[Loser]

Originally posted by oleg:
Now we know Iraq did NOT have any WMD whatsoever.
Public was duped by Bush & Blair. If I had any doubts, then none anymore.

I hope someone at least read that article.

they had consistently found targets identified by Washington to be inaccurate, or to have been looted and burned.

That doesn't mean nothing was there, just that it was destroyed.

The force will hand over to a new team, the Iraq Survey Group.

The matter is still being investigated, just by a different group. Likely a group more suited to the long term work it will take to actually find these things or conclusively prove they are not there.

"Why are we doing any planned targets?" said Army Chief Warrant Officer Richard L Gonzales, leader of Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, reports the Washington Post.

"Answer me that. We know they're empty."

This guy knows why we didn't find anything. That pulled team was only looking in sites the U.S. knew of from before the war. Saddam's men would have had to have been fools not to move things that had been sitting there that long.

This kind of jump-on-what-you've-got behavior reminds me of some Bible-belt fundamentalist pointing at every failed attempt to pin down a 'missing link' as proof that evolution is bunk and as reason to teach creationism in school.

It's the same mistake being made by the other side. Every vague chance of an NBC (nuclear/biological/chemical) site is being reported as a 'find' before the determination could possibly be made. Both sides need to wait until word is really in. One way or the other the matter will not be decided before the passage of many moons.

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[ May 12, 2003, 16:55: Message edited by: Loser ]