[mattdono]

Julian Borger in Washington

Julian Borger? Is this supposed to be unbiased reporting? Wasn't this guy the lead demoCREEP counsel at some point (during one of the investigations)?

[chance33_98]

Maybe you should send the Author this, seems like either we have had knowledge of such weapons for some time or his hero Clinton was a liar as well. And a good search of google.com/unclesam turns up loads of information from various agencies going back years about such weapons.

If Bush had found them the left would have claimed they were planted (and many on Du predicted that would be the case). Damned if we do, damned if we don't :)

Gore repeats that Saddam MUST GO - June 2000
Following Gore's meeting with the Iraqi opposition groups, the two sides released a joint statement reiterating the U.S. commitment to removing Saddam Husseyn from power and arguing that Saddam's removal "is the key to the positive transformation of Iraq's relationship to the international community." ---- "U.S. Vice President Al Gore told Iraqi opposition leaders that Saddam Husseyn "must be removed from power,"

The Democrats' Case Against Saddam Hussein (Dems nailed, yet again)
Senator Kerry: "Mr. President, we have every reason to believe that Saddam Hussein will continue to do everything in his power to further develop weapons of mass destruction and the ability to deliver those weapons, and that he will use those weapons without concern or pangs of conscience if ever and whenever his own calculations persuade him it is in his interests to do so. . . . I have spoken before this chamber on several occasions to state my belief that the United States must take every feasible step to lead the world to remove this unacceptable threat.

Headline Rundown and links on Iraq - Things the democrats have conviently forgot...
SECRETARY ALBRIGHT: However, as you all know from the recent crisis that we had, that we are sensing more and more that Saddam Hussein only wants sanctions lifted and does not want to comply with what is absolutely essential, that is, that he not reacquire or redevelop his ability to have weapons of mass destruction, or threaten his neighbors, or threaten our forces in the region. And therefore, we have added to our policy, and are now at containment plus regime change.

Saddam Abused His Last Chance, Clinton -clear and present danger to safety of people everywhere 1998
Clinton: "Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons," Clinton said. The Iraqi dictator has used these weapons against his neighbors and his own people, he said, and "left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again."

What the democrats want you to forget
Clinton: Clinton detailed Hussein's lies and evasions since the end of the Gulf War. Under the agreement ending the war, Hussein had 15 days to report about his nuclear, chemical and biological arsenal. "Iraq has repeatedly made false declarations about the weapons that it had left in its possession after the Gulf War," Clinton said.
U.N. inspectors have found proof time and again that Iraq lied about its nuclear program, Clinton said. The Iraqis simply amended their declaration to incorporate the discoveries.
"[Iraq] has submitted six different biological warfare declarations, each of which has been rejected by [the U.N. Special Commission]," he said.

Iraq is a Regional Threat, capable of as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent (1999 Clinton report)

• Iraq is capable of assembling its prohibited Al-Hussein long-range missiles with key parts known to have been stripped from destroyed imported SCUDs.
• Iraq has refused to account for precursor chemicals capable of making as much as 200 tons of VX nerve agent. Iraq has the know-how and equipment to weaponize VX, despite its continuing denials.
• Iraq loaded VX, anthrax, botulism toxin, and other chemical and biological agents into Al-Hussein missile warheads and deployed them during the Gulf War.

  Clinton, Gore rally domestic support for strike at Iraq, "unholy axis" (1998 Must read)
  Clinton admitted that the potential military strikes, which have met with widespread international opposition, would not destroy Iraq's capacity to create weapons of mass destruction, they would, "seriously reduce his [Saddam Hussein's] capacity to threaten his neighbors." Clinton said the strikes would leave Saddam Hussein "worse off" than he is now.

  US Vice-President Al Gore said the US is "working around the clock to pursue a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis," but warned "When it comes to protecting our vital national interests, Americans will stand as one."

[Diogenesis]

Dead children, previously playing in Halabja
Victims of Saddams' WMD in March 1988.

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Chemical warhead at an Iraqi air base, marked with a green band,
the symbol for chemical weaponry. Trace amounts of a nerve agent was found
in two spots on the ~meter long warhead. The amounts could be consistent with
leakage from a chemically armed weapon. A 13-foot missile was found next
to it.

[jaz.357]

Plug 'em into google. Watch what pops out!

[Apollo]

captured Iraqi scientists gave the investigation an account of how weapons were destroyed, but those accounts refer back to the period immediately after the 1991 Gulf war.

Didn't UN weapons inspectors find tons of these supposedly destroyed weapons in 1993 or 1994?

[Chi-townChief]

bttt

[gooleyman]

I still say that if they don't find the stockpiles of WMD's like we thought were there, it just shows-to-go-you that there was a mass plot to make Saddam appear more powerful than he was so that Dubya would be afraid to attack him on this large a scale.

Apparently Saddam's calculator didn't do Cowboy math.

I think (hope) that a majority of the people can see through all the anti-war hype and lies that are being thrown around by the Dims and 3rd Partyers.

[Born Conservative]

You forgot something after the title of this posting: BARF ALERT!!!!!

[SpinyNorman]

An intensive six-month search of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction has failed to find a single trace of an illegal arsenal, according to accounts of a report circulated in Washington and London. A draft of the report, compiled by the CIA-led 1,400-strong Iraq Survey Group (ISG), has been sent to the White House, the Pentagon and Downing Street, a US intelligence source said, and will contain no evidence of Iraqi stockpiles of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.

Then where is the evidence that they have been destroyed.

UNSCOM reported significant amounts of WMDs in 1998. No evidence of the WMDs or their destruction have yet been discovered.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.