Posted on 08/09/2003 5:36:27 AM PDT by Palm_OScar
... and don't forget to take out the parrot news channels that just repeat the OldYT fabrication as if it were true. You also need to compensate for the kooks and Dims media echo chamber effect.
It's the administrations attempt to defuse the story and make it "old news" while GW isn't available to me asked more embarrassing questions.
Richard W.
Richard W.
That a line of bull is printed in "newspapers around the world" is no reason to assign articles with nothing but unnamed sources- or even named sources who haven't been in the biz for years but who have very blatant political connections to say, the Al Gore campaign- more credibility than a lone article from even an unknown journalist, much less an article from a journalist with named and not fictional sources.
Some articles just beg for sarcasm. Earlier reports were unsourced as well, at least every one I've seen. The only exception being the ever-hysterical Blix. One NY Times article even had the audacity to include a quote from a guy who hadn't even seen the trucks.
Speaking of that article, three teams of experts were sent to look at the trailers. Two of those teams were convinced that the vehicles were intended for the purpose of making germ agents. The third team - we are told by unnamed sources- was "sharply divided", but whether this division was two dissenters or more, is not clear. The third team, too, concluded that the labs were for bioweapons, and that only some on the team dissented. That NY Times article grossly exagerated the opinion of a small minority of unnamed and perhaps nonexistant experts on ONE team and attempted to imply that there was a sizable number of such people to anyone just skimming the article.
BTW, we've always had a policy of completing reports before releasing detailed findings. It's SOP for any inspection team, and in any case there hasn't been time enough to go over even a fraction of the documentation, all of which must first be translated.
Richard W.
Read his report. The chemical shell was not destroyed as Iraq claimed, it was intact. We're not sure if Blixie had time to dig further, but there's reason to believe he didn't want to.
Your next response will probably be "ONE SHELL?"
To which I will say, "Why yes, one shell. I suppose you think Iraq only filled ONE shell with chemical weapons in the last decade, and used the remaining chemicals in the barrel, which of course was a one-time salesman's sample and not part of a larger manufacturing run, to kill the infamous corn borers that lurk in the Euphrates."
Of course, even THAT is more plausible than the idea that Iraq destroyed the other shells all by itself, making no effort to have the UN document it so it could get those sanctions lifted, and just "missed one."
Yeah, sure.
And Iraq had intended those modified drones to spray Goldbond powder on sweaty date harvesters.
And Iraq designed those modified warheads Blix mentioned in his report to disperse confetti for Uday's birthday party.
And Dr. Germ the bioweapons scientist really held down a job at Baskin al-Robins all along, which requires all of its ice cream store clerks to have advanced degrees in biochemistry so they can innoculate children using special Belgian chocolate and French vanilla flavoring. She couldn't POSSIBLY have been employed in a field which involves the very weapons she is a specialist in...
Give me a break. Even Blixie AND Iraq admitted to Iraq's having thousands of liters of anthrax, and even Blixie admitted Iraq had not proven even one teaspoon of it was disposed of, nor made an effort to have the UN team come in and destroy it for them. And that doesn't even count anything Iraq was estimated to be capable of producing with what it purchased and didn't claim.
Named sources have said that WMD have been found in Iraq from Kay to the PM of Australia, Blair and Bush. The best the press can do is cite unnamed sources.
We should have resumed fighting Iraq as soon as they violated the cease fire- which occured the moment they refused to turn over prisoners abducted from Kuwait, one of the most basic of the requirements that had to be met. Waiting years and years through violation after violation, finding after finding of WMD that had not been turned over, through every smuggling effort we caught them in, through every terrorist effort they supported, only let people get it into their heads that Iraq really hasn't been asking for it in every way possible all along.
Yeah sure. Blix didn't want to find them. LOL Too funny. You guys will believe anything. Seen Elvis lately?
Richard W.
do you think the majority of expert engineers in the DIA who examined the trailers first hand and came to that conclusion are "dumb" ?
or perhaps you think they have some secret agenda. please enlighten us, oh un-dumb one.
funny, i've never thought of the DIA as particularly leftist.
why are you so nervous about the mere possiblity that the trailers will turn out to be a dead end, like so many other "big finds" at one time reported in the media?
btw, if my question makes you uneasy, feel free to just ask me if i have "no shame nor patriotism." that'll get you through.
hint on why the sources were unnamed:
the information they leaked was classified.
the question a curious person would ask next:
why is this information still classified while the report that reached an opposite conclusion was rushed to the public before the investigation was even complete?
one more question:
where does your implicit, almost child-like trust of our government spring from?
I didn't see the name of a single source of information. Is there something "secret" about saying these things produced "hydrogen" that would make someone reluctant to give names?
Also, don't you find producing hydrogen via bacteria to be a whole lot more trouble than getting hydrogen is anywhere else in the world.
And don't you think admitting that it's a bio lab, but that it's for having bacteria make hydrogen to be a whole lot to ask someone to swallow?
It's pretty obvious that Middle Eastern tyrants have litle respect for human rights. That is as true now as it was in ancient Egypt when all those knowing a secret about a Pharoah's tomb were killed when their task was done.
Those that hid Saddam's weapons are not likely to be alive.
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