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The big news is that the U.N. has flunked "the global test." And as big as it is, it's a story that isn't likely to find its way into the newspaper that trumpets "All the news that's fit to print" in the upper left corner of its front page every day. To find that "the global community" is made up of a bunch of crooks, that "the global test" is a racket, and that John Kerry is either utterly naïve or in cahoots with these global con artists is something that's just too unfit to think about, let alone broadcast...

By RICHARD SPERTZEL Mr. Spertzel, head of the biological-weapons section of Unscom from 1994-99, just returned from Iraq, where he has been a member of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG). The Wall Street Journal October 14, 2004; Page A18 After the release of the Iraq Survey Group's Duelfer report, the headlines blazed "No WMD Found." Most stories continued by saying that Iraq did not constitute an imminent threat to the U.S. and thus the U.S. was wrong to eliminate that threat. This reflects the notion that Iraq was only a threat if it had military munitions filled with WMD. The...

Here's what to expect from tonight's "debate" in St. Louis: Candidate Kerry will lean heavily on the first 20% of the so-called Deulfer Report; the part that emphasizes that Saddam had no WMD in the run-up to the Iraqi War. He will continue in the "Bush Lied" vein, and will ignore the really important aspects of the Deulfer Report. That last 80%, or so, is the part that outlines, in stark detail, the fraud of the United Nation's "Oil For Food" program. I know this section of the report will be ignored because none of the Democratic/Kerry enablers in the...

<p>Insurgents in Iraq are seeking chemical arms and expertise left over from the regime of Saddam Hussein for possible use against U.S. and allied troops, an intelligence official in Iraq said yesterday.</p> <p>Charles Deulfer, the head of the CIA weapons inspection team, also said in a television interview that weapons searchers so far have found as many as a dozen chemical-filled bombs.</p>