Warner: New Report Backs Iraq WMD Claims

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - An upcoming report will contain "a good deal of new information" backing up the Bush administration's contention that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) pursued weapons of mass destruction, Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites) Chairman John Warner, R-Va., said Tuesday.

The administration cited Saddam's hunger for such weapons as a main reason to invade Iraq (news - web sites) last year.

"I'm not suggesting dramatic discoveries," Warner told reporters, but "bits and pieces that Saddam Hussein was clearly defying" international restrictions, "and he and his government had a continuing interest in maintaining the potential to shift to production of various types of weapons of mass destruction in a short period of time."

The report is by the civilian head of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, who reports to the CIA (news - web sites) director. Initially the report was expected to be done this summer, but instead it will come out in September, Warner said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040720/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_weapons

[bobbieinok]

1. Bushco didn't say 'pursued'..... they said 'had and ready to fire at US'

[Ravy]

10. Ready to deploy on 45 minute notice, as I remember... (n/t)

[MidwestTransplant]

20. Oh those Iraqis work fast. They can start from scratch and have

a deployable WMD capable of striking NY on a UAV in only 45 mins.

Amazing.

[lazarus]

2. "bits and pieces"?

"the potential to shift to production of various types of weapons of mass destruction"?

Some claims about Iraq and 9/11 (by no means complete)

From Bush’s State of the Union address 01/28/03:

26,000 litres of anthrax
38,000 litres of botulinum toxin
500 tons of Sarin, mustard, & VX gas
30,000 munitions for delivery of above
mobile biological weapons labs
Iraq aids and protects al Qaeda
fleet of planes capable of dispersing chemical weapons almost anywhere in the world
sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa

From a speech to the nation, 10/07/02:

Iraq is rebuilding nuclear facilities

From a press conference 07/14/03:

Iraq refused to allow inspectors in

VP Dick Cheney, on Meet the Press 03/16/03:

“We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

[shockingelk]

40. Kibbles 'n Bits 'n Pieces? n/t

[Justice]

3. This Is Just More Crap

"The administration cited Saddam's hunger for such weapons as a main reason to invade Iraq"

No, the adminstration cited Saddam being an immediate threat to the safety of the US as THE reason to invade Iraq.

[Cha]

8. john warner is fulla CRAP!

How dare he insult our intelligence?!!

[lucky777]

4. Here we go -- 'bits and pieces,' 'had a continuing interest,'

watch for more wiggle-tactics. These people can muddle any waters, they're unbelievable and relentless.

[hansolsen]

5. If Warner had served in 1804 instead of 2004, he would have been called

out on a duel by now. There is no honor left in the man. He couldn't spell the word.

[goclark]

9. Warner is a Neo Con ASS

He is too old to be this mean!
Remember when he married Liz Taylor?
That is a blast from the past!

[tlcandie]

6. How many ways can you dress up a pig?

I'm about to give up here! I never knew there were so many ways to lie!

[Birthmark]

7. Warner: "I'm a disingenuous liar."

Hey, it would have been just as accurate and much briefer.

[Terran]

11. Oh puhleaze!

Hussein "had an interest" in having "the potential" to have WMD's. That's a hell of a long way off from mushroom clouds over America.

[asjr]

12. Hussein's "hunger" and what was actually

on the table are two different things. I think they upped the October surprise to July.

[librechik]

13. They're gettin on my last nerve!

fer gawds sake--just drop it! Nobody's buyin it! GO AWAY!!!!!

[grytpype]

14. The administration cited Saddam's hunger ??????

Ah, no actually, the Bushists said he HAD weapons and was about to USE them!

[sundancekid]

15. no matter how you stir a cowpie, it's still bulls*it and it still stinks!

Sure does give us that continuing conviction that when this pResident also wears no clothes, their kool-aid gets an extra dose of desperation-hits-new-gutter-lows flavoring!!!!
:puke:

[Ms. Clio]

16. a continuing interest in maintaining the potential to shift to production

What the bloody fuck???

[Hell Hath No Fury]

17. Iraq Survey Group...

...the Rummy intel group formerly known as the Office of Special Plans.

Now you KNOW it's shit!

[lancdem]

18. This is a terribly misleading headline

Bush said Saddam had WMDS, not that he was pursuing them. My, how they've lowered the bar.

[Matilda]

19. If I have an engine and a steering wheel, it doesn't mean I have a car.

Too little, too late.

[lovuian]

21. Oh PLEASE!!! Repubs are so Desperate!!! Just cause ya Want

WMD doesn't mean ya have them

and we had a preemptive strike on a country who wanted WMD well I can kinda realize WHY!!!

Cause we were going to blow them apart

:argh:

[lovuian]

22. Oh PLEASE!!! Repubs are so Desperate!!! Just cause ya Want

WMD doesn't mean ya have them

and we had a preemptive strike on a country who wanted WMD well I can kinda realize WHY!!!

Cause we were going to blow them apart

:argh:

[Cheneys_former_heart]

23. Yeah, and I have the hunger and desire for 1 billion dollars

But somehow I don't think I will be able to produce 1 billion dollars, no matter how much I hunger and desire for it. Sheesh.

[rocktivity]

24. Nice try

but "pursuing" WMDs is a long way from "possessing" them AND "being able to strike the U.S. with them within 45 minutes". THAT was your original story, remember?

:headbang:
rocknation

[FlashHarry]

25. Iran HAS wmd. North Korea HAS wmd. Iraq "hungered" for wmd?

Oh, but wait--Iraq didn't have much of an army. Iran and North Korea do. And the buried news flash is, Iran may have helped the 9/11 perpetrators--no evidence that Iraq did. So... by ChimpCo's standards, WE INVADED THE WRONG COUNTRY!!!

[Career Prole]

26. "The administration cited Saddam's hunger for such weapons

as a main reason to invade Iraq last year."
Bull. The "main reason" given by this administration wouldn't have left Saddam hungry for WMD because according to bushco's "main reason" for the invasion Saddam had a veritable smorgasbord of WMD to feast upon within arm's reach.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

27. Oh, bullshit, Warner. Blow it out your NeoCon a__.

[whistle]

28. ReThuglican blue smoke, chatter and disinformation...

:wtf:

[Lostnote03]

29. Party Above Country 24/7......

.........I wonder what Liz Taylor had to say to ole gentleman John as the door was about to hit his arse on the way out the door......

[MasonJar]

30. All DU Virginians need to bombard Warner with phone calls and

e-mails. All of this propaganda is out there for the sheeple.

[leesa]

31. More BS.

[Disturbed]

33. That headline got me.

Then I read the bullhshit! Man these Right Wingers know how to talk crap. Unfortunately, there are millions of ignorant &/or stupid people that lap this crap up. Any Dems who feel that this election is in the bag for them better not feel too complacent. The Shitstorm of the RW assult is just starting.

[Kool Kitty]

32. And the spinning begins...

[The_Casual_Observer]

34. hunger for such weapons as a main reason to invade Iraq

Oh, you what? I don't think this is true!:+

[daleo]

35. Finally, a real War Against Hunger

"The administration cited Saddam's hunger for such weapons as a main reason to invade Iraq (news - web sites) last year."

Not quite what humanitarians had in mind, when they coined the phrase, though.

[ilovenicepeople]

36. We could get other countries to help

in the WAR AGAINST HUNGER.The Coalition of the Filling! Howdy:hi:

[Disturbed]

37. Thanks

Ya made me ;)

[Ouabache]

38. Warner probably never noticed Elizabeth Taylor was a fat pig

when he married her. Why would he notice Bush lied?

[stickdog]

39. New Fibs 'Back' Old Whoppers! (nt)