Len Anthony: Why Nothing Changes

People really believe that the WMD we all agreed never existed nor could find are now being used? I’m totally falbergasted – Ade people this inane to ignore the truth based on their dislike of party or politician!?!

Well I appreciate Einstein Jr aboves comment that we just should have bombed the WMD caches “then” so we knew where they were but to shoot himself in the foot politically Bush just ‘acted’ like he couldn’t find them? Phew, reality hasn’t been suspended its been expelled.

“… the WMD we all agreed never existed … ” What do you mean “we”, kimoslobby?

Just because the anti-Bush biased, mean scream media would not investigate what the Polish Army found in Sadamn’s western desert, does not mean that something did not exist there.

“Chemical Weapons are NOT WMDs” – TheDiplomate.com – By James R. Holmes – August 31, 2013 ( http://thediplomat.com/2013/08/chemical-weapons-are-not-a-wmd/ ) … So I guess there may be a semantics question here,

It’s OK, it’s OK … I deny that man-made global warming exists.

I think you were the one dreaming.

As if gripped by a mental grand mal seizure, the right wing side of Syria’s chemical and biological weapons inevitably grabs its chest, and looking up to the sky, shouts out “It’s the big one, I’m coming to join ya WMD” …… and there, resurrected, looking down into the conversation from heaven, are all the dead claims of WMD in Iraq prior to 2003.

This “they moved them! We KNOW THEY DID!” theory isn’t new. Senior Bush administration officials publicly flirted with the idea that Iraq transferred weapons to other nations. The claim has been promoted on conservative media and Fox News for red meat many times over the years. In 2007, Mitt Romney said that it was “entirely possible” that weapons of mass destruction were moved from Iraq to Syria during the run-up to the Iraq war. Entirely. Thanks Mitt, for the detailed analysis.

Colin Powell used the words “evidence” “true” and “well-documented” here, read it yourself. He didn’t stutter.

And that is my third point. And it is key. The Iraqis have never accounted for all of the biological weapons they admitted they had and we know they had. They have never accounted for all the organic material used to make them. And they have not accounted for many of the weapons filled with these agents such as there are 400 bombs. This is evidence, not conjecture. This is true. This is all well-documented.

He staked his *reputation* on it!

Alas, even poor Colin Powell was taken in by the cover up. Someone should have told him there really were WMD, before he broke down and turned traitor:

“It has been known for several years that the source called Curveball was totally unreliable,” Powell told the Guardian. “The question should be put to the CIA and the DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency] as to why this wasn’t known before the false information was put into the NIE sent to Congress, the president’s State of the Union address and my 5 February presentation to the U.N.”

“That devastated me,” he said.

The fact remains, there is absolutely zero credible evidence that this was ever the case.

Here’s an AP report from January 2005:

Intelligence and congressional officials say they have not seen any information—never “a piece,” said one—indicating that WMD or significant amounts of components and equipment were transferred from Iraq to neighboring Syria, Jordan or elsewhere…The [Bush] administration acknowledged…that the search for banned weapons is largely over. The Iraq Survey Group’s chief, Charles Duelfer, is expected to submit the final installments of his report in February. A small number of the organization’s experts will remain on the job in case new intelligence on Iraqi WMD is unearthed.

But the officials familiar with the search say U.S. authorities have found no evidence that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein transferred WMD or related equipment out of Iraq.

A special adviser to the CIA director, Duelfer declined an interview request through an agency spokesman. In his last public statements, he told a Senate panel last October that it remained unclear whether banned weapons could have been moved from Iraq.

“What I can tell you is that I believe we know a lot of materials left Iraq and went to Syria. There was certainly a lot of traffic across the border points,” he said. “But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot say.”

Last week, a congressional official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said suggestions that weapons or components were sent from Iraq were based on speculation stemming from uncorroborated information.

After the subsequent report was released, Duelfer gave an interview to PBS NewsHour in which he expressed doubt that Iraq transferred WMDs to Syria prior to the US-led invasion. “Syria, we had some intelligence that perhaps some materials, suspicious materials, had been moved there,” he said. “We looked as closely as we could at that, there were a few leads which we were not able to fully run down, largely because of the security situation, but it’s my judgment that had substantial stocks, important stocks been moved to Syria, someone would have told something to us about that.”

And in the years since, no new evidence has come to light suggesting otherwise, unless you call Glenn Beck’s musings publishable fact, or perhaps you’ve hung your hat on an “official opinion” – maybe this kook caught your attention?

Former United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw alleged that the Russians played an extensive role in transporting materials into both Syria and Lebanon, “to prevent the United States from discovering them.” Shaw claimed trucks were transporting materials to Syria and returning empty. In addition, containers with warnings painted on them were supposed to have been moved to a Beirut hospital basement. “They were moved by Russian Spetsnaz (special forces) units out of uniform, that were specifically sent to Iraq to move the weaponry and eradicate any evidence of its existence”. The People’s Republic of China is also alleged to have helped remove WMD equipment.Principal

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Lawrence Di Rita called Shaw’s charges “absurd and without any foundation.” DiRita noted that Shaw “has been directed on several occasions to produce evidence of his wide-ranging and fantastic charges and provide it to the DoD inspector general. To my knowledge, he has not done so.”

Dueling “officials,” anyone?

Ever hear of “official hearsay” being used as “evidence”?

I have. It is called “WMD”

Who bothers to read the Encyclopedia Britannica when you can go online and learn how to build an IED or vest bomb.

It is illegal for one to shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.

Well that one makes sense, it gives the shooter an unfair advantage. Buffalo can’t climb stairs and may not fit in some elevators. Totally unsportsmanlike.

Depends on whether crapping my pants scares it away before I can reach the gun.

I guess I’ll have to go up to the Third floor.

That’s nothing. Here in Taxifornia the g’ment regulations say you can marry a goat or a sheep and get a farming subsidy for it.

Now how do you know that? Been doing the research?

Jus’ tryin’ to get your goat … :>) … :>)