Who Says There Were No WMDs in IRAQ?
By Doug Edelman (11/06/05)
While it is true that no assembled nuclear weapons or launch ready chemical/biological weapons have been found, there is no truth to the disinfomation propogated by the mainstream media which postulates there were no WMDs and that Saddam's stockpiles were all destroyed after Gulf War One.
The fact is that many component parts of these weapons have been found – and they even got some mention in the press. For example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3872201.stm
The US has revealed that it removed more than 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material from Iraq in a secret operation last month.
"This operation was a major achievement," said US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham in a statement.
He said it would keep "potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists".
Along with 1.77 tons of enriched uranium, about 1,000 "highly radioactive sources" were also removed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081300530.html
BAGHDAD, Aug. 13 -- U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday.
Some of the radioactive materials were in powdered form which could be used for wide dispersal in a so called "dirty bomb"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120137,00.html
"The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq, told reporters in Baghdad. "The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a U.S. force convoy."
Why are we continually subjected to the drone that there were no WMD and that Bush lied (though the same intelligence he relied upon was cited by Clinton, Kerry and many other Liberal Democrats and was used as justification of Clinton's bombing of Iraq's "chemical, biological & nuclear capabilities")?
When are the American Public going to hold the mainstream media accountable to report things as they really are?
Until they do, it is up to the alternative media to challenge the disinformation.
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