On the "WMDs" that have been found in Iraq

[usregimechange]

John Hayek (Globe, Jan 3) stated that “WMDs have been found” in Iraq. He cited 1.77 tons of uranium. The uranium was under control not by Iraq but by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and had been there locked in that facility under IAEA seal since 1991. The world had “found” this low enriched uranium and removed “all weapon-usable nuclear material (plutonium and high enriched uranium)” from Iraq a decade ago (IAEA, 2000).

The second “WMD” that John mentions were warheads that were found in Iraq that contained cyclosarin. The same source that Hayek cites also notes that “the US military said the agent was so deteriorated it posed no threat” (BBC, July 2nd, 2004).

Is a chemical agent that “posed no threat” and was “virtually harmless” a weapon of mass destruction? It is if your political loyalty necessitates such an assertion.

[0007]

1. Man, I do indeed like your signature line

It sez so much within a few words. I'd like a bumper sticker, but would be afraid to wear it here in Midland Texas.

[usregimechange]

4. Some one has to be the first. thanks...

[NewJeffCT]

2. Didn't Scott Ritter say the same thing?

Any WMD left in Iraq would have long deteriorated into harmless sludge.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. So did Plame's global network, Wilson, and the UN weapons inspectors....

...and they were all subjected to one or more tactics designed to shut them up and/or shut them down.

[usregimechange]

5. Yes, and he said it at our local college in 2001.

[LynnTheDem]

6. Uranium is NOT and never has been a "WMD", under IAEA seal or not.

And NO chemical agent was found in those warheads;

Chemicals Not Found in Iraq Warheads
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24403-2004Jul2.html

NO "WMD" whatsoever have been found; Hussein told the truth, BUSH LIED.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. People keeping telling the same lie

and it draws in a few more every time. So it's worth repeating the lie. It works.

Willfully misleading the public needs to hurt the perpetrator. There needs to be punishment each and every time someone uses a newspaper (or broadcast or whatever) to tell a lie.

Otherwise the "truth" will simply be the lie that was repeated most often.

[freesqueeze]

8. Iraq, Saddam, WMDs, oh my.

Iraq, Saddam, WMDs, oh my.
Iraq, Saddam, WMDs, oh my.
Iraq, Saddam, WMDs, oh my.
Iraq, Saddam, WMDs, oh my.


Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.