White House DOWNPLAYS missing arms report

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday played down a report in which U.N. weapons inspectors documented additional materials missing from weapons sites in Iraq.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the Bush administration had taken steps to ensure sites were secured, and he suggested it was doubtful the looted material was being used to boost other countries' weapons programs.

In a report to the U.N. Security Council, acting chief weapons inspector Demetrius Perricos said that satellite imagery experts had determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles had been removed from 109 sites, up from 90 reported in March....

"We have been working closely with the government in Iraq to ensure that Iraq's former weapons of mass destruction personnel and proliferation materials do not contribute to proliferation programs in other countries," McClellan said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050603/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_iraq_weapons

[niceypoo]

1. Weren't the WMD sites all looted?

When they allowed the country to degenerate into chaos after the invasion werent all 109 sealed WMD sites looted clean? I believe they were.

[rzemanfl]

2. What "government in Iraq?" There is no government in Iraq. n/t

[mcscajun]

3. It's simple, really...

...before we went into Iraq, and shortly thereafter, any "missing" equipment was automatically presumed to be a threat.

"After the dust settled"; i.e, when "major combat operations" were deemed over, any missing equipment is automatically not really missing; i.e., its status becomes "doubtful".

/sarcasm ON

Sheesh! Don't you people GET it? They've been "catapulting the propaganda" for months on end, and there are still people in here THINKING for Themselves?!?!

I'm aghast.

/sarcasm OFF

It's very simple...for simple-minded Bushbots, that is. Ugh.

[faithnotgreed]

4. kick

[0007]

5. The thief will always downplay the missing items that the thief

knows his buddy thief stole.

'Tis like making the thieves the policeman to investigate the crime.

Who's fooling who?