Posted on 03/17/2006 1:35:58 PM PST by johnny7
Doesn't the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee read? In a Washington Post article by Walter Pincus in Friday's edition, Representative Peter Hoekstra (news, bio, voting record), who has succeeded in pushing the Bush administration to start releasing some of the 2 million documents captured in Iraq, said,
“Whether Saddam Hussein destroyed Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or hid or transferred them, the most important thing is that we discover the truth of what was happening in the country prior to the war.”
Conservatives and war-backers have been howling for the release of all these documents because they believe--or hope--that they will contain a smoking-gun memo showing that Saddam had oodles of WMDs or was buddy-buddy with bin Laden. But so far, no soap. At least not from the first nine documents posted by the military. One actually shows that Iraqi intelligence in August 2002 was looking for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq. This suggests Zarqawi was not given office space in Baghdad by Saddam, which is what some war supporters practically have claimed.
Back to Hoekstra. He's suggesting that that wily ol' Saddam destroyed his WMDs or sent them to Syria minutes before the US invaded. But if Hoekstra had bothered to read either the report from David Kay or the one from Charles Duelfer--the two pro-war fellows who headed the postwar search for WMDs--he would know that both concluded there were no significant amounts of WMDs in Iraq before the war and that Iraq's WMDs program were moribund. So there was nothing to hide or destroy. But let's wish Hoekstra well as he looks at each and every one of the two million documents for killer evidence to support the discredited prewar case for war.
David Corn setting up more strawmen again I see.
Apparently he has read neither the Kay/Duelfer reports, nor the translated documents.
Willfull ignorance is the definition of being obtuse and Corn is the master of it.
Asides from the fact The Nation makes the NY times looks sensible
someone send Corn this link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597459/posts
Document: Afghani Taliban Consul Spoke of a Relationship Between Iraq and Bin Laden See Translation
9 out of two million
I haven't seen it, perhaps mr. corn can post the transcript....
Since the docs already show that, you're a little late CORN. And by the way, I refuse to take any guy with the last name CORN seriously.
I think Corn is doing a little 'whistling through the graveyard' here.
David Corn is a pathetic jerk. Crowing about 9 documents that are not a smoking gun when millions of them have been released and not looked at yet.
Yeah, 9 out of 2 million. That's a good sample.
Amazing how he does that with no lips.
Saddam and Sons defense team at work, LOL, lame Corn, very lame.
At the contrary one branch of the Iraqi intelligence has proof with pictures of Zarqawi that he was in Iraq before thw war and they asked a higher branch of the Iraqi inteligence to investigate. The higher branch of the Iraqi inteeligence service dismissed the findings of the lower branch very quickly because I believe they were told by the top command to do so, they do not want show the world that they connections with AL Qaeda but rather keep it secret affair.
Please see my translation of the document posted on the Pentagon/FMOS website that talks about this issue.
What, pray tell is a SIGNIFICANT amount of WMD. Five Pounds of weaponized ANTHRAX? 50 Artillary shells loaded with botccilism? One 5 kiloton nuclear warhead?
Has there ever been an acceptable amount of WMD where it can just be overlooked as meaningless?
So therefore an acceptable amount of WMD is a WEAPON of MASS DESTRUCTION that would KILL only an ACCEPTABLE amount of people?!
I hear his band sings some wicked songs too.
...and rat-like teeth.
It is absolutely amazing the way the Left is pulling against us in this war. I mean it's mind-boggling. Jackasses like Corn and Schumer and Pelosi are just the tip of the iceberg.
The New York Times and WaPo are openly pulling for more US dead. They are preaching and pushing for impeachment. They are close to insanity.
I think it was the last two elections. 2000 nearly made the Dems and MSM crazy, and when their lies were found out (Swiftboat, Rathergate, etc.) and Kerry went down in '04, they just lost it.
They really, really are insane.
He should team up with The Dixie Chick's.
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