[advance_copy]

These findings of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq's WMD should make us thankful that the United States finally dealt forcefully with this threat. The MSM has severely mischaracterized these findings, saying that the ISG concluded there was no effort by Saddam to reconstitute WMD capability. Who can conclude anything other than press distortions are intended to undermine the war in Iraq?

Saddam's intelligence service was developing chemical weapons and poisons for "intelligence operations". Was the IIS involved with terrorists? A President of the United States who is committed to protecting his country could not afford such a risk.

[tomnbeverly]

I find it hard to believe that The Senate Intelligence committe did not have fore knowledge of the above events... Senators Kerry and Edwards have some explaining to do...

[GailA]

MASTER LIST UN OIL/SEX FOR FOOD SCANDALS

[jwalsh07]

4. "ISG uncovered information that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) maintained throughout 1991 to 2003 a set of undeclared covert laboratories to research and test various chemicals and poisons, primarily for intelligence operations."

Sheesh, they might run an op by mailing letters to Congress laced with anthrax.

[CDB]

Re WMD, I always find it absolutely unbelievable the no one in the MSM or elsewhere has ever mentioned that the fact that the Japanese Army in the-Manchukuo, China (currently, NE China), which carried out a lot of grim chemical and bacterialogical "experiments" during WWII, and which was ordered to dispose of its WMD in 1945, did such an effective job of hiding them, that mustard gas containers have been uncovered OVER 50 YEARS LATER by unsuspecting Chinese construction workers. If the Japanese Army could do such a "good job" of concealment in 1945, isn't it reasonable to expect the Iraqi bad guys to have done the same in 2003?