Posted on 10/25/2005 1:01:51 PM PDT by Matchett-PI
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.4655.ENR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1508905/posts?page=34#34
Glad to see Laurie Mylroie's article. Thanks. Most of those WMD's ended up in Syria. What else was in that endless stream of trucks heading for Syria as the war began?
Bless you! I was trying to think of her name this weekend, when in a discussion with a good soul who was drowning in the brackish MSM waters of spin that there were no WMDs.
Bump.
Saddam's money??
BTTT
You could toast marshmallows off that sarcasm.
So, its best stated that if anyone lied about WMD risk that list has to start with the Iraqi regime, the UN and then the lame stream media, the Clinton Administration and only after that do we begin to add in the deficiencies of the intel services and any conclusions reached by the Bush Administration.
Rush ran with this story today.
If Bush knew there were no WMDs and he lied and said there were just to take us to war for political gain, wouldn't he know that he would be found out?
Why not wait to start the war closer to election time? This way the fact there were no WMDs would not come out until after the election.
Why not just have Rove plant the WMDs over there?
Weren't there also RUSSIANS in the trucks?
Bump to the top.
Do you have a working link for this?
I wonder if the UN oil-for-food scandal has something to do with all this also. The embargo really didn't stop France, Germany, and Russia from making a profit smuggling arms to Saddam. Saddam had his public relations coup (US killing children.) UN folks and Saddam both making money hand over fist. The gravy train might end if the WMD were known to be destroyed.
I suspect Saddam had a deeper game going. He was continuing work, mostly through France. There were barrels and barrels of precursor finds with French labelling.
ping
Laurie Mylroie is an expert on Issues related to Iraq, al Qaida and their relationship. I'm sorry that she hasn't written anything for some time. I always looked for her and Edward Jay Epstein's columns. Epstein was focusing intently on the Prague Connection and then dropped for his new book on Hollywood. It's a shame he hasn't picked up Atta, Prague and Able Danger.
Another person who emphatically believes that Iraq and WMDs and moved them to Syria en route possibly to the Bekaa Valley is recently retired USMC Gernal Michael P 'Rifle' Delong.
Ooh-rah!
IJH
On November 16 (1997), Cohen made a widely reported appearance on ABC's This Week in which he placed a five-pound bag of sugar on the table and stated that that amount of anthrax "would destroy at least half the population" of Washington, D.C. Cohen explained how fast a person could die once exposed to anthrax. "One of the things we found with anthrax is that one breath and you are likely to face death within five days. One small particle of anthrax would produce death within five days." And he noted that Iraq "has had enormous amounts" of anthrax. Cohen also spoke on the extreme lethality of VX nerve agent: "One drop [of VX] from this particular thimble as such -- one single drop will kill you within a few minutes." And he reminded the world that Saddam may have enough VX to kill "millions, millions, if it were properly dispersed and through aerosol mechanisms."
In Sacramento, November 15 (1997), Clinton painted a bleak future if nations did not cooperate against "organized forces of destruction," telling the audience that only a small amount of "nuclear cake put in a bomb would do ten times as much damage as the Oklahoma City bomb did." Effectively dealing with proliferation and not letting weapons "fall into the wrong hands" is "fundamentally what is stake in the stand off we're having in Iraq today."
He asked Americans to not to view the current crisis as a "replay" of the Gulf War in 1991. Instead, "think about it in terms of the innocent Japanese people that died in the subway when the sarin gas was released [by the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo in 1995]; and how important it is for every responsible government in the world to do everything that can possibly be done not to let big stores of chemical or biological weapons fall into the wrong hands, not to let irresponsible people develop the capacity to put them in warheads on missiles or put them in briefcases that could be exploded in small rooms. And I say this not to frighten you."
On November 25 (1997), the Pentagon released "Proliferation: Threat and Response." A few things stand out in the report. In the section on Iraq, the word "terrorism" (in any form) is not mentioned. It is, though, cited in the sections on Libya and Iran. The report stated that Iraq "probably has hidden" chemical munitions, "may retain some missile warheads" from its old biological program, and could jump-start production of chemical and biological weapons "should UN sanctions and monitoring end or be substantially reduced."
Cohen began his press briefing on the Pentagon report by showing a picture of a Kurdish mother and her child who had been gassed by Saddam's army. A bit later, standing besides the gruesome image, he described death on a mass scale. "One drop [of VX nerve agent] on your finger will produce death in a matter of just a few moments. Now the UN believes that Saddam may have produced as much as 200 tons of VX, and this would, of course, be theoretically enough to kill every man, woman and child on the face of the earth." He then sketched an image of a massive chemical attack on an American city. Recalling Saddam's use of poison gas and the sarin attack in Tokyo, Cohen warned that "we face a clear and present danger today" and reminded people that the "terrorist who bombed the World Trade Center in New York had in mind the destruction and deaths of some 250,000 people that they were determined to kill."
Asked whether Iraq had moved "any of his programs underground into these hardened facilities," Cohen responded that he didn't know whether Saddam had "moved these chemicals or biological agents and materials --- not only the agents themselves, but documentation .... So we don't know whether they've moved them into hardened shelters or underground bunkers." He spoke of Iraqi weapons as fact, not a probability or likelihood"
A few days later, on February 7 (1998), Clinton, joined by Prime Minister Blair, devoted his Saturday radio address to Iraq. Noting the two were speaking from the same room where FDR and Churchill "charted our path victory in World War II," Clinton told Americans that we now face "a new nexus of threats, none more dangerous than chemical and biological weapons, and the terrorists, criminals and outlaw states that seek to acquire them." He warned that "Iraq continues to conceal chemical and biological weapon[s]," "has the "missiles that can deliver them" and "has the capacity to quickly restart production of these weapons."
And it just goes on and on... Link to Project for the American Century Site
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