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Sailor in the Desert
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 Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject: NY Times: Iraq Had WMD 'Stockpiles' in 2003 |
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NewsMax has reported that the NY Times is reporting that Iraq did have WMDs in 2003. I have the link to the Times article and a comment on my blog.
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LewWaters
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I heard this earlier this morning on Fox and Friends. I started to laugh wondering if they will ever make up their minds whether they existed or not.
How long has the leftstream media been berating Bush for "starting a war on false premises?" Now, they want to berate him for not guarding WMDs that they have been claiming for a long time never existed?
I may not be able to look to the New York Times for much informative news, but they are always good for a laugh  
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Rdtf
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Make you wonder about the motive of the Times. Almost laughable, now that they see that Bush had it right all along, they want to redeem themselves, or at least be a part of the 'in' crowd.
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Sailor in the Desert
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I did notthat the Times article was sticking with that bogus claim over the 377 tons of explosives that were looted from that one armory. Seems that armory was already empty when US Forces arrived there.
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GM Strong
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DUHH!! No kidding. How many times will the geniuses at The Senile Old Lady (no offense meant to our seasoned citizens) report this and and how many ways will they spin it?
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crockspot
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| Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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Here's the direct link to the NYT story. Get a login from bugmenot.com if you need one.
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edit to convert long link
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kate
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NY Times link above works (for full article). Newsmax has a shorter recap of the Times story
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/13/101911.shtml
Sunday, March 13, 2005
| Quote: | NY Times: Iraq Had WMD 'Stockpiles' in 2003
In a stunning about-face, the New York Times reported Sunday that when the U.S. attacked Iraq in March 2003, Saddam Hussein possessed "stockpiles of monitored chemicals and materials," as well as sophisticated equipment to manufacture nuclear and biological weapons, which was removed to "a neighboring state" before the U.S. could secure the weapons sites.
The U.N.'s Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission [Unmovic], "has filed regular reports to the Security Council since last May," the paper said, "about the dismantlement of important weapons installations and the export of dangerous materials to foreign states."
"Officials of the commission and the [International] Atomic Energy Agency have repeatedly called on the Iraqi government to report on what it knows of the fate of the thousands of pieces of monitored equipment and stockpiles of monitored chemicals and materials."
Last fall, IAEA director Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed that "nuclear-related materials" had gone missing from monitored sites, calling on Iraqi officials to start the process of accounting for the missing stockpiles still ostensibly under the agency's supervision.
Quoting Sami al-Araji, Iraq's deputy minister of industry since the 1980s, the Times said:
"It appeared that a highly organized operation had pinpointed specific plants in search of valuable equipment, some of which could be used for both military and civilian applications, and carted the machinery away."
Calling the operation "sophisticated," Dr. Araji said the removal effort featured "cranes and the lorries, and they depleted the whole sites," adding, "They knew what they were doing."
The top Iraqi defense official said equipment capable of making parts for missiles as well as chemical, biological and nuclear arms was missing from 8 or 10 sites that were the heart of Iraq's WMD program.
Dr. Araji said that if the equipment had left the country, its most likely destination was a neighboring state.
The United Nations, worried that the nuclear material and equipment could be used in clandestine bomb production, has been hunting for it throughout the Middle East, largely unsuccessfully, the Times said. |
In a stunning about-face
that's an understatement, article should have carried a warning are you sitting down
See this thread below for where those WMD are now
King of Terror in Lebanon has Saddam Hussein’s Missing WMD
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crockspot
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kate, that link to newsmax is broken. Here is one that works:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/13/101911.shtml
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kate
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thanks much crockspot - fixed it, I left the "L" off the "shtml"
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