stick that in your pipe and smoke it
by John at 1/12/2005 10:57:00 AM
Search for Banned Arms In Iraq Ended Last Month (Washington Post)
"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."
There this too:
"[E]very suspected site within Iraq has been fully searched, or stripped bare by insurgents and thieves, according to several people involved in the weapons hunt... Satellite photos show that entire facilities have been dismantled, possibly by scrap dealers who sold off parts and equipment to buyers around the world." (my emphasis)
Summing up:
1) Terrorist attacks up
2) Number of deaths due to terrorism up
3) Terrorist recruiting up
4) No WMD or WMD program activities
5) Suspected WMD sites looted
6) Conventional weapon caches looted
7) No previous connection to Al Qaeda
8) Osama bin Laden still at large
8) Torture, rape, and arbitrary detention still common in Iraq
9) Violent crime in Iraq up
10) Civil war ramping up in Iraq
11) Tens of thousands of people unnecessarily dead
Oh yeah, freedom is on the march. Too bad it is bogged down in a quagmire right now.
"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."
There this too:
"[E]very suspected site within Iraq has been fully searched, or stripped bare by insurgents and thieves, according to several people involved in the weapons hunt... Satellite photos show that entire facilities have been dismantled, possibly by scrap dealers who sold off parts and equipment to buyers around the world." (my emphasis)
Summing up:
1) Terrorist attacks up
2) Number of deaths due to terrorism up
3) Terrorist recruiting up
4) No WMD or WMD program activities
5) Suspected WMD sites looted
6) Conventional weapon caches looted
7) No previous connection to Al Qaeda
8) Osama bin Laden still at large
8) Torture, rape, and arbitrary detention still common in Iraq
9) Violent crime in Iraq up
10) Civil war ramping up in Iraq
11) Tens of thousands of people unnecessarily dead
Oh yeah, freedom is on the march. Too bad it is bogged down in a quagmire right now.
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