Posted on 11/25/2004 6:11:12 AM PST by jern
No they didn't. Reuters did.
And the originating source, unfortunately, is the Iraqi interim government. NOT CENTCOM. Even Arab governments allied to us have really been prone to exciteable, bogus reports, or stuff that doesn't get translated correctly.
FNC reported that a chemical weapons lab was found that contained bomb making equipment and instructions including instructions in chemical useage and anthrax development.
It was a very short segment but they did say that more was coming to light every day.
ZIP!
Wrong.....we KNOW they have WMDs. Our main hope is that they find them
it only takes one. Plus there were the germ trucks and the mustard gas in the euphrates etc.
Oh, and BTW welcome to FR
Yup your right. No matter what happens it will be Saddam was right and Bush is wrong.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT !!!!!!
(No matter what IT happens to be ;-)
This is very interesting news though.
note: production of anthrax per Reuters
With the UN providing financial support to terrorists and murdering dictators all over the world(along with journalists spending every ounce of energy they have to discredit Bush),it would be nice to find out where Anthrax comes from. Anyone mailed your grandma Anthrax lately?
Has Dan Rather obtained any faxed documents from Kinkos confirming or denying the credibility of this report yet ?
Until I hear from Rather/Kinkos I'm going to remain unconvinced ;-)
Rove is slipping then.
Principled: "It's the fact we found them that is good - and we hope that we find all of them. This is not related to politcs, it's related to survival."
Me:I have to disagree with Principled here. I think TAMU is actually right and the reason is that the Dems really are more dangerous than the terrorists themselves. We can deal with terrorists. Bush is proving that. What we cannot deal with is a bunch of loony left-wing liberals with their heads in the sand letting the terrorists grow in power to the point where they are an unmanageable threat. Clinton started us down that road. Kerry would have picked up where he left off.
Your are right, of course, that these weapons are a threat to our troops. But better that we find out that our intelligence was right, that the Dems were demagoguing the issue and that the American people understand who was right and who was wrong in the last election cycle and who will tell the truth and who will tell any lie to get elected.
I am confident in the ability of the military to deal with WMDs on the battlefield. They have the equipment and training to do so. I am much less confident that the people of New York and Los Angeles will be able to do so.
gulf war syndrome is thought to be due to contact with low levels of WMD...after 8 years of Clinton's VA administration claiming it was all psychological...
and guess who helped fund the US study that proved WMD were involved? Ross Perot...(the Brits found the same thing in a separate study)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4019437.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4008795.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996609
"...Epidemiologist Robert Haley of the University of Texas in Dallas blames the US government’s past denial of a syndrome on a “10-year misadventure”. Expecting many cases of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) the US authorities tested large groups of veterans, using questionnaires designed to screen for PTSD. Some 20% tested positive. Roughly the same percentage were reporting ill health, so the authorities blamed the mysterious illnesses on stress, Haley says.
However, the tests they used were designed to pick out possible cases for psychiatric evaluation, not to give a definitive diagnosis, and normally give a false positive rate around 20%. Follow-up investigations in the US and UK later showed only some 3% really had PTSD, not nearly enough to account for the sick veterans. Yet the conviction that Gulf illness is somehow caused by stress has persisted.
“What we should have done was what we do for every new disease: establish a case definition,” Haley says. This means finding out what unusual symptoms people are reporting, then looking for those symptoms in larger groups to see if they are widespread, associated with particular histories, or if they occur in characteristic clusters.
"With funding from billionaire businessman and one-time independent presidential candidate Ross Perot, Haley did just that. “When we talked to the veterans, certain symptoms really stood out,” he says. He then constructed a questionnaire to find out if two separate groups of veterans had similar symptoms.
"Asking specific questions was crucial. “If you ask people, do you have aches and pains, people will say yes. But if you ask, do you have severe joint pains that keep you awake and last all day and for months, healthy people don’t. Gulf veterans do..."
CNN is reporting it.
I don't need the discovery of WMD to convince me what we are doing over in Iraq was and still is the right thing. I would, however, like an explanation of the WMD issue just to know the truth: be it our own intell screw up (I can live with that) or Saddam still has them hidden/dispersed somewhere (so what's next?).
Downplaying it, of course.
I just can't be..the DemRats said there's no WMDs in Iraq.
IMHO, an article like this tends to lead to a "rush to judgement" The lead in for Dan Rather's Thanksgiving 2004 broadcast will tell us that at FIRST it was thought to be a weapons lab, but upon later review, it was found to be part of an Iraqi catering business.
The so-called "lab" was actually used for measuring ingredients used in making cakes and "punch" for the many Iraqi weddings that the US Military has managed to indescriminately bomb, which has killed so many innocent Iraqi women and children participants, since the US's completely illegal,unprovoked invasion, and occupation in 2003.
(Happy Thankgiving fellow Freepers , and sarcasm off thingee goes in this spot....)
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