AMERICA FINDS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!

Finally America has uncovered the weapons of mass destruction we've all been waiting for...

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Niffty article though, wonder what it means...is our government going to stage another attack..possibly useing bio/chem this time? I pray not.

Still no real proof of WMD in Iraq, and I know why. BECAUSE Saddam has had over TEN count them 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 YEARS since Desert Storm to move them out of country!!! And beleive me if I was Saddam I would have moved them ten yrs ago too! Its all propaganda, ALL of it. Just be glad we recovered the supposed junk before some kid with a metal detector did...that would have been bad. "Hey Billy get your dads cutting torches I found a time capsule, lets see whats inside...Ok Johny."

That's very funny Fantastic Damage but seriously don't you think the 210,000 people reported missing and now considered dead as a result of Saddam Hussein, should have been treated in the same way the matter was treated in Bosnia.

I wonder what went wrong and why all so much effort went into not discussing the matter with the world, even though Amnesty international after the fact is saying "Yeah we knew about it but with Saddam in charge we could do nothing about it".

Duh... they could have reported it???

I see a massive cover up here, which begins which, such entities as the Arab Press and the human rights groups and ends with the President of the UN.

So as far as why the US cannot find WMD as of yet, yes it is important; as important as Al-Quaeda responding to Arab support of American forces in Iraq by engaging in suicide bombing.

FD 2 out of 3 ain't bad and given how large this cover up really is there is no reason not to believe Saddam was able to hide the WMD so well we have not found them yet.

Toltec - Look at the annual reports by human rights watch, amnesty international, I believe you'll find Iraq on most of those lists.

The WMD issue is distinct from human rights abuses. WMD's are a threat to national security, human rights abuses aren't. (That's why the US usually ignores them)

Interesting that live bacteria was found. Several years ago, there was a 60 Minutes(?) segment on the Army's disposal of bacteriological agents. The Army was supposed to use three different procedures to kill the bacteria (chemicals, heat) to insure that no live bacteria would remain. This was to guarantee the safety of the disposed agents.

Iraq may be there but a recent report I read stated they new about the missing but could do nothing about it.

The issue of the missing was never discussed until
now

Perhaps my conclusion that Amnesty Internation is a part of the cover-up was and is incorrect but with that many people dead I feel it should not be discounted.

For the record the us did not ignore the matter as the President stated we were going into Iraq to free the Iraqi people.

[Edited on 29-5-2003 by Toltec]

It's the usual strategy of the Bush administration in this age of soundbites and short memories, to change tack all the time to justify the unjustifiable.

It needs to be perfectly clear to all Americans that there ARE Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, because your govrenment has told you so VEHEMENTLY and REPEATEDLY. This has always been the reason for invading Iraq. You wouldn't trust your government if they insisted on that to this day, and then told you the WMDs don't matter - would you?

Here is what the current US government has said to the world about WMDs in Iraq:

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

Dick Cheney August 26, 2002

Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.

George W. Bush September 12, 2002

If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.

Ari Fleischer December 2, 2002

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

Ari Fleischer January 9, 2003

Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.

George W. Bush January 28, 2003

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

Colin Powell February 5, 2003

We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.

George Bush February 8, 2003

So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

Colin Powell March 8, 2003

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

George Bush March 17, 2003

Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

Ari Fleisher March 21, 2003

There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.

Gen. Tommy Franks March 22, 2003

I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.

Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board , March 23, 2003

One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.

Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark March 22, 2003

We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.

Donald Rumsfeld March 30, 2003

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty.

Neocon scholar Robert Kagan April 9, 2003

I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.

Ari Fleischer April 10, 2003

We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.

George Bush April 24, 2003

There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country. Donald Rumsfeld April 25, 2003

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

George Bush May 3, 2003

I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

Colin Powell May 4, 2003

I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.

Donald Rumsfeld May 4, 2003

I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program.

George W. Bush May 6, 2003

U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons of mass destruction.

Condoleeza Rice May 12, 2003

I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.

Maj. Gen. David Petraeus,
Commander 101st Airborne May 13, 2003

Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found.

Gen. Michael Hagee,
Commandant of the Marine Corps May 21, 2003

Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.

Gen. Richard Myers,
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff May 26, 2003

They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.

Donald Rumsfeld May 27, 2003

For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.

Paul Wolfowitz May 28, 2003

Rumsfeld: "Maryland is now claimed as part of Iraq!"

Bush: "See, I told ya'll we would find them nuyklar bombs. Whoever said we wouldn't is underestimatin'..."

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Given what we know today the issue of WMD is so important perhaps we should erect a statue of some sort to really represent the loss to integrity
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Placing the value of 250,000 known dead above that of anything else is what is interesting. 5 truckloads of illegal weapons could have been hidden anywhere but the known dead that is another story.

In Bosnia the answer was simple why was it not so simple with Iraq???

Originally posted by Toltec
For the record the us did not ignore the matter as the President stated we were going into Iraq to free the Iraqi people.
[Edited on 29-5-2003 by Toltec]

Well... not exactly.

Bush said we were going into Iraq to take out Saddam and his bazillion weapons of mass destruction because Saddam and his bombs were a threat to the world and so forth.

If you'll recall, it wasn't until AFTER they started NOT to find WMD, that Bush began to talk more about human rights.

Originally posted by Thorfinn Skullsplitter
Rumsfeld: "Maryland is now claimed as part of Iraq!"

Bush: "See, I told ya'll we would find them nuyklar bombs. Whoever said we wouldn't is underestimatin'..."

Yer an eeeeeevyl dwarf, Thorfinn. Eeeeevyll, eeeeevylll.

I think his next move is to declare Iraq a county of Texas and start making pipeline connections.

Byrd I was there when George Bush made the speech which was the commencement of the GW2 he said "free the Iraqi people"

Those were the words he used