U.S. Report Finds No Evidence of Iraq WMD!!

[ODShowtime]

Originally posted by Warham
I kinda like that pic. :D

looks to me like the one is humpin' the other's leg

[Big Train]

That is just one possibility...discount it all you like. Let's just hope it isn't tragic....

[DLR'sCock]

Well GWB's spawn or not, I would bang both of them, a threeseome would be fun!

[ELVIS]

The WMD's were shipped out of the country...

[Lqskdiver]

Re: U.S. Report Finds No Evidence of Iraq WMD!!

Originally posted by FORD
U.S. Report Finds No Evidence of Iraq WMD

By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector reported Wednesday that he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991. He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's weapons capability weakened during a dozen years of U.N. sanctions before the U.S. invasion last year.

Contrary to prewar statements by President Bush and top administration officials, Saddam did not have chemical and biological stockpiles when the war began and his nuclear capabilities were deteriorating, not advancing, according to the report by Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group.

Duelfer's findings come less than four weeks before an election in which Bush's handling of Iraq has become the central issue. Democratic candidate John Kerry has seized on comments this week by the former U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, that the United States didn't have enough troops in Iraq to prevent a breakdown in security after Saddam was toppled.

The inspector's report could boost Kerry's contention that Bush rushed to war based on faulty intelligence and that sanctions and U.N. weapons inspectors should have been given more time.


But Duelfer also supports Bush's argument that Saddam remained a threat. Interviews with the toppled leader and other former Iraqi officials made clear to inspectors that Saddam had not lost his ambition to pursue weapons of mass destruction and hoped to revive his weapons program if U.N. sanctions were lifted, the report said.



"There was a risk, a real risk, that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information to terrorist networks," Bush said in a campaign speech in Wilkes Barre, Pa., defending the decision to invade. "In the world after Sept. 11, that was a risk we could not afford to take."

But a top Democrat in Congress, Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, said Duelfer's findings undercut the two main arguments for war: that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and that he would share them with terrorists like al-Qaida.

"We did not go to war because Saddam had future intentions to obtain weapons of mass destruction," Levin said.

Traveling in Africa, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that the report shows that Saddam was "doing his best" to get around the United Nations' sanctions. For months, Blair has been trying to defend his justification for joining the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in the face of heavy criticism from some in his own party.

Duelfer presented his findings in a report of more than 1,000 pages, and in appearances before Senate committees.

The report avoids direct comparisons with prewar claims by the Bush administration on Iraq's weapons systems. But Duelfer largely reinforces the conclusions of his predecessor, David Kay, who said in January, "We were almost all wrong" on Saddam's weapons programs. The White House did not endorse Kay's findings then, noting that Duelfer's team was continuing to search for weapons.

Duelfer found that Saddam, hoping to end U.N. sanctions, gradually began ending prohibited weapons programs starting in 1991. But as Iraq started receiving money through the U.N. oil-for-food program in the late 1990s, and as enforcement of the sanctions weakened, Saddam was able to take steps to rebuild his military, such as acquiring parts for missile systems.

However, the erosion of sanctions stopped after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Duelfer found, preventing Saddam from pursuing weapons of mass destruction.

Duelfer's team found no written plans by Saddam's regime to pursue banned weapons if U.N. sanctions were lifted. Instead, the inspectors based their findings that Saddam hoped to reconstitute his programs on interviews with Saddam after his capture, as well as talks with other top Iraqi officials.

The inspectors found Saddam was particularly concerned about the threat posed by Iran, the country's enemy in a 1980-88 war. Saddam said he would meet Iran's threat by any means necessary, which Duelfer understood to mean weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam believed the use of chemical weapons against Iran prevented Iraq's defeat in that war. He also was prepared to use such weapons in 1991 if the U.S.-led coalition had tried to topple him in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Tuesday that Saddam "had the intent and capability" to build weapons of mass destruction, and that he was "a gathering threat that needed to be taken seriously, that it was a matter of time before he was going to begin pursuing those weapons of mass destruction."

But before the war, the Bush administration cast Saddam as an immediate threat, not a gathering threat who would begin pursuing weapons in the future.

For example, Bush said in October 2002 that "Saddam Hussein still has chemical and biological weapons and is increasing his capabilities to make more." Bush also said then, "The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program."

Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said Wednesday that Duelfer's findings showed there is "no evidence whatsoever of the threats we were warned about." He spoke after Duelfer gave a closed-door briefing to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said Duelfer showed Iraq's ability to produce weapons of mass destruction had degraded since 1998. But Roberts called the report inconclusive on what happened to weapons stockpiles Saddam is believed to have once possessed.

Interviews with Saddam left Duelfer's team with the impression that Saddam was more concerned about Iran and Israel as enemies than he was about the United States. Saddam appeared to hold out hope that U.S. leaders would ultimately recognize that it was in the country's interest to deal with Iraq as an important, secular, oil-rich Middle Eastern nation, the report found.

The Iraq Survey Group will continue operations and may prepare smaller reports on issues that remain unresolved, including whether weapons had been smuggled out of Iraq and about intelligence that Saddam had mobile biological weapons labs.

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On the Net:

Key findings from the report are available at:

http://wid.ap.org/documents/iraq/041006keyfinding

Old news...this was actually expected since last night. And the fact that we still don't have stockpiles kinda makes this report moot. Just useless ammo for Democrats.


But noticed my highlights...he still intended to make weapons if resolutions were removed.

Some Senator from Cali said "Intentions does constitute danger"

WHAT THE FUCK!!!

Are you stupid, lady!! Were you not here on 9/11/01?!?!

If someone is building nukular weapons it's because they intend to use them!!

So what if we didn't find any stockpiles! Good!!

We got there before he could get his shit together and seriously cause problems.

It's called PREVENTION!!

Now we are keeping an eye on Iran! Oh, yeah, the UN is really taking this one seriously...about as serious as it took Saddam!

They can't handle shit and what it's going to come to is WE are going to have to go in there and clean up another fucking mess that the useless UN Security council couldn't handle.

Still think it's up to the UN to handle all wackos??

Here's a clear message on how they handle their foreign affairs:

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U.N. Warns Cannot Cope if Darfur Violence Continues

25 minutes ago World - Reuters


By Opheera McDoom

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The United Nations (news - web sites) warned on Wednesday it would not be able to cope if conditions do not improve in Sudan's Darfur region, devastated by violence which has driven more than 1.5 million from their homes.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041006/wl_nm/sudan_dc

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That's very reassuring!

[BigBadBrian]

Originally posted by DLR'sCock
Maybe the repukes need Ronald Reagan to come back from the dead and tell them that there were no WMD's when we invaded Iraq??? Would they believe it then???? I mean he's dead Right???? He might know???? Huh????I bet he talks to God all of the time....right???
But is he comes back from the dead, does that make Reagan Jesus???

Shut up you twit. You insult those of faith of all political parties. Go back to smelling mommy's soiled panty hose.

[Guitar Shark]

Don't worry BBB, nobody really understood what he was trying to say anyway.

[Mezro]

Originally posted by ELVIS
The WMD's were shipped out of the country...

Via UPS.

Mezro...ask what Brown can do for you...

[sambo]

"Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known unknowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know."

- Donald Rumsfeld

[Lqskdiver]

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word is means. If is means 'is, and never has been', that's one thing. If it means, 'there is none', that was a completely true statement. "

- Bill Clinton

[Jesus Christ]

Originally posted by DLR'sCock
Maybe the repukes need Ronald Reagan to come back from the dead and tell them that there were no WMD's when we invaded Iraq??? Would they believe it then???? I mean he's dead Right???? He might know???? Huh????I bet he talks to God all of the time....right???

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.


But is he comes back from the dead, does that make Reagan Jesus???

Not likely, My son

[ELVIS]

Jesus NEVER referred to another man as his son...

[Jesus Christ]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Jesus NEVER referred to another man as his son...

Gregory, why art thou always troubling thyself with trivialities such as these?

For he who hath seen Me hath seen the Father, and are ye not all His children?

[Sgt Schultz]

This is bad news for Bush. Bush based the ENTIRE rationale for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Husein on WMDs. The fact that they are now not there means Bush lied and there was no reason to invade. We made a mistake toppling Saddam Husein and waging an illegal war against him.

Since we have found no WMDs I call on all Democrats to join with me and call for the immediate release and reinstatment of Saddam Hussein as President of Iraq and for him to be compensated for the deaths of his sons. After Saddam has been put back in power the U.S. should suspend the no-fly zones and the UN should lift all sanctions. The U.S. should also compensate Iraq for waging war against her.

The U.S. should also be responsible to help Iraq dismantle democratic reforms and to help reform and rebuild Saddam's security apparatus and to help arrest all political prisoners or any others Saddam may deem as enemies of the state.

At the UN all former resolutions against Iraq should be repealed and new resolutions should be discussed regarding Iraq's territorial rights regarding Kuwait.

The Democrats have been vindicated in their opposition to the war in Iraq so I call on everyone to support them in this effort to bring back the legitimate President of Iraq who was toppled in an illegal war.

[Guitar Shark]

Nice post! But surely you can see that there's more to it, senor Schultz.