Search for Banned Arms In Iraq Ended Last Month

[gldstwmn]

Critical September Report to Be Final Word

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 12, 2005; Page A01

The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq has come to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. The top CIA weapons hunter is home, and analysts are back at Langley.

In interviews, officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas.

Four months after Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials, a senior intelligence official said the findings will stand as the ISG's final conclusions and will be published this spring.

President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials asserted before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, had chemical and biological weapons, and maintained links to al Qaeda affiliates to whom it might give such weapons to use against the United States.

Full article at:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Jan11.html

[estranged4life]

couldnt find their asses if they stood naked over a mirror and looked down at the reflection

Besides, I have all the WMD's ...Just awaiting to lob 'em at those annoying asshats on the upcoming "American Idiotic Idol" season

[DeeGeMe]

Okay--here's something else to ponder. Do you realize that four people at CBS News lost their jobs over the Memogate scandal but no one in the Bush administration lost their jobs for taking us to war on false premises, or conducting a half-assed war which has killed at least 100,000 innocent Iraqi civillians; or for inadequately arming our armed forces for urban combat and a prolonged war there which has led to over 1,000 US combat deaths?

And on edit: And when was the last time we had a raised terror alert? Gee, it sure wasn't on New Year's Eve like every New Year's Eve since 2001. In fact, we haven't heard a whole hell of a lot about the terrorist alert level since Shrub was re-elected now have we? Did the terrorist threat just magically go away when he was elected? Wake up sheeple!