MIMIC
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(04-28-03 07:11:08 PM)
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So...where are the WMD?
Something I found very interesting:
quote:
Administration officials strongly deny that they have a
credibility problem. According to White House spokesman Ari
Fleischer, the fact that Hussein may have destroyed some
of his illicit weapons just before the U.S. invasion
actually demonstrates the strength of the administration's
case, not its weakness.
"They couldn't have destroyed
them if they didn't have them," Fleischer said. "And just
because it happened on the eve of the war, that proves what
the president is saying about it in the months leading up to
the war; that the real cause of insecurity and the threat
that Iraq presented was that they had weapons of mass
destruction."
then....
quote:
But [Anthony] Cordesman said that at a minimum the situation
raises questions about both the quality of U.S. intelligence
on Iraqi weapons and the assertions of administration
officials in the runup to the war.
Cirincione paints
a much darker picture. He says the operational problems
associated with destroying or transporting chemical and
biological weapons make it almost impossible that Iraq could
have rid itself of a large illicit arsenal in just days
before the U.S. invasion.
"It tells you how
serious the situation is when U.S. officials are starting to
reach for some pretty far- fetched explanations for their
failure to find the weapons they had identified so
confidently at long distance before the war," Cirincione
said.
quote:
Some of the illicit Iraqi weapons apparently were destroyed
during the 1990s, some just before or during the recent
conflict, and some were moved out of Iraq, the official
said.
What Iraq allegedly possesses, according
to Pres. Bush:
• Up to 25,000 liters of anthrax,
38,000 liters of botulism toxin, 500 tons of sarin, mustard
gas, and VX nerve agent, and upwards of 30,000 munitions
capable of delivering chemical weapons, and tried to buy 500
tons of uranium from Niger (**FORGED
DOCUMENT**)
What we have found of this titanic
cache:
• An astounding nothing.
And
remember, in that 12,000+ page document, Iraq specified the
locations of the destruction of banned weapons. They took the
UN Weapons Inspectors there, and it was verified that weapons
had been destroyed there. (yes, I give the whole story). The
problem was that Iraq didn't have it documented so there were
some holes in the situation.
I'm more pragmatic...there
has been zero evidence to vindicate these claims after 41 days
of coalition forces presence in Iraq, and 20 days of Iraq
being under coalition control.
The Bush Administration
wasn't patient with the UN Weapons Inspectors but they want us
to be patient with THEM....besides, Resolution 1441 requires
the UN Weapons Inspectors to verify the WMD, but we don't want
them in. :confused
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