Iraq WMDs found, according to the BBC? [View All]

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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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