Iraq weapons hunt is officially over !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BrklynLiberal]

SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!
1300 dead Americans, 10,000 wounded Americans and untold dead Iraqis later............

Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.

Iraq weapons hunt is officially over

By Seattle Times news services

The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. The top CIA weapons hunter is home, and analysts are back at Langley, Va.

In interviews, officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas.

Four months after Charles Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG's final conclusions and will be published this spring.

President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top administration officials asserted before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear-weapons program, had chemical and biological weapons, and maintained links to al-Qaida affiliates to whom it might give such weapons to use against the United States.

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002148445_iraq12.html

[Art_from_Ark]

1. It was a foregone conclusion

[Moderator]

2. Please edit

your subject line to take out the !!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you.

[rodeodance]

3. oh, I bet they are still looking and will continue to look! -under desks

[annabanana]

4. NOW maybe they can look for the stuff that was stolen from

the huge stockpile that was stolen (under our "watch") and is probably fueling the IED's that're doing so much of the killing.

phfft.

[Moderator]

5. duplicate topic, please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1142845&mesg_id=1142845