Pentagon Bombshell: U.S. Uncovers WMD Document 'Mother Lode'

Newsmax.com ^ | Wednesday July 16, 2003; 4:41 p.m. EDT

[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.

[billhilly]

Brokow called in to the Imus program this morning and he mentioned this.

[Republican Red]

Can't verify the validity of post and the poster is a newbie but...

From a thread I read on Monday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945443/posts

A close friend of mine has returned from Baghad and reports the presence hundreds of barrels of mustard and other constituents of WMD. He was sent specifically for his expertise in identifying them and flown this weekend for debriefing. Accusations of malfeasance levied against the president will soon become only so much rope...

37 posted on 07/13/2003 5:45 PM EDT by glaux [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

[Right_in_Virginia]

"I am shocked and saddened that the president would withhold this invaluable information from the public for political purposes. Can't you hear little Tommy Boy Dashole now?"

Little Tommy could have used this argument two weeks ago. But, after hammering the President with the "Niger/Yellow Cake" nonsense....the President HAD to wait until he was sure of the facts.

Heaven, I hope this report is true!!!!

[DoughtyOne]

right click, view to see the full sized version

Cool.  Now, if the Dems can just hang in there...  I'm betting six months may be the entire data release, but more than likely it will come out slowly over that six months starting soon.

I can hear it now, "Waaaaaaaaaa, waaaaaaa, waaa, waaaaaaa

Gotta love it!

[freeperfromnj]

"Vice President Cheney telling House GOP leaders: Bush admin getting ready to go on a public relations offensive, attempt to recast debate on Niger, WMDs, including bringing back Mary Matalin for spin control... Developing... "

I just read a breaking story on the Independent outof the UK that Cheney is being pressured to resign. That's the same line Chris Matthews has been echoing since yesterday.

[FairOpinion]

I posted that article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/946839/posts

as we were looking into it, the people who are asking him to resign are some far left ones, associated with leftist websites like Counterpunch and so on. No respectable papers should be paying any attention to them, but even the NY Times had something on it -- check the thread above for more detail.

The liberals are just foaming at the mouth, trying to get Cheney and Bush.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the heads up !

[mrb1960]

all i gotta say is it better be legit....

[freeperfromnj]

They are determined to make this stick. Any word on how Tenet did today?

[MeekOneGOP]

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[Political Junkie Too]

I completely agree. Jim Angle said that this was the most "secretive" Administration ever.

That just means that the Bush administration is not giving the Democrats (and their media) the rope from which to hang them.

It looks like the Democrats are going to have to find the dirt on their own (or make it up).

-PJ

[Ann Archy]

Funny thing happened today....I did not hear ONE sentence that had the words WMD in it!!! I Wonder WHY?? Let's move on to the deficit.

[alnick]

I hardly think that it's possible that seven miles of documents found in Iraq could be forgeries.

[Jorge]

The liberal press will say that these documents were forged just like the uranium documents.

The liberal press couldn't and didn't declare some of the uranium documents were forged until the intelligence experts declared them frauds.

If this new documentation of Saddam's WMD program is as extensive as they predict it will be, and experts conclude it is genuine...simply making baseless claims of fraud will have no credibility.

[Bahbah]

"I just read a breaking story on the Independent outof the UK that Cheney is being pressured to resign."

I don't believe for a minute than anyone in GW's administration is doing such a thing.

[MJY1288]

If Tony Blair drops the bomb on the Democrats tomorrow inj his speech to a joint session of Congress, I can't wait to see the look on the nine clowns faces, then this weekend Dick Cheney will go on all the Sunday shows with his calm serious demeanor and he will put the final nail in the coffin for the un-american RATS

[MJY1288]

LOL, I'm sure the democrats will have a picture of 4 guys unloading boxes and boxes of paper from an OfficeMax truck backing up to the Cheneys office.

[DoughtyOne]

That would be great. I want the 190 plus mouths droping in unison on tape.

[DoughtyOne]

That would be great. I want the 190 plus mouths droping in unison on tape.

[unspun]

Wouldn't necessarily want to play high stakes poker with him, though. ;-`