no WMD since 91

CIA ^ | 10/06/2004 | cia

[fhlh]

This report relays the findings of the Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction.

We are aware that the files comprising this 1,000-page report are extremely large and, in practice, available only to visitors who have a broadband connection to our site. Thus, we extracted the key findings from each of the major sections of the report and provide them as a separate, much smaller file. All of the files linked below are in PDF format and require Adobe's free Acrobat® Reader™ to view. We plan to post an HTML version of the complete report soon and appreciate visitors' patience in the interim.

more at

http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/index.html

[fhlh]

http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/index.html

Guess that's that... Question, why is the CIA after Bush?

[ican'tbelieveit]

The report supports Bush's claim that Saddam was an imminent threat, that he was seeking WMD. (From reports I have seen today).

[lowbridge]

why is the CIA after Bush?

Clinton era holdovers doing their october surprise.

Whats your SN over at DU?

[goright]

So--Tell me why SH didn't admit it?? It would have prevented the coalition from going in there and avoided conflict

[fhlh]

I admit, I've not read the whole thing, I also admit I will NOT take what the MSM says about it seriously... but I do find the fact that FOXNEWS.COM has "Report Finds No Iraq WMD After '91" plastered all over it's website a bit.... MSMish of them...

[demlosers]

A flawed bureaucratic system that is threatened by the current administration

[fhlh]

lol... am I be accused of trolling?

[cripplecreek]

I expect the democrats will get their pretty panties in a wad over this report but in the end it's an issue that most Americans don't care about. We know that saddam in power was threat enough. The democrats will preach loud and long....to the choir.

[tomnbeverly]

Kerry and Edwards have some explaining to do since they were both on the Senate Intelligence committee... But don't worry The President doesn't mind that they lied to him about Sadaam not having WMD's... The President knew right after 9/11 sooner than most that we could no longer fail to imagine the threat allowing it to materialize before taking action. How many American Lives has the president saved with his Actions... not his words... his actions... hundreds of thousands I presume.

[George Smiley]

What about the "three carloads" they found in Jordan? that turned out to be twenty metric tons of WMD?

They're freakin' lying.

But why?

[lowbridge]

Just askin....

[hawkeye101]

IMHO, and this is only a hunch, the anthrax mail attacks in Sep-Oct 2001 were planted by Iraqi agents. If this was ever proven, this would be quite the "October Surprise".

[CouncilofTrent]

No, you see, the Bush Administration took these WMD's and threw them into the Sun, using Haliburton, and then they tried to hide it by trying to cover up the "Two Americas" bit. OHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOO! (of course, im being very sarcastic)

[ican'tbelieveit]

Here are a couple of quotes off of the Yahoo article:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&e=2&u=/afp/us_iraq_weapons

"As in the other WMD areas, Saddam sought to sustain the requisite knowledge base to restart the program eventually and ... to sustain the inherent capability to produce such weapons as circumstances permitted in the future," he said.


"Despite these reports and finds, I still do not expect that militarily significant WMD stocks are cached in Iraq," Duelfer told the Senate Armed Services Committee. (I find cached to be the important word in this sentence).


"Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability -- in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks -- but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare capabilities."

[Zeroisanumber]

Guess that's that... Question, why is the CIA after Bush?

CIA's been taking a lot of bullets for the President. Tenent's out, and a lot of seasoned agents came off looking like idiots because of the WMD debacle. They feel like they've been hung out to dry, and they're not happy about it.

[beyond the sea]

Just askin....

more like accusing

[netmilsmom]

Why does this article say just the opposite?

http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200410\SPE20041004a.html

[jwalsh07]

CIA's been taking a lot of bullets for the President. Tenent's out, and a lot of seasoned agents came off looking like idiots because of the WMD debacle. They feel like they've been hung out to dry, and they're not happy about it.

In what solar system?

[perez24]

But if the seasoned agents were the ones giving the wrong information, why should they feel that the President hung them out to dry?

[raptor29]

You know, I must have been dreaming about nine months ago when watching a two-hour History Channel special on the WMD's found and destroyed by American Inspectors all during the 1990's. It was a staggering total, tens of thousands of barrels of the various chemical weapons, ridiculous amounts. And these inspectors were detailing how they would show up at a certain site, not be allowed in for 4 hours while there was frantic activity going on inside, and then they would be allowed in. And then finally, they were told to go home, and the inspections ended in the late 1990's. I must have been hallucinating, but don't you think the Bush administration could, oh, I don't know, break out some video from that documentary?