Remember all the "WMD FOUND" headlines at the start of the war?

[Beaverhausen]

Whenever these ammunition sites were found and videotaped we were told they were WMDs.

I had a deja vu yesterday seeing the video from Al QaQaa.

Wonder if they regret sending the reporters in with the troops.

[Jesus H. Christ]

1. I remember that.

I bet if one checked the archives there would be plenty of threads on the subject.

I wonder if anybody predicted that Bush's incompetence would let all those explosives fall into the hands of the insurgents.

[tridim]

2. I remember reports of WMD raining down on Kuwait

and no I'm not thinking of Poppy's war.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. This bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will blow your mind

http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2003/ja03/ja03rothstein.html

Calendar of errors


This one's for the history books, folks. While it's always possible that some Iraqi weapons of mass destruction or WMD?which posed such an immediate threat to the United States that the Bush administration was compelled to invade that country may some day be found, so far the weapons have proved elusive. Just for the record, (and in case in a few years no one can believe what happened, or the story becomes confused with the plot of a Marx Brothers movie), here?s a representative sample of reports from the U.S. and British news media since the search for Iraq's WMD began:

April 7: The Washington Post relays the Pentagon announcement that it has found the 'smoking gun'-the 101st Airborne has located a large cache of chemical weapon-laden missiles southwest of Baghdad; buried 'bioweapons labs' are also reported found.

April 10: U.S. military commanders announce they have secured the Tuwaitha nuclear facility.

April 11: U.S. military commanders reveal that before April 10, Tuwaitha, a site known to contain various radioactive materials, was left unguarded for days. During that time Iraqi civilians looted the facility, almost certainly carrying away contaminated materials.

April 12: The Guardian reports that the U.S. and British governments have rejected the idea that experienced U.N. weapon inspectors should return to Iraq. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that Saddam Hussein?s science adviser, Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saadi has surrendered, but insists Iraq had no WMD.

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