Declassified Document: Iraq WMD

[Drakonix]

Declassified document on Chemical WMD found in Iraq since 2003/2004

(.pdf attachment, 128KB)
downloaded from foxnews.com

[theknife]

gee drak, fox news gets contradicted here by...fox news?

Transcript:

COLMES: Congressman, Senator, it’s Alan Colmes. Senator, the Iraq Survey Group — let me go to the Duelfer Report — says that Iraq did not have the weapons our intelligence believed were there. And Jim Angle reported this for Fox News quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they already been degraded. And the official went on to say these are not the WMD’s this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had and not the WMD’s for which this country went to war. So the chest beating at this Republicans are doing tonight thinking this is a justification is not confirmed by the defense department.

SANTORUM: I’d like to know who that is. The fact of the matter is, I’ll wait and see what the actual Defense Department formally says or more important what the administration formally says.

http://images1.americanprogress.org/...od.320.240.mov

apparently, invading iraq was, and still is, a dumb idea.

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Only now it's dumb because they had wmd's, yep.

[Drakonix]

Only now it's dumb because they had wmd's, yep.

LOL, It certainly appears that way.

First, there was endless bitching because "No WMD's were found". Now, there is still bitching after the "No WMD's" lie is exposed.

Sure glad I am not President Bush, anything the poor guy does isn't good enough for Democrats.

The real reason for the criticism is simply because President Bush is a conservative Republican. Liberal Democrats will do anything to discredit the President and other Republicans so they can get back into power and tax-and-spend on social programs until the United States is destroyed.

As I previously stated in other posts, WMD's have been found. We know for a fact Saddam had them because he used them on his own people. Further, at least one sarin gas shell was exploded in an IED. The (liberal) media has been suppressing discovery of WMD and other positive gains accomplished by the coalition forces.

The FAX I have posted shows that the liberal press has LIED about WMD's being discovered in Iraq. These chemical weapons ARE WMD and were NOT destroyed prior to the invasion.

Ousting Saddam was only one of the goals for the invasion of Iraq. Dealing with terrorism is another.

For anyone who does not know why the United States is in Iraq, and would like to learn:

Recommended viewing:
(Links are for amazon.com, but the materials are probably available elsewhere)
Buried in the Sand - The Deception of America (WARNING: Graphic and disturbing images)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...v=glance&n=130
Netflix also has this video for rent. Places like Blockbuster probably will not have it.

Recommended reading:
Prophet of Doom: Islam's Terrorist Dogma in Muhammad's Own Words
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097...Fencoding=UTF8

Tea With Terorrists: Who They Are, Why They Kill
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097...Fencoding=UTF8

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http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/

Key Findings:

Saddam Husayn so dominated the Iraqi Regime that its strategic intent was his alone. He wanted to end sanctions while preserving the capability to reconstitute his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) when sanctions were lifted.

Saddam's primary goal from 1991 to 2003 was to have UN sanctions lifted, while maintaining the security of the Regime. He sought to balance the need to cooperate with UN inspections - to gain support for lifting sanctions - with his intentions to preserve Iraq's intellectual capital for WMD with a minimum of foreign intrusiveness and loss of face.

The introduction of the Oil-For-Food program (OFF) in late 1996 was a key turning point for the Regime. OFF rescued Baghdad's economy from a terminal decline created by sanctions. The Regime quickly came to see that OFF could be corrupted to acquire foreign exchange both to further undermine sanctions and to provide the means to enhance dual-use infrastructure and potential WMD-related development.

By 2000-2001, Saddam had managed to mitigate many of the effects of sanctions and undermine their international support.

Saddam wanted to recreate Iraq's WMD capability - which was essentially destroyed in 1991 - after sanctions were removed.

Saddam aspired to develop a nuclear capability - in an incremental fashion, irrespective of international pressure and the resulting economic risks - but he intended to focus on ballistic missile and tactical chemical warfare (CW) capabilities.

Iraq Survey Group (ISG) judges that events in the 1980's and early 1990's shaped Saddam's belief in the value of WMD. In Saddam's view, WMD helped to save the Regime multiple times. He believed that during the Iran-Iraq war chemical weapons had halted Iranian ground offensives and that ballistic missile attacks on Tehran had broken its political will. Similarly, during Desert Storm, Saddam believed WMD had deterred Coalition Forces from pressing their attack beyond the goal of freeing Kuwait. WMD had even played a role in crushing the Shi'a revolt in the south following the 1991 cease-fire.

The former Regime had no formal written strategy or plan for the rivival of WMD after sanctions. Neither was there an identifiable group of WMD policy makers or planners separate from Saddam. Instead, his lieutenants understood WMD revival was his goal from their long association with Saddam and his infrequent, but firm, verbal comments and directions to them.

[theknife]

don't forget the addendum:

WMD Leftovers. There continue to be reports of WMD in Iraq. ISG has found that such reports are usually scams or misidentification of materials or activities. A very limited number of cases involved the discovery of old chemical munitions produced before 1990. These types of reports (particularly scams) will likely continue for some time and local authorities will have to judge which merit further investigation.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/note.html