Letters to the Editor
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Made in USA?
Might be a good idea to subpoena testimony from Rumsfeld and Papa Bush -- they were most likely the ones who arranged delivery of the stuff to Saddam in the first place, so maybe they could still pinpoint and identify. Wonder if the "Made in USA" labels are still attached?
Reminds me of a couple of lines from the old BBC 'Fawlty Towers' series, where the little brat complained about his breakfast to hotel owner Basil Fawlty (John Cleese): "God are you dumb" and "Those eggs look like YOU laid them." Substitute WMDs for eggs, and there it is, the unfortunate essence of the Rummy/Bush legacy exposed for all to see. For all but certain congressional Republicans, that is.
Must be an election year.
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Weldon
... is my Congressman. Santorum and Specter my Senators. Woe is me. Curt is SUCH a loon it almost defies description, but here on my rowhouse block, I'm pretty certain that 90 out of 100 don't know who he is; and seven of the ten will vote for him out of habit. I've given to Sestak and will try again and convince my hopeless neighbors that Republicans only give a shit about them every second November, but I'm not optimistic ... since my Kerry-Edward sign went up two years ago, they hide the children.
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Why would the truth ever matter to reactionaries?
This has been a heck of a week. The "R"s trying to get rid of the estate tax for their billionaire supporters. Refusing to raise the minimum wage. The incredible posturing about needing to clutter up the Constitution with "crime of the ('60s) decade" legislation, punishing flag burning. Steering that bandwagon was none other than Confederate flag waver, George Allen.
Colbert: "You have not introduced a single piece of legislation since you entered Congress."
Westmoreland: "That's correct."
Colbert: "This has been called a do nothing Congress. Is it safe to say you're the do nothingest?
Westmoreland: "I, I, ..Well there's one other do nothiner. I don't know who that is, but they're a Democrat."
Colbert: "What can we get rid of to balance the budget?"
Westmoreland: "The Dept. of Education."
Colbert: "What are the Ten Commandments?"
Westmoreland: "You mean all of them?--Um... Don't murder. (long pause) Don't lie. Don't steal.Um..." (even longer pause) "I can't name them all.">
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Hmmm....
"Weldon said he had been informed by a "former intelligence officer" that the Bush administration had not searched all suspected sites in Iraq."
Well then, he's accusing the Bush administration of extraordinary incompetence, isn't he? After all, who starts a war to find WMDs and then doesn't search all potential WMD sites?
Only a moron.
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exactly what scott ritter predicted
I was against the Iraq War from the beginning, but I never claimed to know what they would find there. The Bush administration was obviously distorting data, but I was not privy to any other intelligence.
One thing I noticed at the time was that Scott Ritter was a consistent contrarian voice (whenever he was given a chance to speak). He said that there would not be any WMDs except for leftovers from before the first Gulf War that didn't work anymore. I thought this was an amazing prediction, but worthy of some attention since Ritter had been there inspecting Iraq's weapons.
Ritter was smeared in the march to war but I had this idea (naive in retrospect) that if his prediction turned out to be truth that he'd get some credit. This has still not happened, even though the scenario in Iraq (including the current quagmire) looks almost exactly like what Ritter said to expect some 3 1/2 years ago.
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2006 - 1986 = 30?
Good article, except for two things:
First, unless my math has gone all screwy, the warheads aren't depicted as 30 years old -- that would be made in 1976, not in the mid-80's.
Second, it's disappointing that it hasn't been noted that we had diplomatic relations with Iraq back in the 80s when these warheads were being made. We also had Donald Rumsfeld back then, too. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
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Operation Kitchen Sink...
I think we should let these folks continue to bray about the WMD's that have now been located. Let's see Rove spin starting a war over kitchen chemicals.
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How much does it cost to send a job "Weldon" to Iraq in US Dollars?
Hans Blik took more than a week-end offset and how much in US Dollars did that cost.
Be certain to take your AMERICAN FLAG with you!
and have a "GAY OLD TIME" searching from W ashingtons'
M adcow
D isease
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David Kay covering his ass
David Kay didn't look for these munitions because they were unmarked and spread throughout Iraq.
His testimony before congress was quite telling.
http://hasc3.house.gov/06-29-06full.asf
In one breath he talks about how dangerous these agents are (3:28:23). He goes on to say that it is deadly to even try to remove the chemicals from the weapons. Then he turns around says that they are no more dangerous than what can be kept underneath the kitchen sink 4:42:26.
Kay is not a scientist, he is a bureaucrat (can't you tell he's covering his ass). The scientist sitting next to Kay disputed Kays kitchen sink remark.
His dishonesty damages his character and hurts the country.
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No viable WMD
David Kay is quite correct. These aren't viable weapons of mass destruction. Yet some munitions remain hazardous and potentially lethal, and one might die if exposed to a sufficient quantity of agent in a confined space over a prolonged period of time (I suggest you don't try extracting the agent using an electric drill.) Otherwise, people just aren't going to stick around.