The hunt for weapons of mass destruction yields - nothing

[Judi Lynn]

The hunt for weapons of mass destruction yields - nothing

Intelligence claims of huge Iraqi stockpiles were wrong, says report

Julian Borger in Washington, Ewen MacAskill and Patrick Wintour
Thursday September 25, 2003
The Guardian

An intensive six-month search of Iraq for weapons of mass destruction has failed to discover a single trace of an illegal arsenal, according to accounts of a report circulating in Washington and London.

The interim report, compiled by the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group (ISG) of 1,400 weapons experts and support staff, will instead focus on Saddam Hussein's capacity and intentions to build banned weapons.

A draft of the report has been sent to the White House, the Pentagon and Downing Street, a US intelligence source said. It has caused such disappointment that there is now a debate over whether it should be released to Congress over the next fortnight, as had been widely expected.

"It will mainly be an accounting of programmes and dual-use technologies," said one US intelligence source. "It demonstrates that the main judgments of the national intelligence estimate (NIE) in October 2002, that Saddam had hundreds of tonnes of chemical and biological agents ready, are false." (snip/...)

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1049257,00.html

[Robin Hood]

1. How much did that briliant piece of literature cost to make?

Hell, The whole world was telling Bush Co. that.. Err.. I mean the world focus group could of/did tell Bush Co.

[xchrom]

2. tread very carefully here

david kay is certainly capable of falsifying the record. he is a rabid neo-con dog. extremely anxious to do his ownwers bidding.
i really suspect a last minute ''surprise find".
we have to be ready for that.

[emad]

6. Sure... They've yet to trawl the Shatt al Arab seabed bottom

all the way down to the Straits of Hormuz incase there's anything that got flushed down the pan and ended up downstream in the Arabian Gulf. Hope those UAE condominum entrepreneurs have insured themselves and their 'Palm Tree Islands' development that smartass British footballers have invested into.....would be a shame if yellowcake uranium or sarin gas canisters suddenly washed up on their beachfronts.....Howaboudid George and Tone? Another $2-3 billion for a little exploratory deep sea diving by those inspectors?....

[4dsc]

3. Can we please start the IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS

so we can to the bottom of this lie..

[T_i_B]

4. All that stuff in Blair's dossier

and none of it turned up. :eyes:

Ever get the feeling that you've been lied to?

[lazarus]

5. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=131403