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Pentagon Bombshell: U.S. Uncovers WMD Document 'Mother Lode'
Newsmax.com ^
| Wednesday July 16, 2003; 4:41 p.m. EDT
Posted on 07/16/2003 2:13:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Pentagon's chief weapons inspector David Kay has uncovered what is being described as a "mother lode" of documents in Iraq detailing Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program.
I've already seen enough to convince me," said Kay, a former U.N. weapons inspector, in an interview aired Tuesday with "NBC Nightly News" anchorman Tom Brokaw.
"We're finding progress reports. [Iraqi scientists] also got financial rewards from Saddam Hussein by breakthroughs, indicating breakthroughs. They actually took--went to Saddam and said 'We have made this progress.'" the top WMD prober explained. "There are records, there are audiotapes of those interviews which give us that."
"According to Kay, the Iraqis seem to keep documents on even the most damning evidence," said Brokaw.
In assessing the scope of Kay's find, the NBC newsman proclaimed, "This is a mother lode, an estimated seven and a half miles of documents, many of them collected by U.S. military from [Iraq's] official buildings, but many others handed over by Iraqi civilians."
Iraq's WMD files are currently undergoing a painstaking analysis, said Brokaw, who explained, "Many of them [are] handwritten, have to be scanned onto a computer in this small, highly secure facility."
Working with Arabic translators, U.S. weapons experts look for certain clues, including personnel records, foreign purchases and lab results.
The Pentagon's chief weapons prober said he didn't want to go public with details of his find until the case is an indisputable lock. "I know if we can't explain the WMD program of Iraq we lose credibility with regard to other states like Iran, Syria and North Korea," he told NBC.
How long will it take before President Bush is able to reveal what could be smoking gun justification of his decision to make war on Iraq?
"I think we will have a substantial body of evidence before six months," Kay told NBC.
Brokaw ended his report on Kay's find with a clip of Tuesday's comment by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; a move the newsman apparently intended as a reminder to Democrats who continue to carp about the lack of WMD evidence, that they're liable to be humiliated when the full story is known.
"It's a disgrace that the case for war seems to have been based on shoddy intelligence, hyped intelligence, and even false intelligence," Kennedy complained.
Meanwhile back in Baghdad, Kay continues to pour over his treasure trove of WMD documents.
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KEYWORDS: bush; bushdoctrineunfold; davidkay; iraq; motherlode; terrorism; warlist; wmd
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To: nickcarraway
No, no this can't be true. What the heck with the Dems have to campaign on? What will the liberal press have to talk about?
The sheer horror of it all! /sarcasm
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:16:16 PM PDT
by
txzman
(Jer 23:29)
To: nickcarraway
I love it when a plan comes together.
Note to ted, don't play poker with a TEXAN.
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:16:27 PM PDT
by
tet68
To: nickcarraway
Yup. This squares with what I've read on the other thread (about the interview, but not the actual Newsmax piece). Still, I hope you're prepared for the hailstorm of comments about Newsmax not being a reliable source...*LOL*
-=I=-
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:16:48 PM PDT
by
=Intervention=
(White devils for Sharpton Central Florida chapter)
To: nickcarraway
Contrast this with the drudge headline. I smell media bias.
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:17:09 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(If they sneak in throw em out on their chin!!)
To: nickcarraway
Well, well, well.
I can hardly wait to see the faces of the Democrats when details of this will get released.
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:18:00 PM PDT
by
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To: txzman
I've said all along that we've found a ton of stuff but that we were cafefully vetting it so charges that we planted it would be pre-empted. Good post.
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:19:12 PM PDT
by
LisaFab
(Free Miguel Estrada!)
To: nickcarraway
Hhmm... I wonder..... Niger, yellow cake, France. smoking gun? Enough this time?
Will this even be reported like it's fact?
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:19:59 PM PDT
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(Once a soldier, always a soldier. They enemies of freedom never rest.)
To: =Intervention=
This was reported elsewhere and Newsmax picked it up. It's actually from MSNBC. Hence the INTERVIEW with brokaw.
To: nickcarraway
I would be very skeptical with the release of this info at this time.
Forgery me once......shame on you
Forgery me twice........shame on me!!
To: nickcarraway
Sounds like a great "October suprise"
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:21:03 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(Kakkate Koi!)
To: nickcarraway
Can the DNC and liberals say ... OOPS ?
Of course they will claim these are forgeries.
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:21:04 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: nickcarraway
W's modus operandi is like the old march song "The yellow bird(dims)with the yellow tail..flew on to my window sill..lured him in with crumbs of bread...then I crushed his fu##### head.
Six months is about right to lure them in before springing the trap.
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:21:04 PM PDT
by
TUX
To: txzman
Is it time to shut the trap on the Rats?
To: tet68
Kinda makes Bush seem a bit ruthless, letting the liberal windbags go on and on and on about WMD...he should really apoligize.
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:21:23 PM PDT
by
des
To: nickcarraway
Brokaw ended his report on Kay's find with a clip of Tuesday's comment by Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; a move the newsman apparently intended as a reminder to Democrats who continue to carp about the lack of WMD evidence, that they're liable to be humiliated when the full story is known. I doubt they'll take the hint
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:21:59 PM PDT
by
Mo1
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To: nickcarraway
I'm sure this'll be front page news in the Wash Post and NY & LA Slimes tomorrow. </ sarcasm>
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:22:39 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: txzman
"I think we will have a substantial body of evidence before six months,"
Hmmmm, what would be better timing to release the facts of the report, six months from now, or ten, maybe eleven months!
It might NULLIFY the entire DNC platform! hehe
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posted on
07/16/2003 2:23:07 PM PDT
by
spoiler2
To: tet68
i'll bet that W sits with the info until the rats blabblabblab then lets them have it
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