Still no mass weapons, no ties to 9/11, no truth

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/12/17/still_no_mass_weapons_no_ties_to_911_no_truth/

Still no mass weapons, no ties to 9/11, no truth

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THE INVASION was still a lie. The capture of Saddam Hussein changes nothing about that. There were too many forked tongues in the road to his lair. The way we removed the dictator, we became a global dictatorship.
No major reason for the war has been proven. The deadly WMDs became weapons of mysterious disappearance. In August 2002, Vice President Cheney said: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."

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With no weapons, no ties, and no truth, the capture of Saddam was merely the most massive and irresponsible police raid in modern times. We broke in without a search warrant. Civilian deaths constituted justifiable homicide. America was again above the law. We have taught the next generation that many wrongs equal a right. In arrogance, we boasted, "We got him!" The shame is that we feel none for how we got him. The capture of this dictator, driven by the poison of lies, turned America itself into a dictator.

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Geez, the newspapers are getting really "brazen" with the stuff that they print nowdays, aren't they?

[Myra]

1. Yup. Hope they're even more "brazen" when the head WMD hunter quits.

In defeat.

"Chief of Weapons Hunt in Iraq May Leave

By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer

"...David Kay, a former U.N. weapons inspector, was named by the CIA (news - web sites) in June to lead the search for weapons of mass destruction. His appointment, and the creation of his operation, the Iraq Survey Group, was supposed to be the key to finding the weapons Iraq long denied having.

Kay returned to the United States last week and on Thursday, a U.S. intelligence official in Washington said he was considering quitting his post...Weapons hunters are spending more time on base, intelligence experts have been reassigned to work on the counterinsurgency and the man leading a so-far unsuccessful search for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons is thinking of stepping down.

A nine-month search for the weapons of mass destruction President Bush (news - web sites) said he went to war to destroy has been conducted by a succession of U.S. teams that have all failed to find any chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.
The lack of evidence has led critics to suggest the Bush administration either mishandled or exaggerated its knowledge of Iraq (news - web sites)'s alleged arsenal..."Now we're lucky if there's a mission once a week around here," he said...
The weapons hunt is staffed by more than 1,000 intelligence analysts, interrogators and translators who pore over documents, investigate suspect sites and conduct interviews with Iraqis.

"It's probably time to call it quits," said Hans Blix, the former chief U.N. weapons inspector, whose teams were given one-third of the time the United States has already spent looking for weapons."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=5&u=/ap/20031218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_weapons_hunt

(Woah. There's good jobs program for the US. Just hire everyone
to "hunt" for WMD. 1000 people that work once a week! Schweet.)

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2. Olbermann just reported this too...

has anyone seen this reported anywhere else? And, will anyone other than we braniacs here at DU get the irony of yet another Bush apointee leaving? I think I heard Keith say something about spending time w/ the family. Hmmm, sounds vaguely familiar...