The New Lefty Meme?
Some are trying to claim that what's been found in Iraq aren't really WMDs. Well, here's Donald Rumsfeld, being interview on the Hugh Hewitt show.
What has been announced is accurate, that there have been hundreds of canisters or weapons of various types found that either currently have sarin in them or had sarin in them, and sarin is dangerous. And it's dangerous to our forces, and it's a
concern.
So obviously, to the extent we can locate these and destroy them,
it is important that we do so. And they are dangerous. Anyone -- I'm
sure General Casey or anyone else in that country would be concerned if they got in the wrong hands.
They are weapons of mass destruction . They are harmful to human
beings. And they have been found. And that had not been by Saddam
Hussein, as he inaccurately alleged that he had reported all of his
weapons . And they are still being found and discovered.
What has been announced is accurate, that there have been hundreds of canisters or weapons of various types found that either currently have sarin in them or had sarin in them, and sarin is dangerous. And it's dangerous to our forces, and it's a
concern.
So obviously, to the extent we can locate these and destroy them,
it is important that we do so. And they are dangerous. Anyone -- I'm
sure General Casey or anyone else in that country would be concerned if they got in the wrong hands.
They are weapons of mass destruction . They are harmful to human
beings. And they have been found. And that had not been by Saddam
Hussein, as he inaccurately alleged that he had reported all of his
weapons . And they are still being found and discovered.
posted by LadybugUSA at 5:50 PM
7 Comments:
You know, I don't think Carol reads any of our comments.
I remember a while back Carol posited that the real WMD were shipped out of Iraq on the eve of the war, probably to Syria. Don't you think we should go into Syria to find out, Carol?
If we do, they'll definitely need your help tromping around Damascus as it will unfortunately coincide with our launching of a westward offensive toward Tehran. And then there's Pyongyang.
Oh my, so many stones to turn over.
Do you have any younger siblings? Or nieces and nephews who can drive a Humvee? Things are gonna get a lot busier with this preemption thing.
"eastward offensive" (I've always been east-west dyslexic.)
You guys simply can't stand it when one (many) of your "established facts" turns out to be wrong!
I love it!
Try this link:
http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2006/06/back-story.html
"Chief weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, has now issued a comprehensive report that confirms the earlier conclusion of David Kay that Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there."
George W. Bush
October 2004
It must be an extremely potent meme as even the President seems to have bought in on it.
On Salient Oversight wrote, "You know, I don't think Carol reads any of our comments."
Sometimes she does. For example, there was this one time that Carol lied about a speech by Ronald Reagan in an attempt to make me look bad. You can read the exchange here.
It struck me as kind of funny (in both the "haha" and the "strange" sense of the word) that she would trash her purported hero to score petty points on her blog.
There are also the cases where Carol accused me of lowering the standard of debate here by using the phrase "plate of poo."
If, on the other hand you are wondering whether Carol ever lets the facts get in the way of her mimeographing of right wing talking points--the answer is no. She just keeps dishing up the same old plates of poo for Greg and others like him to lap up.
Just to keep a full accounting, these "WMD" were discussed in the Deulfer report. Here's the relevant passage...
While a small number of old, abandoned chemical munitions have been discovered, ISG judges that Iraq unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991. There are no credible Indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical munitions thereafter, a policy ISG attributes to Baghdad’s desire to see sanctions lifted, or rendered ineffectual, or its fear of force against it should WMD be discovered.
The President agreed that these were not the weapons we thought were there.
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