U.S. faces repercussions if weapons are not found

Newark (red)Star Ledger ^ | 4/16/03 | JOHN HASSELL

[Incorrigible]

The Newark (red)Star Ledger once again goes out of it's way to find the hand-wringers and give them a forum.  Another example of editorial as news.

Other examples:

Victory won't guarantee re-election -- Bush's popularity can be perishable

Symbol blurs the U.S. mission -- US flag on statue hinted at occupation, not liberation

 

[GingisK]

I'd be looking in Syria for Saddam's stuff.

[Just mythoughts]

Mr. Hassell might consider, if we have evidence that WMD's went to other countries, by his own standard it demands that we go to those countries and collect them.

[Diogenesis]

========= IRAQI MISSILES AND WMD =========

========= Chemical Warhead found in Kirkuk =============

Chemical warhead at an Iraqi air base, marked with a green band,
the symbol for chemical weaponry. Trace amounts of a nerve agent was found
in two spots on the ~meter long warhead. The amounts could be consistent with
leakage from a chemically armed weapon. A 13-foot missile was found next
to it.

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In Kerbala, found in a military training camp are
banned chemical agents similar to pesticides.
Initial investigations reveal sarin and tabun and the blister agent lewisite.
Non. Mais non? Could that be French on the containers?

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========= IRAQI MISSILES [So many missed by the Klowns) =========

In central Baghdad, Iraqi missiles are found everywhere.

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Near Baghdad, US military found and tows an Iraqi missile.

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Near Baghdad, at a weapons development facility, another Iraqi missile.

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In Baghdad, captured Iraqi Scud missiles at the the University of Baghdad.

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In and near Baghdad, more abandoned trailors loaded with Iraqi al-Samoud 2 missiles.

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In Kerbala, even more Iraqi missiles found.

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[3AngelaD]

And those repurcussions would be what? Islamic radicals wouldn't like us? We wouldn't get invited to France's birthday party? And my favorite: the President's credibility among American-hating university parasites would be reduced? Where does this bird-cage liner find such intellectual power?

[vin-one]

U.S. faces repercussions if weapons are not found

From whom.......

by the way what about all the other violations, Let's not forget those.
Let's also not forget the Irag people dancing in the streets.
This guy needed to go, and the U.S. was just the country to make it happen.....

[BlueLancer]

"This guy needed to go, and the U.S. was just the country to make it happen....."

We've got to take these bastards.
Now, we could fight 'em with conventional weapons,
But that could take years and cost millions of lives.
No, in this case, I think we have to go all out.
I think this situation absolutely requires
that a futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."
"And we're just the guys to do it."
(Courtesy of "Animal House")

[vin-one]

was it over when the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor,
NO,
Let's do it.

[JohnGalt]

You demonstrate the issue in your post.

The war began on conservative principals a year ago, but morphed into a war on Wilsonian principals.

[Kevin Curry]

"If we don't find fairly large stockpiles of these weapons, in quantities large enough to pose a strategic threat to the United States, then the president's credibility will be seriously undermined, and the legitimacy of the war repudiated," Cirincione said.

Only among those who already despise him and have no faith in the Iraqi operation. This is no loss.

Saddam had twelve years to hide his stuff deep. And it is already a matter of record that he ordered mass executions of the person who helped to hide it. We've bombed many of the rest. It will take time and painstaking effor to find the stuff--and a lot of it will never be found.

[Tallguy]

The ground forces still switching gears from combat operations, and all the media can do is b*tch. First is was about the looting. Now that the looting is beginning to subside, they are complaining about not having found WMD's.

Securing the WMD's is going to take more resources & more intel than are presently on hand. Even so, the frontline troops have discovered & sealed several promising sites.

Oh, and if some infantryman or tanker should come down with some symptoms akin to Gulf War Syndrome, these same reporters will be accusing the military brass of carelessness in not allowing the "experts" to come in to deal with these sites.

[browardchad]

A sure sign we are switching to the next phase of the war: "The WMD Quagmire."

It must be frustrating not to be able to work Vietnam in there somewhere....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I have to agree with the story's premise. We'd better find something more than missiles. It is interesting that they went to the trouble of burying entire MiG fighter planes...

[cloud8]

"From whom......."

Exactly what I wondered when I read the article's headline. Apparently the U.S. will face repercussions from Joseph Cirincione, author of "Deadly Arsenals," and from S. Azmat Hassan, a former Pakistani ambassador to Syria and Morocco. So what? Even the Euro-trash is coming around to admitting the war wasn't such a bad idea after all.

[apillar]

Total BS....

The American people are so happy to see that the war was won with a minimum loss of life and in such a short amount of time and that the Iraqi people are now free, that they won't care a whit if Chemical Weapons are found or not.

The only ones that will try to make hay over it are the anti-war liberals and the French, normal Americans don't give a darn about what they say anyway

[bobsatwork]

"We'd better find something more than missiles.."
Don't worry. We will. There was a remarkable breakfast meeting involving Tony Blair and most European leaders. It happened just after Powell gave his pitch to the UN, and everyone was talking about "did he make his case" on WMDs. At this meeting Blair said (this is a paraphrase) "Everyone in this room knows, from their own intelligence groups, that Saddam has these weapons". The room went silent.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"If we don't find fairly large stockpiles of these weapons, in quantities large enough to pose a strategic threat to the United States, then the president's credibility will be seriously undermined, and the legitimacy of the war repudiated," Cirincione said.

Harumph. Tell that to the Iraqis who were forced to watch their families tortured and killed. Think they give a fat rat's bladder about VX, Anthrax or R-400 aerial bombs?

[skeeter]

The media has been hurt by this war, and their looking for payback.

It won't matter how much evidence is found... unless US soldiers find a wharehouse full of barrels with DANGER: WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION stenciled on them the media will claim the war was waged for phony reasons.

[sr4402]

What part of FOUND WITH MORE EVIDENCE TO COME don't they understand.

Another liberal paper gets to EAT CROW

[templar]

I have to agree with the story's premise. We'd better find something more than missiles.

I tend to agree with you. We stressed WMD's way too much, IMO, as the reason to attack. Now we gotta produce them or we have credibility problems. The problem isn't so much that anyone could actually be a threat to our domestic or military security (they can't), even if the Islamic societies were smart enough to form a defensive alliance against us (which they aren't), it's the lack of cooperatiohn we may end up experiencing in the future on other matters vital to our economy and such. And, of course, Israel is a factor here somewhere, since we seem to think we can solve the Palestinian problem.