Reply With QuoteCCHF, crap, that's in the same group of illnesses as Ebola. We should have gone in just for messing with that alone. As if there were not plenty of other valid reasons besides WMD for invading Iraq.
The media did not report the entire statement to Congress of David Kay of the CIA, who declares they found some WMD in IRAQ. Here is an excerpt that was not reported:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affair..._10022003.html
"What have we found and what have we not found in the first 3 months of our work?
We have discovered dozens of WMD-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations during the inspections that began in late 2002. The discovery of these deliberate concealment efforts have come about both through the admissions of Iraqi scientists and officials concerning information they deliberately withheld and through physical evidence of equipment and activities that ISG has discovered that should have been declared to the UN. Let me just give you a few examples of these concealment efforts, some of which I will elaborate on later:
· A clandestine network of laboratories and safehouses within the Iraqi Intelligence Service that contained equipment subject to UN monitoring and suitable for continuing CBW research.
· A prison laboratory complex, possibly used in human testing of BW agents, that Iraqi officials working to prepare for UN inspections were explicitly ordered not to declare to the UN.
· Reference strains of biological organisms concealed in a scientist's home, one of which can be used to produce biological weapons.
· New research on BW-applicable agents, Brucella and Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), and continuing work on ricin and aflatoxin were not declared to the UN.
· Documents and equipment, hidden in scientists' homes, that would have been useful in resuming uranium enrichment by centrifuge and electromagnetic isotope separation (EMIS).
· A line of UAVs not fully declared at an undeclared production facility and an admission that they had tested one of their declared UAVs out to a range of 500 km, 350 km beyond the permissible limit.
· Continuing covert capability to manufacture fuel propellant useful only for prohibited SCUD variant missiles, a capability that was maintained at least until the end of 2001 and that cooperating Iraqi scientists have said they were told to conceal from the UN.
· Plans and advanced design work for new long-range missiles with ranges up to at least 1000 km - well beyond the 150 km range limit imposed by the UN. Missiles of a 1000 km range would have allowed Iraq to threaten targets through out the Middle East, including Ankara, Cairo, and Abu Dhabi.
· Clandestine attempts between late-1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300 km range ballistic missiles --probably the No Dong -- 300 km range anti-ship cruise missiles, and other prohibited military equipment."
CCHF, crap, that's in the same group of illnesses as Ebola. We should have gone in just for messing with that alone. As if there were not plenty of other valid reasons besides WMD for invading Iraq.
After reading what DaveC posted it's scarry to think if we didn't go to war, especially if Saddam wanted to use WMD.
Kudos to you DaveC! Thanks for posting that information! Now when Catmando and AzDon bitch about WMD and Bush we can simply post a link to that information.
Ahhhh, but is that as serious and objective a website as talkingmonkey or counterpunch?
[ October 06, 2003, 05:18 PM: Message edited by: eliminatedsprinter ]
The biased left-wing media were very subtle on this matter. They reported in their 10 second sound–bites that no “stockpiles” of WMD were found. However, WMD were in fact found.
Plus their not done looking through the stockpiles yet.
Bush never spoke of the “imminent” theory of WMD but rather the existence of these programs that were being hidden from the UN.
Do you see how the subtle bias in the big media works?
Do you see the other problem? Creation of a long-range missles and unmanned drones for delivery of WMD. Add these to their WMD they owned and their neighbors (including US allies & troops) have serious problems.
Dave C <--- member of vast right wing conspiracy.
[ October 06, 2003, 06:49 PM: Message edited by: Dave C ]
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