Report expected to confirm failure to find WMD in Iraq (Out Today)

[Khephra]

Report expected to confirm failure to find WMD in Iraq

02.10.2003
By RUPERT CORNWELL

WASHINGTON - Already shaken by the furore over the leak of a CIA operative's identity, the Bush administration is bracing for more fall-out from the Iraq invasion from a report due tomorrow that will confirm the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction - the main justification advanced for the war last March.

David Kay, the head of the 1200-strong Iraq Survey group that is leading the hunt for the illegal weapons, is expected to tell the House and Senate Intelligence committees that Saddam Hussein may have been bluffing over whether he possessed chemical and biological arms.

In particular, Mr Kay is likely to highlight the instructions issued by Baghdad to Iraqi commanders in the field shortly before war, to use chemical weapons against the invaders. Mr Kay will probably say that these instructions, intercepted by US intelligence services, were fakes, intended by Saddam to make himself appear a greater threat that he in fact was.

Officially his report will be "inconclusive", and stress Saddam's skill at hiding his prohibited weapons. But it may also raise the possibility that he had them destroyed shortly after, or even before, the 1991 Gulf war which drove his forces from Kuwait.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3526648&thesection=news&thesubsection=world

[VolcanoJen]

1. Wasn't it due 2 weeks ago...?

Wonder how much editing went into the final version...

[Birthmark]

2. Hey, you try looking up 75 synonyms for 'failure'

[Jinx]

5. editing

Due 2 weeks ago? Maybe they sent it to Tony Blair and Alistaire Campbell for some dossier-style 'proofreading.'

[Robin Hood]

6. It needed some sexing up.

Those brits sure are randy bastards.

[Robin Hood]

3. So Scott Ritter was/is right.

Perhaps the allegations against him and some sex charges should be investigated. Sounds like Rove hit him to.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30570

[The Magistrate]

10. Of Course Mr. Ritter Is Right, Sir

He has always struck me as a very sound fellow.

If there were anything but trumping up behind certain allegations against him, he would not be today at liberty.

[radfringe]

4. Watch for the weekend spin from the whitewash house

"...errrr Fool me once shame on, ummm ...me... errr you... fool me some more and I'll out your wife.... "


Any bets that Rice Cheney Rumsfeld and Powell will be spinning on the Sunday talk shows? Between outing Plame and now this report....

I keep getting this picture in my mind everytime there's a "controversy" and the whitewash house dominates on these shows. I see the Whistleass dressed up as the Wicked Witch of the West, in his/her castle. rice, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and others are in the flying monkey costumes. In the background are the network head quarters and the Whistleass is shouting "Fly! Fly! Fly, my monkeys! Spin the lies for me!!!"

[0007]

7. Remember that movie "Bad day at Black Rock?"

1. No WMD found.

2. No Saddam Hussein or bin Laden and Ken Lay is also a free man.

3. Treason in the White House.

4. junior's poll numbers are taking a hike.

5. Rush is busted for drugs.

7. More American soldiers are being killed in Iraq.

8. More layoffs are in sight.

9. Ann Coulter is thinking about having a sex change in Trinidad, Colorado from a doctor Biber.

What else can the freepers cheer about today?

[BonjourUSA]

8. I'd like to suggest a new video game.

You're a bloody and cruel dictator. Your country is a desert in which you can nothing hide, completely closed and isolated for 12 years because the "civilized" world condemned you at a total embargo (medical drugs included). Almost daily aircrafts fly over and bomb the north of your country and efficacious spy satellites survey all your moves. Very important : your country has the cheapest oilfield cost of the world.

You wish to build very complicated weapons : WMDs. Because you're a fool who just want to piss the world off. These weapons need large plants, money, rare materials, sophisticated equipments, many high-educated workers... How would you do that? But you win or lose, this game will have always the same moral end (don't forget you're bloody and cruel, and surely an antichrist. In a perfect world you must be ousted) : you'll be invaded by the most powerful army of the world.

The game name could be : "The crusade for oil"

Saddam is waiting for your solutions.

[lumpy]

9. Oh hell

I heard those missing in action WMDs were smuggled into Kuwait to be put up for auction.

[MaineDem]

11. Today isn't Friday

I would have expected this to be announced on a Friday so it could be buried over the weekend.