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February 06, 2006
Still No WMDs?
It has become accepted wisdom in the media that our failure to find evidence of WMDs constitutes "proof" they never existed. The logical fallacy of this argument can be demonstrated by asking a simple question: if you search for your car keys and fail to find them, have you proved they never existed?
Of course not. Yet anti-war zealots continually maintain that it is possible to prove something does not exist by simply failing to locate it. Jack Kelly lists the numerous evidence that WMDs both existed and were moved to Syria just before the Iraq invasion, noting that the conventional wisdom on WMDs may be in for a rough landing:
You haven't heard much about these reports, because they contradict the meme that Saddam either had no WMD, or destroyed it well before the Iraq war began.The captured files of the Iraqi intelligence service, still mostly untranslated, could shed light on what did happen to Saddam's WMD.
John Loftus, a former Justice Department prosecutor, said a civilian contractor who has been among those examining the Mukhabarat files has found audiotapes of meetings in Saddam's office where WMD was discussed. The contractor, a former military intelligence analyst, will make the tapes public Feb. 17 at a conference sponsored by Intelligence Summit, a private group that Mr. Loftus heads.
Mr. Loftus wouldn't disclose the identity of the contractor in advance of the conference, but said his tapes have been verified by the National Security Agency. "This isn't a smoking gun. It's a smoking cannon," he said.
Those who have bet their political futures that Saddam had no WMD may be starting to sweat.
Imagine that...
Posted by Cassandra at February 6, 2006 08:34 AM
Comments
Bush lied, people died! it was all about oil! Revenge for Bush's pappy! There never were any WMD, the Downing Street Memo proves it! We gave Saddam the WMD!
Preemptive strike on any possible Surrender Monkeys who might troll this post. Get their talking points out of the way.
That stuff is somewhere. He had it. We know it. Every intell agency knew it. But he had plenty of time to move it and hide it.
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at February 6, 2006 03:16 PM
Uh, Cass, I lost my car keys and have to use the spare set. Does this mean that when I do find my set, that they will find WsMD, and that until then, Saddam would have used the spare set of WsMd?
Posted by: Crckt at February 6, 2006 04:02 PM
And I am saying that because I DO believe he had them and had a back-up that we were able to prevent him from using.
Posted by: Crckt at February 6, 2006 05:12 PM