For those of you who are so open minded, and of such refined sensibilities, that you simply cannot read news that's presented on FoxNews, here's Breitbart's take on the same story:
http://tinyurl.com/km6s5 - - - Last year the head of Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, said that insurgents in Iraq had already used old chemical weapons in their attacks. Nevertheless, "the impression that the Iraqi Survey Group left with the American people was they didn't find anything," Hoekstra said. "But this says: Weapons have been discovered; more weapons exist. And they state that Iraq was not a WMD-free zone, that there are continuing threats from the materials that are or may still be in Iraq," he said. - - - - Bob ! -----Original Message----- ! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Calco ! Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 4:51 AM ! To: 'ProFox Email List' ! Subject: [OT] Report: Hundreds of WMD found in Iraq ! ! http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/Iraq_WMD_Declassified.pdf ! ! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html ! ! ! - - - ! Asked why the Bush administration, if it had known about the ! information since April or earlier, didn't advertise it, Hoekstra ! conjectured that the president has been forward-looking and ! concentrating on the development of a secure government in Iraq. ! ! Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior ! Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were ! not in useable conditions. ! ! "This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the ! official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and ! the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which ! this country went to war." ! ! The official said the findings did raise questions about the years of ! weapons inspections that had not resulted in locating the fairly ! sizeable stash of chemical weapons. And he noted that it may say ! something about Hussein's intent and desire. The report does suggest ! that some of the weapons were likely put on the black market and may ! have been used outside Iraq. ! ! He also said that the Defense Department statement shortly after the ! March 2003 invasion saying that "we had all known weapons facilities ! secured," has proven itself to be untrue. ! ! "It turned out the whole country was an ammo dump," he said, adding ! that on more than one occasion, a conventional weapons site has been ! uncovered and chemical weapons have been discovered mixed within them. ! ! - - - ! ! So much for "no WMDs found". While I agree these are small potatoes ! compared to what we believed we'd find, it's quite possible we haven't ! found everything, and it's possible what we thought he had was hidden ! somewhere else. And even these "small potatoes" can kill. ! ! But in any case, for those who are interested here is a factul ! reference in the declassified summary one can point to in order to ! refute the "no WMDs found" argument. You cannot say "no WMDs were ! found" all you can say is "only about 500 chemical WMD munitions were ! found so far." If these had been found right away, when every stray ! fart was screened for WMD content in the initial post-invasion search, ! then our political dialog would be very different right now... But ! they were found well after the official news cycle, as evidenced by ! how little play this got in the media yesterday. ! ! I also don't think it's reasonable to say they were "secure" before ! the invasion but the invasion made them "insecure". They were ! dispersed to god-only-knows-where so that the inspections would never ! find them, either, which raises the question in my mind if Hussein ! even knew where all of them were. As Leland might say, "plausible ! deniability". ! ! And I definitely don't think it's fair to say "Bush lied" -- clearly ! he believed there was significant stockpiles there and on that basis ! made a good part of his decision (Geore Tenet's "slam dunk"), which is ! one reason why he's not trumpeting this. The idea that this was all ! fabrication of some pinheads at PNAC also doesn't float because, for ! one thing, these WMDs are real, and the suspicions about Iraq's ! capabilities and potential collaboration with Al Qaeda have been ! around for years and were equally pumped by Democrats and Republicans ! in their turn. I will gladly pull out the quotes again, not to mention ! the 1998 ABC News story centered around the 1998 indictment of Bin ! Laden that alleges that very connection, all over again. It's funny ! how they sunk down the memory whole when it was politically ! convenient. ! ! Talk about an inconvenient truth... ! ! ! - Bob ! ! ! 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