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Weapons of Mass Destruction ( or Distortion or Deception? You decide...)
various FR links | 06-07-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 06/07/2003 3:28:43 PM PDT by backhoe

What about all this stuff?

WARNING: Gathering WMD storm a crock. See what Clinton told nation in 1998...

The Guardian Fully Retracts BOTH Powell/Straw Story AND Wolfowitz "It's All About Oil" Story

CIA convinced truck-trailers held bioweapons labs ^

IRAQ: WMD source 'was senior Iraqi officer'

FAS (Fed Am Scientist) Report: Iraqi Precursor Chemicals Stored Separately for Weapon-side Mixing

THE ROAD ENDS FOR WMD ON WHEELS

Coalition forces enter possible WMD site

Initial tests suggest WMD "cocktail" found in Iraq (**Of special note--post #58, by Archy)

U.S. finds new evidence of Iraqi WMD (NBC training school, antidotes)

Chem-weapons lab believed discovered

BRITS' CHILLING CHEM-NUKE FIND

CAPTURED FOES FOUND WITH CHEM-WAR GEAR

EUPHRATES 'POISONED'

MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River

Is the Activity at Al Qaim Related to Nuclear Efforts?

U.S. probing nuclear facility (Al Tuwaitha Follow Up)

Team Inspects suspected plutonium site (update by the journalist who broke original story, NEW info)

Underground Nuclear Facility Found in Iraq

Marines hold Iraqi nuclear site built by French

U.S. Marines Guard Secret Iraqi City with Very Hot Nuclear Radiation Levels

And from Freeper "HatSteel":

Terrorist devices, chemical weapons found in Iraq

Suspicious Iraqi Drums - UPDATE

Suspected bioweapons labs found

Searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction, Larry Elder

Iraq's Weapons and the Road to War

Iraqi Scientist Links Weapons to 'Dual Use' Facilities, White House Says

IRAQ: U.S. Analysts Link Iraq Labs to Germ Arms

Illicit Arms Kept Till Eve of War, an Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert

Herald Sun: Soldiers find Iraqi chemical 'dump'

***Germany's leading role in arming Iraq

*Germany intercepts (30 tonnes) chemicals (may be used to make nerve gas) for N Korea

New DOD team to hunt for intel as well as weapons

***Chemical Weapons Programs

Capture of chemical expert could help U.S. weapons hunt in Iraq (Emad Husayn Abdulla al-Ani)

Belgium Finds Nerve Gas Ingredient in Letters

Banned missile programme found in Iraq

Administration to Announce 'Rollback' Strategy for WMD

Suspicious Iraqi Drums Preliminary Testing Suggests Chemical Agents; More Testing Needed

2 trailers deemed biological arms labs

***Table 2: Characteristics of Chemical Warfare Agents: Commercial Uses of Chemicals or Precursor Chemicals

******CENTAF IRAQ'S CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS PROGRAM


And I should add--

October 1998:Senate Democrats Signed Letter Urging Clinton To Attack Saddam Over WMDs, just posted today.

23 posted on 06/07/2003 11:26 AM EDT by MizSterious (Support whirled peas!)

More:
CNN ^ | Feb. 17, 1998 | Bill Clinton - Text of President Clinton's address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff on Iraq. [Excerpt]:
 
 
CIA Web Site: Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs
 
 
IRAQ: Powell Defends Information He Used to Justify Iraq War
 
Iraq & Terrorism
"World's most dangerous woman" heads Iraq's weapons programme
 
'New urgency' over Saddam: Baghdad makes 'recent breakthrough' in production of nuke bomb
 
How Saddam Got Weapons of Mass Destruction
 
 
http://www.iaea.or.at/worldatom/Programmes/ActionTeam/nwp2.html
Fact Sheet: Iraq's Nuclear Weapon Programme
 
Freeper Resource: Sleuthing The Iraq-Bin Laden Connection (Redone)
 
Exploring Iraq link to pre-Sept. 11 acts

Iraq - Scotsman says Saddam has weapons to wipe out world's population, nuclear bomb within 3 years

Target: Safe Harbor - Bush's case against Iraq is iron-clad post-9/11.

 
Is Iraq rearming? (TRANSLATION: IRAQ RE-ARMING)

The Iraq Connection - Was Saddam involved in OK City and the 1st WTC bombing? ~ Micah Morrison

West Nile Virus Links to Saddam and Castro

 

Links to information on Iraqi Nuclear Weapons Systems and Design (VERY Scary!)

IRAQ- some links to terror

Anyone who is able to type "iraqwatch.org" into a browser will arrive at the Saddam military weapons data base compiled by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, so often quoted back in the years of U.S.-Soviet nuclear tensions. The Iraq Watch data base has enough history and documentation on Saddam's weapons of mass destruction to occupy a horrified reader for days.

You mention Ramadam in your message regarding his report on Saddam's labs -- here is a link to a story titled "West Nile Mystery" that appeared in New Yorker in 1999 by Robert Preston (remember "The Hot Zone"?). The article relays ramadan's story... worth the read. According to the story, Saddam's remake of the West Nile Virus causes a 97% fatality rate.
 
Links to information on Iraqi Nuclear Weapons Systems and Design (VERY Scary!)

 
Older links:
-IRAQ- some links to terror--
 
-All Terror, All the Time-- FR's links to NBC Warfare, Terror, and More...--


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To: backhoe
Next time you hear some leftist say "... as yet no evidence of WMD has been found..." make them eat this list, and then have them recite these words..."I don't know what the f**k I am talking about, I don't know..." etc, etc.
21 posted on 06/07/2003 4:52:39 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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To: Richard Axtell
make them eat this list, and then...

Thank you, I haven't had such a good laugh in a long, long time!

22 posted on 06/07/2003 5:00:09 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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To: backhoe
Backhoe wrote: Appreciate the comments... I saw somewhere a link detailing how the Iraqi chemical weapons program was- what do you call the bloody thing?- where the components are made only at the last moment & then combined. So there would never be large stocks of, say, VX.

In industry this is called just-in-time delivery.

23 posted on 06/07/2003 5:04:22 PM PDT by quidnunc (Omnis Gaul delenda est)
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To: backhoe
Here's the problem, backhoe, it seems to me. I went to the first link, desperate to find hard evidence to convince my skeptical friends. What did I find? A story about trailers that the CIA is convinced have only the purpose of WMD. I scroll down to another in Insight. It talks about unnamed defectors, but there is no hard evidence.

Now, that is enough to buttress the convictions of true believers, but it isn't good enough to sway undecided people. Forget the "hate Bush, no matter what" people. There are reasonable, reasonably informed people who say, "where's the beef?" If these articles are the beef, then I am scared to death: the a??holes on the left must be right. I won't go through more. You have a certain amount of our attention. Whittle them down, please, to hard evidence and not inference or unnamed "defectors."

24 posted on 06/07/2003 5:13:19 PM PDT by jammer
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To: CFC__VRWC; All
Located the link!

FAS (Fed Am Scientist) Report: Iraqi Precursor Chemicals Stored Separately for Weapon-side Mixing

25 posted on 06/07/2003 5:17:13 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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To: backhoe
Look at the 5th link listed above--that's one of the sources you're looking for. There might be more.
26 posted on 06/07/2003 5:19:23 PM PDT by MizSterious (Support whirled peas!)
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To: backhoe
Woops, see that you've found it!
27 posted on 06/07/2003 5:21:46 PM PDT by MizSterious (Support whirled peas!)
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To: MizSterious
Even so, thanks- I do miss and forget things.
28 posted on 06/07/2003 5:26:14 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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To: backhoe
Thank you for all your hard work, backhoe.

Bookmarked and bumped.
29 posted on 06/07/2003 5:30:25 PM PDT by baseballmom
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To: baseballmom
I appreciate that, thank you.
( And I guess it's time to drop offline; wife & dog are giving me dirty looks... )
30 posted on 06/07/2003 5:33:10 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old keyboard cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the sunset...)
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To: backhoe
About half these articles you've revived have already been dismissed as inaccurate; most of the remainder are regurgitation of the same intelligence that's currently under fire. Don't you think that if all your links had substance, then we wouldn't even be having this debate?
31 posted on 06/07/2003 5:39:16 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
On the Net: Federation of American Scientists on Iran's nuclear arms program: http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iran/nuke/index.html
32 posted on 06/07/2003 5:48:07 PM PDT by certify
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To: certify
What relevance do Iran's nuclear programs have to the question at hand?
33 posted on 06/07/2003 5:49:38 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: backhoe
Thanks for the links. You know one of the things that really irritates me is that the leftists and the UN and all of the anti-war crowd were willing to give the inspectors all the time they wanted, and without having to fight a war! The U.S. and it's allies have had to fight a war, stabilize a country,feed the people, guard the oil wells and restore electricity AND SEARCH FOR WMDS! And all in only 6 weeks!
34 posted on 06/07/2003 6:34:48 PM PDT by Lady In Blue (Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld,Rice 2004)
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To: backhoe
And don't forget all of the tons of records found in the Iraqi Intelligence building. What do you want to bet that after they have been examined,they'll key us into a lot of what was going on in Husseins WMD program?!
35 posted on 06/07/2003 6:37:17 PM PDT by Lady In Blue (Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld,Rice 2004)
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To: Lady In Blue
btt
36 posted on 06/07/2003 6:40:04 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: backhoe
Statement by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle on a Resolution Authorizing the President to Use Force, if Necessary, to End the Threat to World Peace from Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Thursday, October 10, 2002
"Saddam Hussein has stockpiled, weaponized, and used chemical and biological weapons. And he has made no secret of his desire to acquire nuclear weapons. He has ignored international agreements and frustrated the efforts of international inspectors, and his ambitions today are as unrelenting as they have ever been."

"As a condition of the truce that ended the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein agreed to eliminate Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and to abandon all efforts to develop or deliver such weapons. That agreement is spelled out in UN Security Council Resolution 687. Iraq has never complied with the resolution. For the first seven years after the Gulf War, it tried to deceive UN weapons inspectors, block their access to key sites and make it impossible for them to do their jobs. Finally, in October 1998, the UN was left with no choice but to withdraw its inspectors from Iraq. As a result, we do not know exactly what is now in Iraq’s arsenal."

"We do know, however, that Iraq has weaponized thousands of gallons of anthrax and other deadly biological agents. We know that Iraq maintains stockpiles of some of world’s deadliest chemical weapons, including VX, sarin and mustard gas. We know that Iraq is developing deadlier ways to deliver these horrible weapons, including unmanned drones and long-range ballistic missiles. And we know that Saddam Hussein is committed to one day possessing nuclear weapons. If that should happen, instead of simply bullying the Gulf region, he could dominate it. Instead of threatening only his neighbors, he would become a grave threat to US security and to global security. The threat posed by Saddam Hussein may not be imminent. But it is real. It is growing. And it cannot be ignored. ..."

"Second: We need to make it clear to the world that the reason we would use force in Iraq is to remove Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. I would prefer that this goal had been made explicit in this resolution. However, it is clear from this debate that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction are the principal threat to the United States -- and the only threat that would justify the use of United States military force against Iraq. It is the threat that the President cited repeatedly in his speech to the American people Monday night. It may also be the only threat that can rally the world to support our efforts. Therefore, we expect, and success demands, that the Administration not lose sight of this essential mission."

37 posted on 06/07/2003 6:41:26 PM PDT by ChadGore (Piss off a liberal: Hire Someone.)
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To: backhoe
Way to go!

Thanks for all of your great work!

38 posted on 06/07/2003 8:55:06 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and his Weapons of Mass Destruction?)
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To: backhoe
I'll put this on here which has a great number of links to more recent articles:

IRAQ: Powell Defends Information He Used to Justify Iraq War

39 posted on 06/07/2003 9:08:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and his Weapons of Mass Destruction?)
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To: backhoe; *Bush Doctrine Unfold; *war_list; W.O.T.; seamole; Lion's Cub; Libertarianize the GOP; ...
Many many links here!

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40 posted on 06/07/2003 9:12:22 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and his Weapons of Mass Destruction?)
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