posted on October 4, 2003 07:42:49 AM new
In six months of searches, no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons have been found to support the administration's case for going to war.
David Kay has found nothing.
Now, Bush wants to provide Kay with almost a billion dollars to continue the search.
After searching for nearly six months, U.S. forces and CIA experts have found no chemical or biological weapons in Iraq and have determined that Iraq's nuclear program was in only "the very most rudimentary" state, the Bush administration's chief investigator formally told Congress yesterday.
Before the war, the administration said Iraq had a well-developed nuclear program that presented a threat to the United States.
Now, "It clearly does not look like a massive, resurgent program, based on what we discovered," former U.N. weapons inspector David Kay, who heads the government's search, said yesterday after briefing House and Senate intelligence committees in a closed session on his interim report. He said he will need six to nine months to conclude his work, and congressional sources said the administration is requesting an additional $600 million toward the effort to find weapons of mass destruction.
Almost a billion dollars to finance the conclusion of a failed search? If it wasn't so tragic, it would be funny.
posted on October 4, 2003 07:52:33 AM new
In the meantime real weapons are ignored...North Korea, for example...
"Here's a heads-up, idiots everywhere. They aren't working in secret on anything. They are working in the goddamn open! Building NUCLEAR BOMBS! They tell us their progress approximately every three months, "we've kicked out the monitors," they say one month, then "we've reprocessed the spent fuel," a few months later. Will we wait for the wire services to carry a new story headlined, "North Korea launches missile at Hawaii; 1.2 million in grave danger of being completely dead?"
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posted on October 4, 2003 11:32:23 AM new
NK has been posturing for years. The only thing left for them to use, is the threat of nuclear war. Whether they have a bomb to use or not, I personally doubt anything will happen with them. But it is interesting... here's a guy that has starved his own people, like Hussein gassed his own people, and is also a threat to his neighbouring countries, but there's no fervor from Bush & Co. to do anything. What's the difference between Saddam and Kim - Iraq/North Korea?
posted on October 4, 2003 12:08:47 PM new
Everybody's flaunting their nuclear arsenal! Suppose Bush has something to do with that???
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said his country does not rule out a pre-emptive military strike anywhere in the world if the national interest demands it.
He said that Russia faced foreign interference in its internal affairs and instability in neighbouring states as well as classic threats such as the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism and the drugs trade
President Vladimir Putin, who met Mr Ivanov on Thursday, added that the Russian military still possessed a formidable nuclear arsenal.
In an apparent reference to the US-led invasion of Iraq, Mr Ivanov said that the use of force without UN approval could encourage countries to acquire a nuclear potential.
