Report: Iraq's Arsenal Was Only on Paper

[Danieljay]

Just appeared on yahoo latest news..if this isn't latest breaking, accept my apologies and move to the appropiate forum. This is a very long article...but interesting none the less.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=1802&e=1&u=/washpost/20040107/ts_washpost/a60340_2004jan6

snip

"But investigators have found no support for the two main fears expressed in London and Washington before the war: that Iraq had a hidden arsenal of old weapons and built advanced programs for new ones. In public statements and unauthorized interviews, investigators said they have discovered no work on former germ-warfare agents such as anthrax bacteria, and no work on a new designer pathogen -- combining pox virus and snake venom -- that led U.S. scientists on a highly classified hunt for several months. The investigators assess that Iraq did not, as charged in London and Washington, resume production of its most lethal nerve agent, VX, or learn to make it last longer in storage. And they have found the former nuclear weapons program, described as a "grave and gathering danger" by President Bush (news - web sites) and a "mortal threat" by Vice President Cheney, in much the same shattered state left by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s."

mongo snips!

"Saddam Hussein ordered this work, but where would we get the materials?" said an Iraqi general who declined to be named and who kept close tabs on Tamimi's missile designs. "This was the case in every field. People would prepare reports under the order of Saddam Hussein and the supervision of the people around Saddam Hussein. But it was not real."

[killbotfactory]

1. Oops...

Our bad.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

2. I'm confused...

I thought we were there to pillage oil... I mean, liberate the Iraqi people. That WMD hunt is SO 2 months ago, or at least that's what my TV tells me.

[fjc]

3. They had nothing, not a thing.

I wonder what Dean will say about this?

[cspiguy]

4. be nice if his death-camps were, too.

(couldn't help it - too many relatives from there)

[fjc]

5. The really sad thing is...

this county had known about the character of that regime for decades. Only now, after the collapse of the WMD scare, do we give that as a reason for doing him in.

[underpants]

6. Link to the doodles

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I60726-2004Jan06L

[Danieljay]

7. now THAT made me laugh

thanks..I truly needed a good laugh this morning.

[fjc]

8. Actually

those were drawings left behind from a briefing of GWya.

[Moderator]

9. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on the Washington Post story, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=301913

Thanks!

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