Letters to the Editor
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The Bottom Line
The bottom line is that it doesn't matter what jokes we make. What matters is what Gaubatz saw. If there is anyway to investigate, to rule in or rule out the existence of these additional WMD's or WMD parts, then we must make that investigation.
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Powell, and missed satelite photos
Seems like vast amounts of materail were moved. What happend to the satelite evidence. Compared to former Secretary of Defense Colin Powell, Condi Rice appears incompetent. A least Powell had satelite images to take to the U.N. security council.
How did all this materail get moved without being detected by our eyes in the sky. This has got to be the greatest magic trick of all time.
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Mosque Counting
For a project to count mosques, I recommend Fred Malek!
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If I'm not mistaken...
The whole "proscribed weapons were moved to Syria" theory took root BECAUSE satellite photos exist of covered trucks crossing the border when the invasion began. After these photos were analyzed, it was concluded the trucks were full of refugees.
I also recall reading the reason they were able to reach this conclusion is because of where the trucks originated FROM -- populated areas, as opposed to susptected WMD sites.
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Experimental error
I'm quite willing to believe that Saddam's army had chemical, biological, or nuclear material, probably lost in the shuffle or misplaced behind the crate with the _real_ Ark of the Covenant.
Similarly, European intelligence agencies believed he had _some_ of those things---they just didn't believe there was any comfortable level of certainty that he had enough of them to make a difference. I think this an important distinction because it goes unmentioned every time I hear someone in support of the war speak of the European agencies' "also believing that Saddam had WMDs". I have bleach and ammonia in my house; I don't have a good delivery system or enough of both to make them a credible threat to the City Fathers of Centerville.
"Nuclear materials" can include everything from low-level medical waste (which would be useful in making a bunch of minorly-but-nastily dirty bombs) to big bulbous things with fins and Bohr-atom logos on.
This is all to say: I can believe that this guy saw _something_ in those bunkers, but 1.) didn't see it too well or 2.) assumed that there were a lot more of them all around the country, making the amounts he did see seem more significant.
As for taking the stuff and running, we _know_ (and we against the war have been morbidly pleased to point out) that we guarded the oil wells much better (that is to say, "at all") than we did the ammo- and explosives-dumps. Their contents were not moved en masse to Iraq or Syria with the aid of the Learned Elders of Zion*---they were moved to the back of the shed on your allotment in Sadr City, under a tarp in a garage in exurban Tikrit, or sold for food or fuel a few years back...I see no reason why a small amount of scary-looking stuff wouldn't have been looted and stored or traded.
*They're backing the insurgents just to confuse Good Christians.
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Nabalnazi
Iran recently passed a law requiring Jews to wear distinctive clothing, although it temporarily suspended its implementation due to worldwide outrage about it.
The only problem being that the story about there being such a law was a complete fabrication created by the notorious neocon mouthpiece Amir Taheri of Benador Associates. The story was quickly and completely debunked and the original publisher, the National Post of Canada retracted the article and apologized. This has been well documented. see this piece at The Nation: (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/cohleresses).
Since the world (with the exception of the neocon dead-enders) knows that the story was false, your repeating it means that you are either a liar or extremely gullible (or more likely, both).
But, hey, as your boy Bush showed, you can't start wars of aggression without an intensive disinformation campaign first.
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There were no WMD's
They didn't exist. We didn't find them for that reason. All competent military personnel know this. Hans Blix, Scott Ritter and David Kay (Bush's chosen inspector) knew it and were in the best position to know. They all said the same thing. There were no WMD's. They weren't stolen. They didn't go to Syria, Jordan, Iran or anywhere else. Containment worked with Iraq prior to our illegal invasion.
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Re: green armbands
The only problem being that the story about there being such a law was a complete fabrication created by the notorious neocon mouthpiece Amir Taheri of Benador Associates. The story was quickly and completely debunked
It is certainly not the case that it was debunked. As I said, the law was never implemented due to the admirable efforts of Mr. Taberi to bring this to the attention of world public opinion. But irregardless, if you want another recent example which actually was implemented, there is the case of the Taliban who mandated that infidels in Afghanistan had to wear a color coded scarf identifying themselves: yellow for Jews, blue for Christians and orange for Hindus.
As for volunteer efforts supplementing the SANE efforts, here is a suggestion: collecting voiceprint data of Moslems resident in the USA. This could be done unobtrusively over the telephone. This could then be combined with cell phone surveillance/eavesdropping, computerized network relationship analysis to ferret out the Islamic terrorist sleeper cells and defuse these ticking time bombs before they go off.
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gaubatz is a nazi
Thanks for the tip on this wacko. I wrote about him on my blog, hope you can check it out.
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C'mon it must be true
I've read more than 10 columns by Sy Hersh right here at Salon over the years that prognosticated the invasion of Iran which would occur any day now. Been hearing it for more than 4 years. If that isn't warmongering I don't know what is.
C'mon dudes and dudettes, where's the damn invasion. You keep promising it, guaranteeing it. You even claim to have proof and fully thought out strategty that involves the well known super secret world wide Jewish conspiracy lobby.
So where is it?
C'mon don't be shy. Tell us again.