps Bush over the WMD not being found yet!

Multiple threads are up this afternoon on the topic, so Guess what Russert will be asking his guests on the Sunday talk shows!

[Pubbie]

Weren't these liberals the same people who said "BLIX NEEDS MORE TIME, BE PATIENT, BLIX WILL NEED MONTHS IF NOT YEARS TO FIND THE WEAPONS" and now that we're in Iraq for only a month and a half the Liberals are saying "HURRY UP, SEE THERE WERE NO WEAPONS, IF AMERICA DOESN'T FIND THEM IN THE NEXT 2 MINUTES SADDAM MUST BE REINSTALLED AS RULER OF IRAQ!".

Yes... Veeerrryy consistent. Assholes!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ping!

[Rome2000]

Whats your point?

Saddam sent money to Ritter, western gov't officials and last but not least the families of suicide bombers in Israel.

He may have destroyed all evidence of his NBC weapons programs when given an approximately 8 month advance warning that we were coming.

You CAN'T be sure that he didn't posess and distribute NBC weapons to terrorists but we CAN be sure that he won't do so in the future.

This was the entire point of the war (unless one is a mealy mouthed weakling leftist SOB socialist scumbag hypocrite, who are the only ones I see complaining about the fall of the psychotic Hussein regime).

[mystery-ak]

I watched Powell before the UN...he didn't look/act like he had any doubts.

[FairOpinion]

"State Department weasels trying to undercut Bush and Powell!"
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More proof that Newt is right about the State Dept.

[Jhensy]

For goodness sakes it's the Guardian. Their 'sources' and 'unnamed diplomats' also had us hopelessly bogged down against the Republican Guard.

Desperate Communists flinging whatever will stick.

[FairOpinion]

"Defense Intelligence Gets New Blueprint"

Thanks for posting the link. I missed it and it's a very interesting, I would consider "must read" article.

[FairOpinion]

"Full scale assault underway on the reasons for the Iraq war! "

You are absolutely right. I am coming across article after article accusing the US and UK of having invented the entire notion of Iraq having WMD. At Google News it said "233 related articles".

But they don't seem to want to look back that the entire world was sure in 1998 that Saddam had WMD then and obviously he didn't get rid of them, or he would have let in the inspectors.

[HardStarboard]

This tripe from the Guardian....the same Brit rag that printed the story that the Jessica Lynch rescue was a set-up caper with no heroics performed.

Next time you pass a newsstand with the Guardian displayed, make sure you bury it underneath other papers. They don't deserve a chance to circulate this bilge.

[Howlin]

Full scale assault underway on the reasons for the Iraq war!

A real gusher.

[dixiechick2000]

Yep! It's a "Nuke 'em both and the horses they rode in on" campaign, from all appearances.

It will be interesting to see how President Bush responds, and even more interesting to see the opposition's reaction.

They are misunderestimating his strategery...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He has an answer :

IRAQ: Powell Defends Information He Used to Justify Iraq War

[browardchad]

Vince Cannistraro (an ABCNEWS consultant) and a Reuters article posted on Yahoo -- a dynamic trio. I'm afraid your sources don't have much credibility on FR.

[rintense]

I agree somewhat. Just because they may not have found WMDs at this time, does not mean that US intell was lacking, let alone embellished.