Unfortunately, I'm not in a position to verify or debunk all the
claims made by Timmerman in the earlier WMD article. However, the
following is a direct quote from Charles Duelfer, head of the Iraqi
Survey Group, in his October 6, 2004 testimony to Congress:
"I still do not expect that militarily significant
WMD stocks are cached in Iraq."
This appeared AFTER the Timmerman article, and is not taken from the
mainstream media. I got it direct from the US military at
http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/congress/duelfer_6oct04.pdf.
I will also say that I did hear in the mainstream media that some
weapons were found, but that these were small leftovers from the pre-
1991 period. This seems consistent with the Duelfer report.
In general, I prefer to get my facts (but not my opinions) from the
mainstream media. On the internet, you can find "evidence" for just
about anything. Aside from "evidence" that Saddam and al Qaeda were
much more of a threat than poor fools like me believe, we can also
find "evidence" that 9/11 was a huge government conspiracy - a
contention that I find equally off base. I really believe that if
either of these contentions were true, they would percolate up into
the mainstream media.
Marc
Starchild, I am confident that we could find very toxic substances
and
biological organisms in every city in America in some quantity.
Ajar of
tomatoes gone bad with botulism would probably suffice as a
precursor to
WMD..
.
From: "Starchild" <sfdreamer@...>
To: <lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 2:40 AM
Subject: [lpsf-discuss] Re: Iraqi Documents Show al-Qaida Ties
Marc,
Well, actually, yes -- I *do* think the mainstream media have
largely suppressed information that some weapons of mass destruction
were found in Iraq. As the very article you link below explains in
credible detail, the finds simply were not large or sensational
enough to change the conventionally-received wisdom that "WMDs were
not found." Maybe they were not discovered in sufficient quantities
to establish that Saddam's possession of them yet posed a serious
threat at the time of the invasion, and this may mean it's still
fair
game to charge the Bush administration of having been deceptive in
that respect, but they *were* found. Do you disagree?
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
> Starchild
>
> Kenneth Timmerman, author or the Newsmax article you posted,
> informed us in 2004 that Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction have
> been found. Seehttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?
> ARTICLE_ID=38213. Apparently, the mainstream media have also
> succeeded in suppressing this important revelation.
>
> I couldn't and wouldn't exclude the possibility that members of
> Saddam Hussein's regime communicated with al Qaeda terrorists.
I'm
> sure a lot of bad actors on the international stage have spoken to
> al Qaeda. The more important question is whether a secular Iraqi
> despot could meaningfully cooperate with the religious zealots of
> al Qaeda. I think it should take a lot more than the words of
this