"CIA Adviser: Progress in Iraqi WMD Hunt"--crap or no crap?

[Composed Thinker]

CIA Adviser: Progress in Iraqi WMD Hunt
1 hour, 47 minutes ago

By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON - A CIA (news - web sites) adviser told lawmakers Thursday that progress was being made in the hunt for Iraq (news - web sites)'s weapons of mass destruction, but Democrats decried the so-far fruitless searches and questioned the Bush administration's rationale for war.


David Kay, who is serving as a special adviser for the weapons search, said inspectors have found physical evidence of Iraqi activity on weapons of mass destruction, but he declined to discuss details. He said investigators had made a "tactical and strategic decision" to focus on biological rather than on chemical or nuclear programs, saying, "Those are the areas that we're principally talking about progress."


The Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat, Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, expressed concern that the searches are being diverted away from finding actual weapons.


"Signs of a weapons program are very different than the stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons that were a certainty before the war," Rockefeller said. "We did not go to war to disrupt Saddam's weapons program, we went to disarm him."


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[Itascapark]

1. BULL BULL BULL BULL

SHIT! How can anyone possibly take what anyone connected with this goulish Administration says???

[Composed Thinker]

Uh

We can assume that they are lying, but isn't it possible they actually have something?

[Itascapark]

5. We can assume they have something

but what that something is remains to be seen: how old is it? In what context would it have been used? Did the US provide the funding for it? Was it planted?

There are now, to my mind, too many questions about Bush and his reasons for going to war to assume what they're telling us is on the level.

[Composed Thinker]

7. Right

What I hated about this is that it was incredibly vague. Why haven't we found anything yet? What is the strategy? But hey, if it's a lie or a deceptive phrase, it will come back to haunt them. Or so we hope.

[newyawker99]

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[dflprincess]

2. Kennedy really said "mass deception"

All right Ted!

[lkinsale]

3. Perhaps they've had enough time now to plant them?

n/t

[gulliver]

4. Building an expectation that weapons programs...

...are all they were talking about. As Roberts of CBS said yesterday the Bushies are trying to "move the goalposts."

[NNN0LHI]

6. Doesn't "CIA Adviser" kind of give away how much credence....

...one should give this story?

Don

[gratuitous]

8. We didn't find WMDs under Udai and Qusay's bodies

That's "progress" to the Corrupt Administration of Low Expectations.

[caledesi]

9. Crap and more crap.