Extra: The Great WMD Hunt

[newyorican]

The media knew they were there--but where are they?

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So with much of southern Iraq in the hands of coalition forces by the weekend after the opening of hostilities, reporters naturally started asking where the weapons were: "Bush administration officials were peppered yesterday with questions about why allied forces in Iraq have not found any of the chemical or biological weapons that were President Bush's central justification for forcibly disarming Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government," the Washington Post reported (3/23/03).

Miraculously, the answer seemed to come that Sunday night (3/23/03), when military officials told the media of a "chemical facility" found in the southern town of Najaf. "Bob, as you know, there's a lot of talk right now about a chemical cache that has been found at a chemical facility," MSNBC anchor Forrest Sawyer told White House correspondent Bob Kur. "I underscore, we do not know what the chemicals are, but it sure has gotten spread around fast."

It sure had. Over on Fox News Channel (3/23/03), the headline banners were already rolling: "HUGE CHEMICAL WEAPONS FACTORY FOUND IN SO IRAQ.... REPORTS: 30 IRAQIS SURRENDER AT CHEM WEAPONS PLANT.... COAL TROOPS HOLDING IRAQI IN CHARGE OF CHEM WEAPONS." The Jerusalem Post, whose embedded reporter helped break the story along with a Fox correspondent, announced in a front-page headline (3/24/03), "U.S. Troops Capture First Chemical Plant."

The next day (10/24/03), a Fox correspondent in Qatar quietly issued an update to the story: The "chemical weapons facility discovered by coalition forces did not appear to be an active chemical weapons facility." Further testing was required. In fact, U.S. officials had admitted that morning that the site contained no chemicals at all and had been abandoned long ago (Dow Jones wire, 3/24/03).

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http://www.fair.org/extra/0307/wmdhunt.html

[damnraddem]

1. It's because they're looking in the wrong place:

they should try looking in the U.S., instead.

[dixiechiken]

2. EXCELLENT review of our "liberal media's" bias ....

*cough, cough* :eyes:


(n/t)

[newyorican]

3. Headlines/Sound bites are almost always lies or misrepresentations...

while the fine print contains only semi-lies...

[dennis4868]

4. And guess who is in Iraq now!

David Kay.....i am convinced he was sent there by the Bushits to either plant the WMD or put together a fony case that there are WMD in Iraq. David Kay cannot be trusted (he was thrown off the UNSCUM team for unethical behavior and is a right wing hack) but I am sure he will come up with "evidence" of WMD and everyone but us will believe him, including the so called liberal media and the dems....sickening!