The jury is still out on WMD in Iraq
By on Jun 11th, 2006 at 8:30 am
The jury is still out on WMD in Iraq
according to Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA). Weldon says he “knows of four sites…that have yet to be searched.”
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This country has really lost it. We are in a state of total fear, confusion, and denial. And the destructive forces ( the wingnuts and the cabal) are playing us like a harp. It is sad to watch but I’m beginning to think it just has to play out. Americans are asleep. Very very sad.
June 11th, 2006 at 8:44 amOur civilian and military leadership stated that they knew where the WMD was before the war. I would only give 3 days, not 3 years to find them. This is pure stupidity and playing to the base of faux news viewers and those that don’t even believe the words that have already come out of this administration. There were none. Saddam was a toothless dictator and we knew it well ahead of the war with all of the spy drones flying anywhere taking pictures. The photos shown to the UN were all lies. Only planted pieces could possibly show up now. On top of it all, the US has 14 permanent bases (4 very large military installations), and is building an embassy nearly the size of the Vatican, the US and Britan is making a puppet state of Iraq.
According to international criminal law and the execution of those at Nuremburg, anyone of any country that engages in an offensive war without provication for their own gain should be hanging at the end of a noose. It’s that simple and yes, that is where many of Britan and US leaders should be headed including Bush and Blair.
June 11th, 2006 at 9:23 amI love the timing of this “announcement”… We knock off the “head” of AQ in Iraq and suddenly the old WMD paper tiger is back. If these supposed sites haven’t been searched after all these years, either the administration and military leadership is completely inept, or Curt Weldon (R-Ridiculous) is blowing smoke – or both.
June 11th, 2006 at 9:27 amWell then, Mr.Weldon, why don’t you get your ASS over there TODAY, and get them? And why are you just telling us all of this now? How long have you known? Well???
June 11th, 2006 at 9:34 amThis is a pathetic statement from the worst Congress in US history. The Senate is worse yet and the Administration, along with those in the Pentagon that created this war of agression for their own gain should be hanging from the end of a noose, along with their co-conspirators in Britan for a war of agression without provication only to gain access and control of middle eastern oil. It was that simple at the trial in Nuremberg after WW II and is that simple for acts of aggression performed by Britan and our leadership today.
Our leadership as well as Britan’s are criminal amoral sociopaths that deserve nothing less. Ignorance (or the pretense of), is no excuse. When there is a next time, the people that are resposible to wage war should be damn sure that the US is truly under imminent attack. A toothless dictator with no weapons was never an imminent threat.
June 11th, 2006 at 9:36 amLet me guess…are the four sites the super-fortress bases we are building in Iraq?
Now, how do you think it would look in the world’s eyes, if, all of a sudden, after 3 years of occupation and just before an election in the United States…BUSH WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL: WE FIND THE WMDs!!!
coincidence?
June 11th, 2006 at 9:36 amCurt’s got the duplicate key to the Ward Room, and he KNOWS who stole the strawberries!
June 11th, 2006 at 9:39 amIf there are four sites theye’ve not inspected, why haven’t they been inspected? Who is preventing us from inspecting them, Haliburton?
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June 11th, 2006 at 9:39 amIraq was an open door as a result of their noncompliance with the terms of surrender from the 1st gulf war. Wether you like it or not Saddam himself said he had WMDs and he played stupid games to ty to stay strong man on the block, games that invited an attack from US.
S, Ameicans are not asleep you simply hear what you want to hear. Many credible sources have indicated that the WMD were removed from the country shortly before the invasion.
June 11th, 2006 at 9:40 am#9 – yawn. As #8 asked – if these sites were known, why weren’t they inspected? Surely that would be a priority, wouldn’t it? (I mean, if you’re chasing bad guys, you’d want to capture them AND any source of weapons, eh?) Bad troll – go back under your bridge.
June 11th, 2006 at 9:49 amIf Bush and Blair were indeed guilty of war crimes dont you think the international community would be addressing this? Or is the whole world blind except for Libs in the US and Saddam who makes the same moronic claims as you?
June 11th, 2006 at 9:52 am#9-”…you simply hear what you want to hear.” So speaks the voice of experience, yes? Please stop laying your own processes on others. If you weren’t so ashamed of believing all of the lies they continue to tell you, you wouldn’t have the need to denigrate those who have accepted the truth. Your ignorance is your choice, and you can choose to change. Or not, it’s up to you.
June 11th, 2006 at 9:52 amIf this lap dog knew of the location of “the WMD’s” he should have spoken up. He’s part of the cabal and surely a traitor for his complacency. Hang ‘em high!
June 11th, 2006 at 9:53 amWMD afterall huh? can anyone say “October Surprise”. Perhaps the blogosphere should prempt this “news” so we can all see how predictable the GOP clowns really are.
June 11th, 2006 at 10:06 amIf any WMD is found in Iraq it would have a made in America sticker or identification on it! Bush and Cheney wanted the CIA to ship over WMD to Iraq, but the agency refused > even Porter Goss refused to do it which implies another reason for his resignation, and General Hayden replacing him! US forces have had ample opportunity to completely check Iraq for authentic WMD, so any found now would be bogus > PERIOD.
June 11th, 2006 at 10:20 amEveryone knows the’re North, South, East and West. Right.
June 11th, 2006 at 10:42 amSaddam has said on numerous occasions that he did not have WMDs. Why don’t you believe that?
June 11th, 2006 at 10:51 amWhat credible sources?
June 11th, 2006 at 10:53 amAfter three years, I’d be inclined to think that any putative WMD found by this time is just as likely (if not even more so) to have been planted there covertly by US forces in an attempt to justify their own activities as by Saddam Hussein. And if (most likely when) no WMD are found at those four sites, what will they say then…hmmm?
Puh-leeeeeeeeze…we all know what they’ll say — that the WMD must be in Syria. The neoconservatives can no more accept the possibility that the WMD might never have existed anywhere outside the machinations of people like the infamous “Curveball” any more than the Roman Catholic Church in Galileo’s time was capable of accepting the idea that the earth revolved around the sun. After all, this would mean that there were — *gasp!* — WRONG! It’s too threatening to their beliefs regarding how the world should be — and they’d rather cling to that then accept the truth and admit that they were wrong. It’s sad, really…
June 11th, 2006 at 10:54 amWeldon says he “knows of four sites…that have yet to be searched.â€
Good luck with that … your perceived sanity and reputation is on the line.
June 11th, 2006 at 10:58 amWill the right ever let this go? There’s no nukes in Iraq, got it? Everbody has acknowledges this. Even W. Wow Curt, maybe you can go over there and check ‘em out? You’re dispensible enough that we wouldn’t care when you get blown into tiny little fragments by an IED.
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What credible sources?
Comment by Nat
Ann Coulter
June 11th, 2006 at 11:02 amS, Ameicans are not asleep you simply hear what you want to hear. Many credible sources have indicated that the WMD were removed from the country shortly before the invasion.
Comment by troll
No Ann Coulter is not a credible source… neither is challiby … neither is any other paid iraqi “informer”.
Did Saddam EVER have WMDs? Yep. But no one gives a rats ass if Saddam had mustard gas, nerve gas, or anything like that. Unless Saddam can mount an amphibious attack on our shores here in America then those WMDs are as dangerous as a kleenex. The ONLY thing we cared about was mushroom clouds because that is the ONLY WMD that could be used AS a WMD if snuck into the USA…. all the other stuff is ONLY effective if you can roll in with a bunch of ships, planes, artillary, etc …. ONE nerve gas bomb doesnt do much … one nuke does…. YOU LOSE TROLL.
June 11th, 2006 at 11:07 amhttp://www.lcoliberal.blogspot.com
The truth about the death of al-Zarqawi. He was murdered by bloodthirsty U.S. soldiers.
Well you cant really blame them can you? This guy has made it so the soldier seen many of their own die… it is not like Zarqawi was a innocent child or mother… not that it would be better to get info out of him, but I wouldnt be blaming any blood thristy soldiers…. thats like saying they ordered themselves to go to Iraq so they could satisfy their bloodthirstyness …. they would just as willingly rolled into Saudi Arabia if ordered.
June 11th, 2006 at 11:09 am#23 – Hahaha – Yup, I agree. Ann represents the incredible intelectual capacity of this administration. I believe her books should be required reading. As a matter of fact, perhaps she and Curt could show us personally where these WMDs are. Oh, and while they’re at it – perhaps they could take in a latte at a local Baghdad cafe to show us all how much progress the country has made – shops open, etc, etc. (Of course, while Ann is there, she can spread her inspirational message about muslims – I am sure they’d love to hear about her thoughts)
/sarcasm off.
June 11th, 2006 at 11:12 amWhat you are saying is that the United States, in a preemptive war to get rid of the WMD’s, attacked the wrong country!
June 11th, 2006 at 11:37 amWar crimes tribunal of WW II were nothing but a continuation of the colonial empires of WW I which went to war to stop Germany and Austria-Hungary from gaining access to oil. The goal was to stop the Berlin to Baghdad as the world had just changed to oil. Germany and Austria-Hungary did not have any oil rich colonial states. The assasination of Prince Ferdinand was nothing more than an excuse to hide the real reason for war. The first thing that the colonial empires did was to protect their oil rich “possessions”. Too bad that this information is rarely, if ever covered by most history books or MSM “documentaries”. The world court in the Hague is little more than a joke that has no ability to enforce anything but misinformation. Europe was more than happy to see the break up of Yugoslavia into ethinc rivalries. I wonder how it all started?
People should remember that Saddam was America’s puppet until we decided otherwise. Gulf War I was pure BS as there was never the threat of Iraq military on the Saudi border and the US gave the green light to take Kuwait, an oil puppet of the UK. Why is it that where ever there are problems in the middle east, the UK had a hand in creating it during the end of their colonial empire?
June 11th, 2006 at 12:22 pmThe perfect setup.
June 11th, 2006 at 12:32 pmThis should allow time for the planting.
Then they’ll at last find the weapons that junior lost under his desk and prove to themselves that the invasion was ‘justified’.
Oh yes, they do create their own reality.
I’m glad the moron is saying idiotic things publically. He has just given the PA voters another reason not to vote for a republican.
Good job Curt, keep up the we are the mental party persona.
June 11th, 2006 at 12:40 pmPardon me for saying what so many others have said already: But if there are sites that have not been checked….
WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY WAITING FOR??????
Lying bastards.
June 11th, 2006 at 12:43 pmTo be fair, there have been problems in the middle east for thousands of years. Read up on ancient history and you’ll see that the current warfare is nothing new. What is new is the type of weapons both sides have access to as well as the arbitrary borders drawn up after WWII. Borders were much more fluid before then, and the nomadic tribes were not tied to wherever the oil was.
June 11th, 2006 at 12:46 pm1. Crawford Texas…..
2. Dick Cheney’s undisclosed location
3. Kenniebunkport Maine
4. 10 Downing Street
June 11th, 2006 at 1:42 pmOf course! Haven’t you heard? They’re in the area around Baghdad. North, south, east and west somewhat.
They get to say these things unchallenged because we are living in the age of greatest propaganda.
We are literally under attack from our own institutions and “elected” “representatives”.
June 11th, 2006 at 2:13 pmWho’s to say that Saddam didn’t bury his WMDs out in the desert somewhere? I won’t. Do I believe that to be the case? No, not really. Is it possible? Sure is. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. However, the absence of evidence is pretty meaningless.
In other words, just stick to the truth: there have been no WMD stocks found in Iraq up until this point.
June 11th, 2006 at 2:24 pmUnreal. Let me guess – Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia are the four sites where Iraqi WMD have been hidden. Republicans have become the most dangerous WMD on the planet.
June 11th, 2006 at 2:24 pmOn a related note, tractor production is up 300% for the year …
June 11th, 2006 at 3:45 pmMany credible sources have indicated that the WMD were removed from the country shortly before the invasion.
Comment by troll — June 11, 2006 @ 9:40 am
Thanks to satellite technology, I can go to any of several Web sites and within minutes zoom in on my uncle’s house in a tiny community called Skeetrock, which is located near Clintwood, VA.
As for satellite resolution as of an article on space.com from 1999:
According to an estimate by the private Federation of American Scientists (FAS), three satellites operated by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) have resolutions as sharp as 10 centimeters (3.93 inches) — in other words, the satellites can discern a softball-sized object from several hundred miles away. No doubt we can track activity via satellite in real time, day or night.
Now tell me…if we knew where the weapons were, as Dumsfeld has told us, yet Saddam had moved them out of Iraq, and did so by truck, why couldn’t we track them? Even if Bush said that we had tracked movement of “suspected” WMD’s across the border into (fill in the country), it would have been something.
June 11th, 2006 at 5:43 pmThis is an attack on the CIA in general and Duelfer in particular. What he’s saying is that the report filed on September 30, 2004, is wrong. He’s also saying that he found better intelligence than the guys on the ground did.
I’m all for it. He should prove them wrong, and then demand their heads.
Alternatively, if he can’t prove them wrong he should apologize for having impugned the reputations of brave people who searched Iraq for WMDs and came up empty, and then resign.
June 11th, 2006 at 6:06 pmWell, I can’t say I am impressed with the Duelfer report myself. They concluded that the trailers found in Iraq were exclusively for the production of hydrogen. That’s a bit odd when Iraq imported 17 commercially produced hydrogen generators that outclassed the setup they were supposedly creating in those trailers between January 2000 and the end of 2002. Did that fact make its way into the Duelfer report? Of course not. Which makes me very suspicious of its findings.
June 11th, 2006 at 6:13 pm“Weldon knows of four sites…that have yet to be searched.â€
The Moon, Mars, Mercury and Venus.
June 11th, 2006 at 9:41 pmHow many experts do you require before you believe them? Dueffler was a special Bush appointee and even he came back with the same assessment as every one else from Ritter to Blix, to El Baradai, and so forth.
June 11th, 2006 at 9:42 pmThan you, Weldon for be such a concerned guy and a palladin for US security. Get yourself a shovel and start digging the desert and let us know when can we stop pissing our trousers. Idiot.
June 11th, 2006 at 10:02 pmWeldon, I know everybody is making fun of you. Dont worry, when Bush administration hit the 20% or less in the opinion poll, you are going to find the WMDs in Iraq, Osama will be captured or found “dead”, and, after 2500 killed american soldiers, you are going to say with a big smile “mission accomplished”.
June 11th, 2006 at 10:14 pm#27
Comment by Just plain mad
June 11th, 2006 at 10:22 pmExactly. Just like any other war.
Stopping communism in Latinamerica was the “reason” for the military governments to step up, killing and torturing thousands. The real reason: privatizing industries and generating debt to the IMF.
Remember the Maine.
June 12th, 2006 at 9:58 am“creating reality”…
…a continued Republiscum/Bushite trademark…
…since the Reagan revoltution…
June 12th, 2006 at 10:19 amIf Saddam had no WMDs then why did it take him so long to allow the weapons inspectors back in? Clearly, according to liberals, he had nothing to hide, so why not let them in? Its obvious to me and most of America that the WMDs were moved to another country. The military has its reasons for not releasing this information. But keep pretending there were WMDs and we will laugh all the way as Republicans pick up even more seats in congress this fall. This is an issue that you cannot win on by being a pacificist!
June 12th, 2006 at 3:03 pmThese four sites wouldn’t happen to be east, west, south and north somewhat in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad, would they?
June 12th, 2006 at 3:09 pmWell, looks like we got some declassified info saying that they found WMD’s in Iraq. Over 500…What do you whiny libs have to say now?
June 21st, 2006 at 8:14 pm