Apparently even the CIA does not agree with your efforts.
Come on already ... this stuff was sold as though there were Sam's Warehouses (plural) filled with this stuff ... ready to be launched ... blah, blah, blah Just like the Government has sold Boobus Americanus a bill of goods for every effort since at least WWI part 1, so too it was done here. The fraudulent Yellow Cake was addressed in at least one of these pieces.
A Media story was cited. Huh?
This is all a sham. The "War on Terror" with its current 'circus rings' is a replacement for the "Cold War" -- without a Country to much it up by going bankrupt. Lots of money in the Military-Industrial Complex ... it is not like it is simply going to 'go away'.
Regard$,
--MJ
One of the tragic ironies of the decision to invade Iraq is that the Iraqi WMD declaration required by security council resolution 1441, submitted by Iraq in December 2002, and summarily rejected by Bush and Blair as repackaged falsehoods, now stands as the most
accurate compilation of data yet assembled regarding Iraq’s WMD programs (more so than even Duelfer’s ISG report, which contains much unsubstantiated speculation). Saddam Hussein has yet to be contradicted on a single point of substantive fact. Iraq had disarmed; no one wanted to accept that conclusion. -- Scott Ritter, 09 Oct 2004
At 09:54 PM 10/20/2010, you wrote:
But in June of 2006, we uncovered five hundred cannisters, for missiles. We still have not accounted for all of the WMD's that were sold to Saddam.--
What about the yellow cake?
Why has the media not covered this story?
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:04 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote:
- CIA’s final report: No WMD found in Iraq
- Recommends freeing detainees held for weapons knowledge
- updated 4/25/2005 9:24:44 PM ET 2005-04-26T01:24:44
- WASHINGTON In his final word, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.
- “After more than 18 months, the WMD investigation and debriefing of the WMD-related detainees has been exhausted,” wrote Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraq Survey Group, in an addendum to the final report he issued last fall.
- “As matters now stand, the WMD investigation has gone as far as feasible.”
- In 92 pages posted online Monday evening, Duelfer provides a final look at an investigation that occupied over 1,000 military and civilian translators, weapons specialists and other experts at its peak. His latest addenda conclude a roughly 1,500-page report released last fall.
- On Monday, Duelfer said there is no purpose in keeping many of the detainees who are in custody because of their knowledge on Iraq’s weapons, although he did not provide any details about the current number. A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the ultimate decision on their release will be made by the Iraqi authorities.
- Warnings about Saddam’s experts
- The survey group also provided warnings.
- The addenda conclude that Saddam’s programs created a pool of experts now available to develop and produce weapons and many will be seeking work. While most will probably turn to the “benign civil sector,” the danger remains that “hostile foreign governments, terrorists or insurgents may seek Iraqi expertise.”
- “Because a single individual can advance certain WMD activities, it remains an important concern,” one addendum said.
- Another addendum also noted that military forces in Iraq may continue to find small numbers of degraded chemical weapons most likely misplaced or improperly destroyed before the 1991 Gulf War . In an insurgent’s hands, “the use of a single even ineffectual chemical weapon would likely cause more terror than deadlier conventional explosives,” another addendum said.
- And still another said the survey group found some potential nuclear-related equipment was “missing from heavily damaged and looted sites.” Yet, because of the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, the survey group was unable to determine what happened to the equipment, which also had alternate civilian uses.
- “Some of it probably has been sold for its scrap value. Other pieces might have been disassembled” and converted into motors or condensers, an addendum said. “Still others could have been taken intact to preserve their function.”
- Small team still in place
- Leaving the door to the investigation open just a crack, the U.S. official said a small team still operates under the U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq, although the survey group officially disbanded earlier this month. Those staying on continue to examine documents and follow up on any reports of weapons of mass destruction.
- In a statement accompanying the final installment, Duelfer said a surprise discovery would most likely be in the biological weapons area because clues, such as the size of the facilities used to develop them, would be comparatively small.
- Among unanswered questions, Duelfer said a group formed to investigate whether WMD-related material was shipped out of Iraq before the invasion wasn’t able to reach firm conclusions because the security situation limited and later halted their work. Investigators were focusing on transfers from Iraq to Syria.
- No information gleaned from questioning Iraqis supported the possibility, one addendum said. The Iraq Survey Group believes “it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to Syria took place. However, ISG was unable to rule out unofficial movement of limited WMD-related materials.”
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