"But Baghdad was on Bush's mind" - WMD - Friday Dump! Keep Kicked!

[sabra]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_the_wmd_story_2

Mystery unfolds over hunt for WMD in Iraq

The Associated Press

(AP) — Beneath the giant dome of a Baghdad palace, facing his team of scientists and engineers, George Tenet sounded more like a football coach than a spymaster, a coach who didn't know the game was over.

The weapons are out there, Tenet insisted. Go find them.

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"It wasn't that we didn't know the major answers," recalled Barton, whose account matched that of another key participant. "Are there WMD in the country? We knew the answers."

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In fact, as President George W. Bush took office 25 months later, the CIA was reporting, "We do not have any direct evidence" Baghdad was rebuilding its WMD programs.

But Baghdad was on Bush's mind

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The Bush administration then sent Charles Duelfer — like Kay a senior U.N. inspector from the 1990s — to take over the arms hunt. He arrived in time for Tenet's secret visit and palace pep talk on Feb. 12, 2004, but, like Kay before him, Duelfer could find no sign of WMD.

Here is the Yahoo link:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_the_wmd_story_2

it needs votes! keep this kicked!

[sabra]

1. kick! for the truth.

[sabra]

2. I am not going to let this one sink!

For now, in the summer of 2001, Iraq was back-page news. But Condoleezza Rice, national security adviser, assured an interviewer, ``Saddam Hussein is on the radar screen.'' By summer's end, in the traumatic aftermath of Sept. 11's terror, he was in the crosshairs.

On the day after Sept. 11, the talk in the White House Situation Room was of ``getting Iraq,'' says former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke. Clarke's memoir says an insistent Bush ordered him to look for ``any shred'' to tie Iraq to the Sept. 11 attacks - even though U.S. agencies knew al-Qaida was responsible and Iraq wasn't linked to the terror group.

[MadeinOhio]

3. Bush: Once a liar, always a liar!

:mad:

[sabra]

4. AP is laying it all out

Bush wanted Iraq from day one! This article is going to fall through the cracks...

[sakabatou]

5. As long as someone is looking for WMDs

Bushco can say they had WMDs.

[sabra]

6. however this article is showing everyone knew they weren't there!

[MadeinOhio]

7. Send this article into CNN and every single corporate outlet!!!!

Urge them and command them to do a hour or longer segment on it!!!!!!!

Its time the world know the truth, its time for their impeachment.

[sabra]

8. well it's on the AP wire, so it's getting picked up

however, the timing couldn't be better for it to disappear :-(

[nickgutierrez]

9. Whoa!

This would be a big, big deal if there wasn't such horrible things happening in the path of Katrina.

[sabra]

10. ding ding ding

and a Friday before Labor Day weekend...

[sabra]

11. I am going to keep kicking this one :-)

:kick:

[truebrit71]

12. Kick.

Lying liars....

[sabra]

13. only 59 votes - with a 2 star rating!

it needs heavy DU help.

[Roland99]

33. 223 votes...2 stars

[Fridays Child]

14. Kick.

[MamaBear]

15. kick

[sabra]

16. 67 votes - 2 1/2 stars! keep it going.

[Synnical]

17. Kick

[sabra]

18. 83 votes - 3 stars! You guys rock! Keep it going...

[Sparkman]

19. Hi Sabra, does that article have a 9/02/05 date?! Unbelievable. 85% done?

[sabra]

21. this article a break down of the whole WMD search

the %85 is reference to awhile back when Tenet was desperately looking for any WMD's (which everyone knew didn't exist).

[MadeinOhio]

20. Reccomend this one. n/t

[bustarbusto]

22. Boot nt

[sabra]

23. 93 votes on Yahoo, still 3 stars.

:kick:

[sabra]

24. down the memory hole it goes :-(

oh well, I tried.

peace.

[wiggs]

25. back up. nt

[xchrom]

26. kicking

[AnnInLa]

27. K

[Mabus]

28. Done and nominated.

2 1/2 stars with 177 votes.

[brettdale]

29. kick

kick

[msgadget]

30. VOTE, damn it!

:kick:

[RobertSeattle]

31. And Tenet may spill the beans...

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050831-091719-1217r.htm

[jasmeel]

32. Why is this story rated so low? Vote it up!!