Saddam's Forgotten WMD Confession

NewsMax ^ | 10/11/03 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

The elite media continues to insist that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. attacked in March, citing the scant evidence of any actual weapons finds by U.S. arms inspector David Kay.

But if it's true that Saddam Hussein was actually innocent on the WMD charge, then why did he confess in 1998 that his country had amassed huge stockpiles of highly toxic weaponized poisons - along with the delivery systems to take them beyond Iraq's borders.

That's right - lost in the debate over why U.S. weapons inspectors have yet to uncover the Iraqi version of the Manhattan Project is this salient factoid: Not only did Saddam's regime admit to possessing thousands of tons of lethal chemical and biological agents - Baghdad gave a detailed inventory of their WMD arsenal to the United Nations.

This week's Weekly Standard revisits Baghdad's 1998 WMD mea culpa - complete with a laundry list of the frightening weapons that the press continues to suggest were a figment of the Bush administration's imagination.

Just before Iraq kicked out U.N. weapons inspectors in 1998, Saddam admitted he had:

• At least 3.9 tons of deadly VX nerve gas, along with 805 tons of precursor ingredients for the production of more VX.

• 4,000 tons of ingredients to produce other types of poison gas.

• 8,500 liters of anthrax.

• 500 bombs fitted with parachutes for the purpose of delivering poison gas or germ payloads.

• 550 artillery shells filled with mustard gas.

• 107,500 casings for chemical weapons. • 157 aerial bombs filled with germ agents.

• 25 missile warheads containing germ agents, including anthrax, aflatoxin, and botulinum.

Again, the above arsenal is NOT what U.S. or European intelligence said it suspected Baghdad had. These are the WMD's that Saddam himself admitted he had.

It's also worth noting that the overwhelming majority of the WMDs Saddam admitted he had went completely undetected by U.N. weapons inspectors who combed Iraq for 12 years.

Still, thanks to the media's five-month-long campaign to discredit the Iraq war - not to mention the horrible job done by the White House public relations team - most Americans have no idea that questions about whether Iraq was in recent possession of WMD's have already been answered - and answered by no less an authority than Saddam Hussein himself.

[Stallone]

The public relations team at the White House is not only pathetic, it is toxic.

The War on Socialists is still undeclared. What on earth are they waiting for - a Clinton presidency?

We need an immediate change in the public relations regime of the Bush presidency.

Naive Pubbies can pretend they are not at war with the Libs only so long. The parallels to the appeasement of Terrorists is not coincidental - both Socialists and radical Muslims despise America, envy its wealth and freedoms, and vow its demise.

The Rush Limbaugh attacks are only the tip of the iceberg, and illustrates the danger of letting the vermin 'Rats run free without retribution or retaliation.

When the Clintons were on the ropes with illegal pardons and theft of public property, the Bush team just wanted to move on. Congratulations, the cancer has metastasized, and spread to the body politic.

Big mistake, ye pious fools.

Go in for the kill. Now.

NEVER NEGOTIATE WITH EVIL. KILL IT.

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[secretagent]

Scott Ritter has an answer to this: all of the chemical and biological weapons listed above turned to goo before the invasion.

They all had shelf lives shorter than 5 years.

I don't know the proper rebuttal to this.

[JohnBovenmyer]

They all had shelf lives shorter than 5 years.

Aren't they still finding mustard gas in France from WWI?

[austingirl]

Well said. We are at war against the leftists who would socialize this country - at least we should be.

[Stallone]

Thanks Austin.

Agreed.

The Left is on the ropes after Arnold's monumental win in California.

Like Al Qaeda, they are reconstituting.

Do we finish them off, or do we wait for the next attack?

Warrior Freepers go in for the kill.

[StriperSniper]

Go in for the kill. Now.

I heard Mary Matalin on I think it was Hannity during the week saying that they are starting to get things revved up.

[Stallone]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Hillary?

[StriperSniper]

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Hillary?

I don't know if I'm following you, you mean keeping the powder dry until she announces?

If so, not until now. None of these clowns are really much to worry about. I liked the way Mary put it(paraphrase)- She compared it to a football game where it was halftime, the other team has been running all over the field, we have yet to suit-up, but we're still even. Not really too bad a positition to be in.

[secretagent]

Michael from [205.215.210.2] at 1:44pm ET Are there still lingering poisons from WWI in France?

Donovan Webster at 1:46pm ET Yes. In fact one of the guys I was with on a clean up crew while researching my book was gravely injured by mustard gas three weeks after I visited him. He picked up a World War I - era artillery shell that leaked mustard gas and burned his lungs severely inside and out. There are many anecdotes like this in my book Aftermath: The Remnants of War.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/chat_webster990615.html

[Mr. Silverback]

Tumbleweed_Connection

Good Album.

Bump.