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Morning, all! Thanks for the news, Kat and the thread, nully...and the kind comments, windchime and MM. (^:

I've been doing some WMD research this morn. Haven't you wondered about, say, the disguised Najaf "cement factory" discovered by our troops on March 24? We dropped leaflets on it...the workers ran away, sand covered the factory - making it invisible from the air, the UN didn't know it existed, it covered some 100 acres. We're told it's just a "cement factory", yet a teensy bit of research shows that UN inspectors previously checked other "cement factories" because HMX explosives are used there.

Do a Google search. Nothing to see here? The press doesn't seem interested in this "cement factory" or the missiles tipped w/ rubber hoses and/or reservoirs, or the confessions from Iraqi scientists that duel-use chems were made at different locations to be mixed at the last moment before delivery.

The only logical conclusion, imho, is that OUR press doesn't WANT to find WMDs.

Contrast today's accusers on the left to the treatment these accusers gave Bill Clinton days after Clinton bombed the Sudan aspirin factory (in a strike so secretive two of his own Joint Chiefs weren't told, hit because traces of precursor chems were 'supposedly' discovered in a soil sample) - Aug. '98 - Clinton in Martha's Vineyard doing the Hillary/Cronkite PR campaign - after Monica confessed...to highly sympathetic press. He actually gave a civil rights speech to the waiting cameras - comparing himself to Nelson Mandella. The WP and PBS put out lengthy news stories re. the threat of global terrorism that same day.

Does anyone remember an investigation into the Sudan bombing? The aspirin factory's frozen assets were quietly unfrozen and the matter dropped - with the help of Vernon Jordan's law firm.

Did find a few gems to share this morn. From a real LT (check out his June 4 'Haiku'):

Living With America (FR link)
L.T. SMASH - LIVE FROM THE SANDBOX ^ | 09 June 2003 | L.T. SMASH (aka ? see June 4)

09 June 2003

Living With America

In the wake of America’s stunning military victories in Afghanistan and Iraq, the world is waking up to the realization that the United States of America is now the single most powerful nation on Earth, and is likely to remain so for quite some time. This has caused great discomfort in some quarters, but it need not be so.

Nations of good will have little to fear from the America, and indeed have much to gain from maintaining a mutually beneficial relationship. As this new reality begins to take shape, the United States will begin to hammer out new free trade agreements, treaty negotiations, and security arrangements with unprecedented speed. For astute statesmen and skillful diplomats, opportunities abound.

Therefore, as a service to all the world leaders, non-governmental organizations, dignitaries, lawmakers, and diplomats who will be conducting negotiations with the United States in the years to come, I present this simple three-point guide to “Living With America.” I hope they find the information within to be helpful....

Iraqi Exile: Saddam Seen North of Baghdad

NEW YORK - Saddam Hussein has been seen north of Baghdad and is paying a bounty for every American soldier killed, the leader of an Iraqi exile group said Tuesday.

Saddam has $1.3 billion in cash taken from the Central Bank on March 18, is bent on revenge, and believes he can "sit it out and get the Americans going," said Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress.

But Saddam also bought suicide vests for himself and his secretary on April 1 from the mukhabarat, the Iraqi secret police, he said.

The ousted Iraqi leader has been sighted on several recent occasions moving in an arc from Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, around the Tigris River toward his hometown of Tikrit and into the Dulaimi areas to the west of the Tigris, Chalabi said.

The latest sighting was about two weeks before Chalabi left on his current U.S. trip — and the best sighting was three days old.

"Now, he's put a price on American soldiers. He will pay bounty for every American soldier killed in Iraq (news - web sites) now. This has been spread around in the western part of the country," Chalabi told the Council on Foreign Relations.

He said the casualty rate for American soldiers "is close to one a day, which is not good."

The United States has been putting more troops into areas where the killings are taking place, but Chalabi said soldiers in their armored vehicles "are sitting ducks for terrorists."

The United States instead should move quickly to create an Iraqi security force under U.S. command, he said. This can be done in six weeks with help from community leaders to weed out criminals and members of Saddam's Baath Party and would allow the United States to reduce its force.

"They can actually provide order quickly," he said.

Chalabi, 58, has been mentioned widely as a future Iraqi leader — though he denies any ambitions to lead the country. He also has many critics who are opposed to anyone ruling Iraq after spending so many years abroad and who oppose his business dealings in Jordan.

"The only logical conclusion, imho, is that OUR press doesn't WANT to find WMDs."

Reporting the finding of WMDs would eliminate an issue with which they and the political left bash President Bush. They're using WMDs as a weapon.

I have wondered, too, about the mention of suspicious places by the embedded reporters. I have confidence we'll get to the bottom of it.

The administration may be trying to draw the left into a full-blown/televised congressional investigation so the info on WMDs can be dropped upon them like a bomb. Now, wouldn't that be dramatic right before the '04 election!:)