DU/vote up this Impt WMD Story on Yahoo

[BQueen]

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

it's only got 2.5 stars and needs a pull out of the Friday news dump.

a taste:

Mystery Unfolds Over Hunt for WMD in Iraq
By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent
Fri Sep 2, 2:38 PM ET
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.
"Are we 85 percent done?" the CIA boss demanded. The arms hunters knew what he wanted to hear. "No!" they shouted back. "Let me hear it again!" They shouted again.

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

Veteran inspector Rod Barton couldn't believe his ears. "It was nonsense," the Australian biologist said of that February evening last year, when the then-chief of U.S. intelligence secretly flew to Baghdad and dropped in on the lakeside Perfume Palace, chandelier-hung home of the Iraq Survey Group.

"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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what, he'd just watched "Knute Rockne: All American"? (for the young, that's the source of RayGun's "Gipper" nickname)

[BQueen]

1. page 2 so quickly...

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