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For Diehards, Search for Iraq's W.M.D. Isn't Over
New York Times ^ | 6-22-06 | Scott Shane

Posted on 06/22/2006 7:59:16 PM PDT by ikez78

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1 posted on 06/22/2006 7:59:19 PM PDT by ikez78
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Why should we stop when we're having success?


2 posted on 06/22/2006 8:00:54 PM PDT by Brilliant
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The United States government abandoned the search for unconventional weapons in Iraq long ago.

Knowing full well they're in Syria.

3 posted on 06/22/2006 8:01:06 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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a) the us govt has not abandoned its search for wmd.
b) the slimes doesn't mention that terrorists in iraq are frantically looking for wmd.
4 posted on 06/22/2006 8:03:02 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: ikez78

maybe we should somehow get Gaubutz & jveritas together ?


5 posted on 06/22/2006 8:09:14 PM PDT by stylin19a
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The United States government abandoned the search for unconventional weapons in Iraq long ago.

Translation: The United States government stopped telling the NYSlimes about anything it was doing long ago. Not that the NYSlimes ever listened, anyway, preferring to make stuff up that fit its agenda better.

6 posted on 06/22/2006 8:22:33 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: ikez78

For retards, it never began.


7 posted on 06/22/2006 8:23:26 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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LOL... great one JW.


8 posted on 06/22/2006 8:34:33 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: ikez78
Hmm...From BBC, March 2003
The development of long-range missiles capable of delivering chemical, biological, and even nuclear warheads, was seen as one of Saddam Hussein's central strategic goals. He had already used his existing missile force against Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, with conventional warheads. It was expected that over time, Iraqi scientists would develop increasingly accurate missiles with greater ranges and payloads.

9 posted on 06/22/2006 8:40:22 PM PDT by syriacus (Insurgents love THE MURTHA PLAN: Make US troops hesitate, too long, before defending themselves.)
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"If you allow someone like Saddam Hussein to get nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, chemical weapons, biological weapons, how many people is he going to kill with such weapons?

He's already demonstrated a willingness to use these weapons.

He poison-gassed his own people.

He used poison gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his neighbors.

This man has no compunction about killing lots and lots of people...."


-- Al Gore, Dec. 16, 1998


10 posted on 06/22/2006 8:45:38 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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The times is whacked and putting up a smoke screen on all of this. Weren't these Santorum documents classified and just now being released? Which means these things were found quite some time ago?
11 posted on 06/22/2006 8:52:02 PM PDT by b4its2late (Eye souport publik edekashun two.)
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Scott Shane...now where have i heard that name before...
http://conservativeblogtherapy.blogspot.com/2006/03/ny-times-reporter-scott-shane-takes.html


12 posted on 06/22/2006 9:03:36 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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The Slimes can't stand teh fact that our guys keep finding WMDs, so they try to make it look like it's a futile effort kept alive for political reasons.


13 posted on 06/22/2006 9:05:38 PM PDT by Hillsdale Guy
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To: ikez78; Grampa Dave

1983, when Hussein ordered the use of chemical weapons against Iran.

In August 1988, Hussein launched chemical attacks against defenseless men, women and children in Kurdish villages in northern Iraq. International groups ascertained he used mustard gas and sarin.

During the Persian Gulf War, Hussein threatened to use his chemical arsenal against the coalition arrayed against him. Following the war, U.N. inspectors went into Iraq and found stockpiles of chemical weapons.

2003
Mubarak said point blank to Retired Gen. Tommy Franks, "Saddam has WMD-biologicals."

2004
UN weapons experts have found 20 engines used in Iraq's banned Al Samoud 2 missiles in a Jordanian scrap yard, along with other equipment that could be used to produce weapons of mass destruction UN Inspector disclosed the discovery today in a closed-door briefing to the UN Security Council.

"The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt (search), the chief military spokesman in Iraq, told reporters in Baghdad. "The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a U.S. force convoy."

NewsMax breaking story about WMDs evidence were in IRAQ: Jordan King reporting that the weapons that they tried to use to kill the 80K...one of the terrorists confessed he was trained in Iraq with WMDs.they just had a terrorists confession that the 80K they were planning on killing in Jordan were trained and came from IRAQ

Multiple Middle Eastern leaders, including Jordan's King Abdullah and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mmmhiggins/IRAQWMD.html#TOP


14 posted on 06/22/2006 9:13:29 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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It must be difficult for the NY Times to feel the fabric of its carefully woven propaganda campaign suddenly tear to reveal the truth. It's kind of amusing to hear them characterize the folks who actually did find WMD as "diehards," meaning that to the Times that the lie is in place and that normal people would not question it by now. But lies turn out to be fragile and truth isn't. And that's going to be difficult to explain away.
15 posted on 06/22/2006 9:19:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ikez78

ping


16 posted on 06/22/2006 11:10:55 PM PDT by SR 50 (Larry)
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To: hsalaw

At least the NYT is writing something...


17 posted on 06/22/2006 11:25:25 PM PDT by Prodn2000
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To: george76
According to one of Saddam's own nuke scientists, Iraq had an assembled device of several kilotons capacity by '94 (3 yrs after all such devices were to be verifiably destroyed). All they lacked was its enriched uranium core (which they were feverishly working to acquire). Saddam was not even going to test the device, but planed to drop it unannounced on Israel.

Do any Freepers know what became of this device?
18 posted on 06/23/2006 10:41:41 AM PDT by attiladhun2 (evolution has both deified and degraded humanity)
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Not sure of this device, but Saddam had commercial airplanes striped of their seats...then filled with WMD and flown to Syria.

This was reported by his former spy master who ran the operations.

Second, the Russians complained that their truck convoy fleeing Baghdad full of "stuff" was attacked during the early days of the war. We can just guess, for now, what the Russians were rushing out of Iraq to Syria.
19 posted on 06/23/2006 11:19:23 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: attiladhun2

this link may help or just add more questions

[PDF] COVER NOTE File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
spraying device, are unknown to UNMOVIC. It is known that Iraq had tested ... with a medium nuclear bomb of 20 kilotons”. The letter continued that its ...
www.un.org/depts/unmovic/documents/6mar.pdf -

Page 20 of 175:
UNMOVIC Working document
6 March 2003
CLUSTERS OF UNRESOLVED DISARMAMENT ISSUES


20 posted on 06/23/2006 11:29:52 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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