US withdraws WMD hunters

[Loonman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/08/international/middleeast/08WEAP.html?ex=1074142800&en=2f89ff26349d04e8&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 — The Bush administration has quietly withdrawn from Iraq a 400-member military team whose job was to scour the country for military equipment, according to senior government officials.

The step was described by some military officials as a sign that the administration might have lowered its sights and no longer expected to uncover the caches of chemical and biological weapons that the White House cited as a principal reason for going to war last March.

[lancdem]

1. Most of the American people seemed to have forgotten

the war was about WMDs, so this news won't make much of an impact, I'm afraid.

[arwalden]

2. Let Me Know If CNN or FOX or MSNBC Mentions This

as our expert military weapons inspectors come slinking out, furtively, tails-between-legs... it appears that what we've been saying all along might just be true after all.

Hmmm. It was all a big lie. Isn't that something?

-- Allen

[lefty_mcduff]

3. Was wondering why the media whores...

were jawboning yesterday with assholes like Frum and Perle about "the 'mukin people don;t care about WMD' , 'that wasn't really the issue', etc.

Turns out it was a little prep work for this kinda news. Nothing to see here folks, move along...

[kitkatrose]

10. Ugh!

Do you remember what the whores said was the issue if WMDs weren't it? Why do Americans seem to have the attention span of gnats? I mean, hell, I can remember the changing reasons for the war, why can't they? x( :mad:

[rustydog]

4. When David kay exited iraq,

he took 1200 WMD "Experts"with him...We left behind 400 others just in case something showed up?

How many checked from '91 until invasion-day 2003?

How many UN inspectors were there until Bush said get out Blix, we're gonna bring it on.

When is this lying, murdering Presidential imposter going to be impeached?

[napi21]

5. Are they finally admiting they were wrong?

Holy COW! Am I actually seeing this admin. admiting they were wrong? Can you even imagine what their responmse would be if a Dem Admin. would have done this?

I sure hope the waffling, LIES scenario plays strong through the campaign!!!

[spunky]

7. I wouldn't say they admitted they were wrong

They're just trying to sneak out with as little press as possible to avoid admitting that.

And I can't believe it NEVER occured to anyone in the past 10 years that a guy like Hussein would exaggerate what he's got to seem more intimidating to the world. I always thought it seemed weird that Iraq managed to build up this huge WMD program that no other nations outside of the US and our allies could accomplish. But then I'm always skeptical.

[loudnclear]

9. I said all along, Saddam was trying to sit at the table of nations as head

of state. He exxagerated to impress and maybe pressure acceptance...you know, he wanted to be accepted like Marcos, Musharaff and the other
brutal dictators that we supported in the past. But that did not fit our PNAC agenda...so.....

Now we can't even find the WMDs that we planted.

[underpants]

6. NO!NO! NO! Read the damned article

This is not the Iraqi Survey Group this wa a team that was looking for conventional weapons (RPG's and the like). Kay's WMD group is still there. Although it seems strange that they would leave when according to many reports there are still unguarded ammo dumps this is NOT THE WMD TEAM.

Someone posted this in LBN and made the same claims.

READ THE DAMNED ARTICLE PEOPLE!

[spunky]

8. That's not how I read the article. . .

"The step was described by some military officials as a sign that the administration might have lowered its sights and no longer expected to uncover the caches of chemical and biological weapons that the White House cited as a principal reason for going to war last March.

A separate military team that specializes in disposing of chemical and biological weapons remains part of the 1,400-member Iraq Survey Group, which has been searching Iraq for more that seven months at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. But that team is "still waiting for something to dispose of," said a survey group member.

. . . David Kay, the head of the survey group,"

So, it is Kay's group, and they were looking for Bio and Chem weapons, which are WMD. . .

[underpants]

11. Well I heard on NPR that this was a conventional weapon search team

A separate military team that specializes in disposing of chemical and biological weapons remains ....