Iraq WMDs found, according to the BBC?

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Some of the critics of military intelligence (Seth Jackson, Dick Thompson) are pursuing a rather clever avenue for their arguments.
First, they demand to see documents that are secret and then claim that because they can’t see them they have been lied to. This is like demanding to see your neighbor’s medical records, and when denied, claiming that they don’t exist. Or, if they do exist, the documents are different than portrayed.
Second, WMDs have been found in different places in Iraq and reported. On July 7, 2004, the BBC reported U.S. forces seized 1.77 tons of bomb-grade uranium. On the same day, the BBC reported that materials were found which were “ideal for a radioactive dirty bomb.”
On July 2, 2004, the BBC reported that Polish General Dukaczewski was responsible for the purchase of 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin, a nerve agent five times more deadly than sarin gas. The warheads had been buried in the desert, but a cash-hungry informant sold them to Polish troops for $5,000 each.
Bill Clinton’s chief Iraqi expert, Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institution, is unequivocal, “Much remains to be done in the hunt for Iraq’s WMDs.”
Maybe what we should ask is this: Is there any secret these critics shouldn’t know about the Iraqi War? And if they knew every secret and fact, do we think they would share them with us without malice or anger to those they hold in contempt?
John Hayek
Joplin

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[Inland]

1. Cripes, I remember these stories.

All printed as rumors, all later declared unfounded.

Fact is, TODAY the USG admits that no WMD, no active programs for WMD, no facilities to make WMD. We paid hundreds of millions and waited months of exhaustive investigation for that report.

[babylonsister]

4. And the duplicity is believed, and the blood continues to run. nt

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2. cyclosarin, deteriorated, and posed no threat.

"...the US military said the agent was so deteriorated it posed no threat." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3861197.stm

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3. Jello

"But the US military said that while two of the rockets tested positive for sarin, traces of the agent were so small and deteriorated as to be virtually harmless." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3861197.stm

[Catrina]

5. I remember those old 'sarin' stories.

Newsmax loved them, as I recall, but they were quickly debunked. Someone is getting desperate to justify this madness when they have to recycle already debunked stories from several years ago.

[leftofthedial]

6. started off as RW rumors and hate radio talking points

reported as major headline news

disproven within days, with a disclaimer just below the Bob's Brake Service ad on the bottom of page E-32.

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7. My initial response to that BS:

Concerning the cyclosarin warheads: "the US military said the agent was so deteriorated it posed NO THREAT" (emphasis added). "The US military said that while two of the rockets tested positive for sarin, traces of the agent were so small and deteriorated as to be virtually harmless." Scott Ritter told MSSU that before we got into all of this. If anything was left it would be almost jello, you wouldn't want to drink it but it is hardly a WMD. The uranium was "under IAEA seal and control" and had been there locked in that facility since 1992. Since then it has been under UN and US guard, except for that period of time during the US invasion that no one was guarding it. Is this what 32,000 plus people died for? John you had better stick with the "we did it for their freedom" talking point because this just isn't working.