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US Republicans signal readiness to resume Iraq weapons probe
AFP/Yahoo ^ | 12/22/03 | Unknown

Posted on 12/23/2003 6:10:07 AM PST by JohnGalt

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To: gaspar

This POS RINO (shown here with his previous fat drunk wife) is my Senator, on the Select Intelligence Committee, and has said not one word to my knowledge about Rockefeller's treason.

22 posted on 12/23/2003 6:54:53 AM PST by putupon ("Borders? We don' need no steenkin' borders!"-Presidente Jorge Dubya del Rino Arbusto)
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To: putupon
Once upon a time, Michael Jackson looked like Diana Ross -- and it was weird. But as he gets older, I think he looks more like Elizabeth Taylor -- and it's a lot weirder.
23 posted on 12/23/2003 7:01:09 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (France delenda est)
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To: seamole
Please, as if we have not been on the same side for social issues. I see you possess all the loyalty of a neocon, that is for sure.

Click on the profile first, buddy.

I am a Conservative libertarian; I believe abortion is murder; sex outside of marriage is immoral.

I am a Christian.

I believe in abolishing any form of direct taxation from the federal government.

I believe in closing the borders to legal, let alone, illegal immigration.

I believe a well-armed citizenry is the basis of national defense, not 'global democratic revolutions.'

I believe in an end to fiat federally controlled currency and a return to the gold standard.

Do you really want to go toe to toe with who is more conservative on the issues, cause I'd be happy to keep going?
24 posted on 12/23/2003 7:01:28 AM PST by JohnGalt ("Nothing happened on 9/11 to make the federal government more competent.")
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To: JohnGalt
Aug 25, 2003 - U.S. intelligence suspects Iraq's weapons of mass destruction have finally been located.

Unfortunately, getting to them will be nearly impossible for the United States and its allies, because the containers with the strategic materials are not in Iraq.

Instead they are located in Lebanon's heavily-fortified Bekaa Valley, swarming with Iranian and Syrian forces, and Hizbullah and ex-Iraqi agents, Geostrategy-Direct.com will report in tomorrow's new weekly edition.

U.S. intelligence first identified a stream of tractor-trailer trucks moving from Iraq to Syria to Lebanon in January 2003. The significance of this sighting did not register on the CIA at the time.

Report: U.S suspects Iraqi WMD in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley

WASHINGTON, Oct 28, 2003 — The director of a top American spy agency said Tuesday that he believed that material from Iraq's illicit weapons program had been transported into Syria and perhaps other countries as part of an effort by the Iraqis to disperse and destroy evidence immediately before the recent war.

The official, James R. Clapper Jr., a retired lieutenant general, said satellite imagery showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria, just before the American invasion in March, led him to believe that illicit weapons material "unquestionably" had been moved out of Iraq.

Iraqis Removed Arms Material, U.S. Aide Says

The United States has demanded that the regime of President Bashar Assad surrender Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. U.S. officials said the Bush administration has been examining a range of sanctions to pressure Damascus to surrender Iraqi WMD assets and scientists. They said the flight of Iraqi biological and nuclear components and scientists from Iraq could turn Syria into the next WMD threat to the United States and its allies in the Middle East and southern Europe. Officials said Bush has been urged by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to move quickly against Damascus. Officials said the extent of the Iraqi-Syrian WMD connection was disclosed by Jaffar Jaffar, regarded as the father of Iraq's nuclear program. Last week, Jaffar fled to Syria and then made his way to an unidentified Arab country, where he surrendered to U.S. authorities, Middle East Newsline reported.

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Oh, and BTW...WMD HAS been discovered:

The vial of botulinum bacteria discovered in Iraq by U.S. arms inspectors – which experts call the most poisonous substance known to man – is "a weapon of mass destruction," the State Department's top spokesman announced yesterday. "Botulinum kills people, it kills people in large quantities. Botulinum is a weapon of mass destruction, yes," said State spokesman Richard Boucher," according to an Agence France-Presse report. "Anything that destroys on a massive scale is a weapon of mass destruction." The botulinum had been stored in a vial discovered in an Iraqi scientist's refrigerator, where it had been stored for safe keeping since 1993. Noting that the vial of live botulinum bacteria had been hidden in an Iraqi scientist's home refrigerator, Kay, testifying before Congress, said the discovery "illustrates the point ... about the difficulty of locating small stocks of material that can be used to covertly surge production of deadly weapons."

According to Agence France-Presse, the Center for Civilian Bio-defense Strategies at Johns Hopkins University says: "Botulinum toxin is the single most poisonous substance known" and "poses a major bioweapons threat because of its extreme potency and lethality, its ease of production, transport and misuse, and the potential need for prolonged intensive care in affected persons."

In fact, said Kay, his team has found signs that arms may have been moved out of the country before Saddam's fall. [From Kay's own mouth] When reporters asked Kay at a telephone press conference whether chemical or biological weapons had been moved out of Iraq before the March invasion, reports AFP, the lead inspector replied: "We have multiple reports from Iraqis of substances being moved across borders." He added: "We've got information indicating movement to Iran, Syria, Jordan, essentially all states that border the north with Iraq, that's not surprising those routes have been long used. At least with regard to Syria and Jordan, certainly senior Iraqi officials, both military and scientific, moved to both countries pre-conflict and during the conflict, and some immediately after the conflict."

Earlier this week, biological and chemical weapons turned up in Kuwait, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyassah.

The pro-government daily reported Kuwaiti security forces foiled an attempted smuggling of $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country. Citing an unnamed security source, Al-Siyassah said the smugglers had been under surveillance since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested "in due time."

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And David Kay did NOT quit because he gave up on the WMD, the article you linked to makes that clear, the search goes on.

25 posted on 12/23/2003 7:03:25 AM PST by ravingnutter
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To: Mike4Freedom
Good post.

Try to ignore my bomb throwing, but you have captured what is at stake here.

A friend of the Republic,
26 posted on 12/23/2003 7:03:39 AM PST by JohnGalt ("Nothing happened on 9/11 to make the federal government more competent.")
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To: ClearCase_guy
I think he looks more like Elizabeth Taylor -- and it's a lot weirder.

Weird is the fat slob dumping Senator Jawn to go back to Hollyweird and adopt a pedophile.

27 posted on 12/23/2003 7:05:00 AM PST by putupon ("Borders? We don' need no steenkin' borders!"-Presidente Jorge Dubya del Rino Arbusto)
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To: ravingnutter
We said the same thing when Ken Starr stepped down and Robert Ray stepped in.



28 posted on 12/23/2003 7:05:04 AM PST by JohnGalt ("Nothing happened on 9/11 to make the federal government more competent.")
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To: ravingnutter
"The pro-government daily reported Kuwaiti security forces foiled an attempted smuggling of $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country. Citing an unnamed security source, Al-Siyassah said the smugglers had been under surveillance since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested "in due time." "


The Kuwaiti government said the rumors were unfounded. Historical Artifacts had been discovered, not WMD.

Why on Earth would you posting this nonsense again?


Who's side are you on?
30 posted on 12/23/2003 7:11:26 AM PST by JohnGalt ("Nothing happened on 9/11 to make the federal government more competent.")
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To: seamole
I simply did not buy into a story designed to scare soccer moms and while you Wilsonians launch your debt financed wars abroad, which only increases the national security threat posed by the Chinese and the Arab world at large should they switch to the Euro, conservatives are stifle at home trying to close the borders and restore the institution of a well armed citizenry.
31 posted on 12/23/2003 7:17:49 AM PST by JohnGalt ("Nothing happened on 9/11 to make the federal government more competent.")
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To: seamole
Are you talking about 1981?

LOL, Quit living in the past, man.
33 posted on 12/23/2003 7:30:17 AM PST by JohnGalt ("Nothing happened on 9/11 to make the federal government more competent.")
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To: JohnGalt
You may well be a conservative, but then you don't toe the line on everything the cerrent GOP administration says or does. This leads to the charge of; commie, liberal, naysayer.... Being a conservative/libertarian doesn't = support GOP 100%. Seems strange that people who dislike the mainstream media and Klintoon Kool aid drinkers, expect blind faith & allegiance to what they beleive.
Keep the faith.
35 posted on 12/23/2003 7:37:08 AM PST by familyofman
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To: seamole
Are you suggesting the United States would be justified in attacking any country that possess uranium?

36 posted on 12/23/2003 7:38:05 AM PST by JohnGalt ("Nothing happened on 9/11 to make the federal government more competent.")
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To: JohnGalt
Some people are too stupid to comprehend the difference between a WMD and a WMD program.

So I guess this lie will continue to work with those people. I doubt that there is a significant number of people people though, that far down the tail of a Bell curve.

38 posted on 12/23/2003 7:42:07 AM PST by mrsmith
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To: familyofman
Fox News, owned by a purveyor of soft and hard core pornography, taught them many bad habits.

Fear not, for I bring good tidings, a savior has been born.

Yours in liberty,
39 posted on 12/23/2003 7:45:15 AM PST by JohnGalt ("Nothing happened on 9/11 to make the federal government more competent.")
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To: Mike4Freedom
I think that we can eliminate choice 3 right now

Sorry Mike but I think we can eliminate you as an analyst. We know he had WMDS, we just don't know what he did with them. My guess is the Bekaa but it could just as well be a rathole somewhere.

Hopefully, none was transferred to Ansar al Islam but I'm wouldn't bet on it.

We are being asked by the press and some here at FR to belive that Iraq had no WMD while we know a country like Libya admittedly did. It is orwellian, up is down, left is right. I repeat, we know Iraq had WMD, the only question remianing is where are they now, not did he have them.

40 posted on 12/23/2003 7:45:26 AM PST by jwalsh07
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