WMD Hunt

[PornoDoggy]

I get a news email daily from military.com ... they lead off with this article today.

Military Hunt For Weapons Slows
Associated Press
June 10, 2003

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. military units assigned to track down Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have run out of places to look and are getting time off or being assigned to other duties, even as pressure mounts on President Bush to explain why no banned arms have been found.

After nearly three months of fruitless searches, weapons hunters say they are now waiting for a large team of Pentagon intelligence experts to take over the effort, relying more on leads from interviews and documents.

"It doesn't appear there are any more targets at this time," said Lt. Col. Keith Harrington, whose team has been cut by more than 30 percent. "We're hanging around with no missions in the foreseeable future."

Over the past week, his and several other teams have been taken off assignment completely. Rather than visit suspected weapons sites, they are brushing up on target practice and catching up on letters home.

[Torone]

For anyone who cares to try, I'll write my nick on a bag of sugar, hide it on one of my trips around Texas, and let them search for it...about the same as trying to find a quantity of botulinus toxin sufficient to depopulate this entire country in Iraq.

[Almighty Colin]

Looking less likely that they will find them every day.

[sarettah]

"Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past."

George W. Bush
Cincinnati, Ohio Speech
October 7, 2002
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Well, if you have the satellite photos, you should be able to find the facilities..duh..

Hint: latitude and longitude usually are in the lower right hand corner. Latitude is a parallel like the equator measured noreth and south and longitude is a meridian measured east and west......

[sarettah]

Originally posted by Torone@Jun 10 2003, 06:38 PM
For anyone who cares to try, I'll write my nick on a bag of sugar, hide it on one of my trips around Texas, and let them search for it...about the same as trying to find a quantity of botulinus toxin sufficient to depopulate this entire country in Iraq.

"We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

George W. Bush
Cincinnati, Ohio Speech
October 7, 2002
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Ok Torone, but try that with thousands of tons of sugar and I bet you I could find it

[PornoDoggy]

sarettah, don't cloud the issue with relevant facts.

Where is Al Hague when you need him. "References to WMD are now inoperative. We take you now to eeeeeeeee-villlllllllll dicktater ... "

[Torone]

Speaking of relevant facts, what about the three Iraqi ships that are (I assume) still station-keeping in the middle of nowhere?

[JR]

We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

we know this because these things were either declared to previous weapons inspectors and/or UN or they were discovered by UN weapons inspectors.

[Torone]

What is scary is that literally everyone knows that Husein HAD WMD's. He admitted it. He used them against Iran and the Kurds. Put aside the Dem/Lib/CP propaganda and wonder instead...Who the HELL has them or knows where they are? Is the proof going to be a mushroom cloud or a depopulated city?

For that matter, why does no one remember that WMD's were not the only reason we struck Iraq? Information out of other inimical countries seems to support the ties between Hussein and terrorism. Are Liberal memories so short that 9/11 is back to being just an emergency number? Or is it a matter of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'?

BTW, your favorite news source, the Communist News Network, reported that Iraq fired a missile at our headquarters in Kuwait some time before we started our attack. That would mean that he fired first...

[Torone]

Originally posted by JR@Jun 11 2003, 04:45 AM

we know this because these things were either declared to previous weapons inspectors and/or UN or they were discovered by UN weapons inspectors.

And so Bush is supposed to take the rap for the UN...

[Almighty Colin]

Sarettah,

One thing's for sure. Satellite technology and data analysis will go through another round of huge improvements after this.

[Almighty Colin]

Bush and many of us may have been wrong about Saddam having WMDs. Saddam may have pulled his final deception. Then again, he's still out there somewhere. So is Osama. "America's Most Wanted" list is hot at the top. The life of these two men could be a further huge influence on American politics. Imagine Osama or Saddam pulling off a terrorist or coupist caper on the eve of election night or imagine Osama or Saddam being caught on the eve of election night.

[JR]

Originally posted by Torone@Jun 11 2003, 01:49 AM

And so Bush is supposed to take the rap for the UN...

no... i think Bush is supposed to take the rap for this because instead of pointing out repeatedly what Saddam had... he just chanted again and again "Saddam MUST dissarm". the general tone and suggestion in almost every speach Bush made was about "dissarming Saddam Hussein". Saddam refused to cooperate and he was attacked.

its not unreasonable after a war for people to expect results and to expect to see "dissarmorment".

I think it is unreasonable for people to overlook the known facts, chronology and history of weapons inspectors in Iraq, Iraqs declarations, Iraqs deception, Iraqs use of chemical weapons and the known inventories of weapons unaccounted for for 12 years and try to make the case (more appropriately - imply) that there NEVER was anything there. thats crazy.

he had lots of shit.
he hid lots of shit
he used lots of shit
he killed lots of people with his shit
lots of his shit was discovered by weapons inspectors that was shit he said he did not have.
he had lots of shit that he refused to account for - even in his final declaration following 1441.

but hey, thats just politics.

Hillary says she was shocked, surprised and hurt that Bill cheated on her with Monica - what else can she say? she wants to be the next President of the USA.

its all politics.

the best bullshitter wins.





Last edited by JR at Jun 11 2003, 02:13 AM

[JR]

Originally posted by Torone@Jun 11 2003, 01:49 AM

And so Bush is supposed to take the rap for the UN...

and futher... the UN did not decide to attack Iraq. Bush did. "Coalition" or not - it happened outside of the law. its not unreasonable for the world to ask him to be accountable for the results.

[Torone]

Jr,

[Torone]

Originally posted by JR+Jun 11 2003, 05:15 AM-->