Search for WMD in Iraq finally over.
Today, the U.N. Security Council voted (14-0, with Russia abstaining) to “immediately shut down the U.N. bodies key to monitoring Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs under Saddam Hussein — a decision an Iraqi diplomat said would close ‘an appalling chapter’ in his country’s history.”
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Clinton’s Fault!!!
June 29th, 2007 at 12:47 pmI’m sure they’re there…
-darth cheney
June 29th, 2007 at 12:48 pmIt’s an appalling chapter in US history as well.
Just look at what we’ve done…..
June 29th, 2007 at 12:49 pmMaybe if we just looked for another decade or so…
June 29th, 2007 at 12:49 pmWas this the “known-known” or the “known-unkowns”?
June 29th, 2007 at 12:49 pm*
June 29th, 2007 at 12:50 pm165,000 U.S. Troops were heard to say, “can we GO HOME now?”
*
Over before it started
June 29th, 2007 at 12:51 pmIsn’t it time for the mainstream to apologize to Michael Moore, Scott Ritter, Robert Scheer, Hanz Blix, etc. etc. etc.
How about the a-holes who booed Moore at the Oscars? Are they proud of themselves?
June 29th, 2007 at 12:51 pmSomebody tell Hannity and his butt buddies at Faux News that the search is over. And they didn’t find any.
But 41% of dumbfu*ks we live with still believe that Sadam was closely involved with 9/11.
Where would they get that idea? Where indeed.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:51 pmCut!
That’s a wrap. Show over. Done Diego. Go home. Now.
OTOH, Weapons of Mass Deception can be found in the media daily.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pm-I guess they weren’t looking for American Depleted Uranium.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pmI wish someone would close ‘an appalling chapter’ in OUR country’s history. Impeach them all.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:52 pmright now take in the medical supplies and food convoys
June 29th, 2007 at 12:53 pmSo the reason we invaded has been proven false (AGAIN). Bring our troops home. The invasion has proved to be a recruiting ground for insurgents. Heckuva job chimpy/shooter/rummy/condi. There is no credibility left in the WH…if they truly loved our country they would resign in disgrace and give someone competent a chance to rectify the situation. Chimpy sure as hell can’t.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:54 pmBREAKING:
Officials: No terror link in London bomb plot 11:19 AM CT
11:41 AM CDT on Friday, June 29, 2007
Associated Press
McVeigh-style home-grown “terrrrrists”.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:54 pmAli soon displayed his characteristic ruthlessness, ordering the indiscriminate use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas, sarin, tabun and VX against Kurdish targets. The first such attacks occurred as early as April 1987 and continued into 1988, culminating in the notorious attack on Halabja in which over 5,000 people were killed.
By 1988, some 4,000 villages had been destroyed, an estimated 180,000 Kurds had been killed and some 1.5 million had been deported.
He was nicknamed Chemical Ali (”Ali Kimyawi”) by the Kurds for his role in the campaign; according to Iraqi Kurdish sources, Ali Hassan openly boasted of this nickname.
I love WMDs they are my speciality.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:54 pm180,000 Kurds they took up too much space anyway.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:55 pmTold you so, U.N. Iraq arms inspectors’ report says
June 29th, 2007 at 12:55 pmNo matter. There will still be Santorums and others who will continue to insist that the WMD and he must have snuck them out under cover of darkness when no one was looking. You’ll see. 50 years from now, they will still insist that Saddam had the WMD.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:55 pmUS did not find any WMDs because I hid them under my bed. :D
Allah Akubar!!!!
June 29th, 2007 at 12:56 pmYep no WMD, but lots of Black-Gold OIL to steal.
June 29th, 2007 at 12:56 pm180000 Kurds who’s counting anyway?
June 29th, 2007 at 12:57 pm650,000 Iraqis, but who’s counting anyway?
June 29th, 2007 at 12:59 pmand now of course theres no Saddam
so get the f out of Iraq
1 million dead for nothing , somebody should be held accountable
June 29th, 2007 at 1:00 pmOf course, when you are looking for something, you always find it in the last place you look.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:06 pmBreaking:
June 29th, 2007 at 1:06 pmAdministration Officials to be hung in Central Park for lying the United States into an unnecessary invasion.
Crump’s Brother you are counting. 180,000 dead Kurds my muslim bro for Allah. I see you lost no sleep over our Kurdish pigs and monkeys.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:09 pmCrump’s Brother care for a little sarin gas with your latte?
June 29th, 2007 at 1:11 pmChemical Ali,
Who gave him those munitions? Who was President when that was going?
Who was it taht Saddam shook hands with back then? Oh yes, the Reagan Republicans.
Get over yourself.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:12 pmChemical Ali,
“Crump’s Brother care for a little sarin gas with your latte?”
Oooooh!!!! Should I run now or later.
Threats? I pity you.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:13 pmSearch for WMD in Iraq finally over
…and, the results were???????
June 29th, 2007 at 1:14 pmCrumps,
June 29th, 2007 at 1:15 pmyou and me together with your US military dollars we can continue in our work for Allah. I would have continued killing even if the US had not gone to war with my people. It’s how we do things over here. We control thru fear and death sorry that upsets you.
Well, looks like Saddam started a war and died all because of his Islamo-Arrogance.
Definitive Islamo-Fascism.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:16 pmWitch Hunt - Rush - 1981
The night is black, without a moon.
The air is thick and still.
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torch lit hill.
Features distorted in the flickering light,
Faces are twisted and grotesque.
Silent and stern in the sweltering night,
The mob moves like demons possessed.
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right,
Confident their ways are best.
The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will.
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill.
They say there are strangers who threaten us,
Our immigrants and infidels.
They say there is strangeness to danger us
In our theaters and bookstore shelves,
That those who know whats best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves.
Quick to judge,
June 29th, 2007 at 1:17 pmQuick to anger,
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand.
And you got that VX nerve gas from Ronald Reagan.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:18 pmChemical Ali,
“We control thru fear and death sorry that upsets you.”
Wow! Just like our President does! Congrats!!
June 29th, 2007 at 1:18 pmIn actuality, the search for weapons of mass deception was over in the mid-1990s. We just needed a coked up cowboy masquerading as a president to get the search going again. My guess is that each night before he says his prayers, little Georgie thanks “god” for making his dad sell the WMDs to Saddam in the first place so little Georgie had something to act like he was a tough guy. Isn’t the American body count up to 3,560 or so kids who have died in Iraqnam for this lie?
June 29th, 2007 at 1:19 pmArrogant because he was good friends of Ronald Reagan and Donald Rumsfeld. Arrogant because he was put into power by the US republicans.
Way to go.
And he was not involved in 9/11. Bush started this war. idiot.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:20 pmI love Rush. Dude I saw them in Montreal in 1975.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:20 pmThe Unknown
June 29th, 2007 at 1:20 pmAs we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.
Well glory be!! What the hell were we doing wasting our time and money searching for something which was NEVER there in the first place?
June 29th, 2007 at 1:21 pmAmerican body count up to 3,560 or so kids who have died in Iraqnam for this lie?
Comment by Ben Dover
kids? why do you send kids?
June 29th, 2007 at 1:22 pmWe loved Bubba as you called him. He let us alone. Great President and sax player too.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:25 pm#42. Ask the Chimp in Chief why we send kids. He’s the tough guy who started the illegal war.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:28 pmChemical Ali: “By 1988, some 4,000 villages had been destroyed, an estimated 180,000 Kurds had been killed and some 1.5 million had been deported.”
I think we’re discussing the year 2002 and whether or not there were WMD’s then. The answer is no, so the invasion of Iraq was staged under false pretenses. What is it about that that you don’t understand?
June 29th, 2007 at 1:31 pmI love you Americans so technical 1998? 2002? who cares if we kill our own.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:36 pmI am glad you see it my way Jack Ripper. Glad to see you are not offended by my gassing of the Kurds. They are not missed.
Col Jack Ripper what is a WMD? Is there a manual? I need to keep up on these things.How many people need to be terminated 10, 1000, 10,000, 100,000. Can I google it?
June 29th, 2007 at 1:39 pmthanks for your help
Ali
No weapons of mass destruction ay?
Didn’t Scott Ritter and the rest of the inspectors tell us that 5 years ago?
June 29th, 2007 at 1:49 pmthat was our mission over there, so let the troop pullout begin!
June 29th, 2007 at 1:51 pmHey Chemical Ali.
Berfore you talk about killing Americans, you might need some of the following items.
1. An intact modernized Army
2. Some WMD’s.
3. An intricate orbital targeting system
4. Long range ICBM’s capable of covering half the globe to reach us
5. A Navy capable of travelling beyond “brownwater”.
6. A long range Air Force
When you acquire all of these things, then give us a call.
Of course, since we have 100 times more of these things allready, and ours have had decades of enhancements and refinements and are technologically superior to anything you can come up with, we’ll blow you off the face of the planet, but hey, at least then we’ll have something to shoot at.
June 29th, 2007 at 1:54 pmQuestion.
How big of a snibbling coward, does an American have to be, to be afraid of a tiny country in the middle east with NO Navy, No long range Air Force, no modernized conventional Army, no Nukes, no method to deliver nukes even if they did have them, and no satellite targeting system even if they did have a method to deliver them?
How big?
June 29th, 2007 at 1:56 pmI bet that if you took a poll today at least 40% of those responding would say that they still believe that there’s WMDs in Iraq.
There was a recent poll (last week) in which over 40% of the respondents said that they believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11. How brainwashed are they?!
And I just found a recent (this past week) CNN poll in which 42% said that Yes-the US action in Iraq is “morally justified”! Morally justified?! Based on what?! What kind of drugs are these people taking?
http://i.a.cnn.net/ cnn/ 2007/ images/ 06/ 26/ rel7c.pdf
Iraq did NOT have any WMDs.
Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11.
The US had NO BUSINESS invading and occupying Iraq.
We are NOT SAFER as a result of US actions in the Middle East.
And the US is certainly NOT “morally” justified to be doing anything in Iraq!
Stop the killing!
June 29th, 2007 at 2:07 pmBARTLEBEE,
They’re not cowards, they’re war-mongering, opportunists a$$holes!
June 29th, 2007 at 2:09 pmNo matter what the UN says Americans will believe President Cheney who says the WMDs are in Iraq. He has proof as little Ricky Santorum has seen them with his Harry Potter wand. So that lie that was told to Americans by the White House will some day come true if you close your eyes, tap your heals and say I believe the Dickster I believe the Dickster. Yes Americans are again made to look stupid by following the lies and never asking questions. Now yes Bill Clinton will be at fault as he has lead us to 6 years of this mess. But Joe Wilson did try as the White House and the media spin the truth. Let’s thank Libby for his part in allowing thousands of our soldiers to die based on the White House lies. Americans would rather believe and follow the Liar-in-Chief President Dick Cheney then have the truth come out. Yes all the families who lost love ones in this invasion still praise the White House for a job well done and wish to continue the killings until the job is completed. More soldiers have to die because the dead soldiers have to have died for a reason. How many dead soldiers will be enough for the grieving families and the White House.
June 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pmParis Hilton found Jesus - that’s quite q stunt. Let her have a go at the WMD.
June 29th, 2007 at 2:37 pmsuprised America did not use its Veto power
does that mean I can import pistacio nutz from iraq now then and we can now send medical aid and food and damages money
June 29th, 2007 at 2:39 pm…oh, but they DID find a weapon of mass death in Iraq… And it was the real reason we went to war..
It’s called OIL!!!
June 29th, 2007 at 2:44 pmIs Chemical Ali also know on other blogs as “King of Zouk,?” he sure smells similar… nothing more than provocatuers and shady operatives, vying to get a pat on the head from the neocons…
I bet Ali brags about his ludicrous posts fo his friends…
Oh, and as for foreign-sounding names, is it true that “Tony Snow” translates in farsi to “Tariq Aziz?”
June 29th, 2007 at 3:19 pmWhile Bush was getting us bogged down in Iraq, he took his eye of the ball and let North Korea develop nuclear weapons.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:21 pmWhen you acquire all of these things, then give us a call.
Of course, since we have 100 times more of these things allready, and ours have had decades of enhancements and refinements and are technologically superior to anything you can come up with, we’ll blow you off the face of the planet, but hey, at least then we’ll have something to shoot at.
Comment by BARTLEBEE
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My muslim bros in Iran are already working on those things. Thanks for the encouragement. The Americans will be the first ones we test it on.
See you in the afterglow.
Allah Akbar and Death to America!
June 29th, 2007 at 4:29 pmWe have nukes in Iran now and you know we will use them on the great Satan.
Got Nukes?
June 29th, 2007 at 4:33 pmLet her have a go at the WMD.
Comment by TerrytheTurtle
Hahahaha!!! Good one.
So, no WMDs. No Saddam-9/11 connection. mmmmm… Thats me 2-0.
I say that US govt pull 9/11.
Who wants to bet I get to 3-0?
June 29th, 2007 at 4:34 pmI’m glad Americans do not consider 180,000 dead Kurd a
June 29th, 2007 at 4:41 pmWMD. Now just leave Irag so we can get to business of Allah.
We have a special sale on Oil this week too. Iraqi crude the best!
June 29th, 2007 at 4:43 pmHey Chemical Ali
Berfore you talk about killing Americans, you might need some of the following items…
Comment by BARTLEBEE
Aha Barkbeetle,
June 29th, 2007 at 5:18 pmWe do not think as good as you, but we are creative (9/11).
There are many ways to kill Americans. You borders are very open to us.
Maybe when you get your new Democratic President we will be back in business as usual. London is full of our people. You will submit to Allah.
We are not afraid of US. Death is Allah’s will for us. You do not understand.
Yes, US is full of snibbling cowards like yourself.
Shutting down the UN inspection teams is a BAD THING, since Bushco distributed tens of thousands of tons of dual-use high explosives, nuclear material (including cesium and strontium), munitions, and precision machine tools.
With the UN not there doing inspection — in whatever way is possible under US occupation — Bushco has an even freer hand in covering up their fomenting of civil war and terrorism thoughout the ME.
Given ThinkProgress’ lying slander of Aristide earlier in the week, I am not surprised that TP has done NO independent thinking on this issue, and is simply following the ‘outrage’ about wasted funding for UN teams — when Bushco’s illegal predation on Iraq has cost a trillion dollars and made the NEED for UN inspection higher than ever.
June 29th, 2007 at 5:50 pmI cannot believe that people are actually responding to the Chemical Ali troll.
Must be a slow news day.
Rightwingers pretending to be terrorists … no need to pretend any more. A million dead in Iraq, and more to come in Iran, if we don’t catch a break from a resurrected legal system.
June 29th, 2007 at 5:54 pmUN is irrelevant. Has been.
June 29th, 2007 at 5:56 pmA million dead in Iraq? Paul did you do the math or just round off to the nearest million?
June 29th, 2007 at 6:05 pmA million dead in Iraq? Paul did you do the math or just round off to the nearest million?
Comment by Flaco — June 29, 2007 @ 6:05 pm
I heard it was… a billion!
June 29th, 2007 at 8:05 pmGuess what they found?
NOTHING.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:36 pmUN is irrelevant. Has been.
Comment by Flaco — June 29, 2007 @ 5:56 pm
‘Cept of course when we wish to claim violations of UN decisions as justifications for interventions in place we do not belong
June 29th, 2007 at 10:00 pmA million dead in Iraq? Paul did you do the math or just round off to the nearest million?
Comment by Flaco — June 29, 2007 @ 6:05 pm
I heard it was… a billion!
Comment by Mr. President — June 29, 2007 @ 8:05 pm
What number of humans would you fellas find too many?
June 29th, 2007 at 10:01 pmFor those of you who want to read the whole story, Forbes has it:
U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the efforts of the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq “have demonstrated that the current government of Iraq does not possess any weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems.”
June 30th, 2007 at 1:26 amU.N. Closes Down Saddam Weapons Monitors