COVERT UNIT HUNTED FOR IRAQI ARMS

A covert Army Special Forces unit, operating in Iraq since before the war began in March, has played a dominant but ultimately unsuccessful role in the Bush administration's stymied hunt for weapons of mass destruction, according to military and intelligence sources in Baghdad and Washington.

Task Force 20, whose existence and mission are classified, is drawn from the elite Army special mission units known popularly as Delta Force. It sent a stream of initially promising reports to a limited circle of planners and policymakers in Washington pointing to the possibility of weapons finds. The reports helped feed the optimism expressed by President Bush and his senior national security advisers that proscribed weapons would be found.

Our guys watched many mil-spec truck convoys flow into Syria for the year Saddamn had during the French consprired UN talkathon.

The Un wanted years to find WMD, etc., we're allowed only weeks before the socialist 5-column starts betraying our nation at war.

In '98, the Democrat leadership signed a letter urging XXX42 to wage war. Ain't showboating grand.

I'm tellin' ya... if they aren't looking in dog kennels and sheep barns, then they'll never find the WMD. $600 million was found in a dog kennel. Was that on the list of the top 1000 places to look for stashed money? I doubt it.

And the same is true for the WMD. They aren't going to be found in ammo dumps, in bunkers, in hospitals, in schools, or in military vehicles. They are going to be found in dog kennels, sheep barns, milk trucks, mud huts, and even "hidden in plain sight."

I know we have to go through the motions of looking at the list of 1000 possible/suspected WMD sites, but I hope no one is holding their breath for them to be found at those sites. They will be found where no one expected them to be... like in dog kennels.

To the nay-sayers who think the WMD don't exist at all: We haven't found Saddam, Uday, or Qusai either, yet we know they exist. And we don't know where all those bars of Gold are coming from, but they obviously exist. So just because we haven't found the WMD YET, doesn't mean they didn't/don't exist. Patience my friends, patience.

The biggest problem is the term we give to WMD's. The ultimate WMD is the nuclear varity. The others can be major, but not nearly as serious. Chemical under normal conditions requires a bombardment of artillery to be effective. The lone spray plane under normal conditions is a hit or miss deal due to wind currents.

The large scale bio has the same problems, in addition to the perpetrators being at danger. The suicide bomber variety in Israel is probably the most dangerous weapon that the terrorists can use until they get lucky as in 9/11. The biggest danger is not finding the small amounts of chem/bio that are small enough to have been carried out of the country but are not WMD's

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