About that Alleged Chemical Weapons Plant Found in Iraq. It was Actually Discovered 12 years ago, Mr. Bush. Also, Who Will be Planting WMD If Saddam Doesn't Have Them?

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From a March 23rd CNN article:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/23/sprj.irq.iraqi.plant/index.html

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pentagon officials on Sunday said the U.S. military has secured a facility in southern Iraq that may have been used to produce chemical weapons.

The officials cautioned that it was not clear what suspect materials may still be at the plant, which is located in Najaf, some 90 miles south of Baghdad."

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From a BuzzFlash Reader:

Buzz,

The "discovery" of the "huge chemical weapons factory" in Najaf is not a discovery. This facility has been known about since 1991 (witness below). "You do the math"

...Summary: [deleted] Several sites in Iraq with the capability to produce and store BW weapons. Although the capability exists, no evidence of current production or storage was found. Enclosures. Text 1. Background [deleted] suspected biological warfare sites. Among the sites were the Al-Kindi company, An-Najaf, Taji, the Serum and Vaccine institute, the
Agriculture Research and Water Resources Center, and the Ibn Haithan institute....

Source: GulfLINK, "Suspect BW Sites in Iraq," DIA, October 1991, File: 961031_950719_60210003_92d.txt.

Leith Elder

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Comments from another BuzzFlash Reader:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/889489.asp?0cv=CB10&cp1=1

Last paragraph "Victoria Clarke, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said during a televised briefing at the Pentagon yesterday that the administration knows about “a number of sites” where Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. Clarke refused to provide any estimate of how many sites the United States knows of, even when she was asked, “More than 10? Less than a hundred?”"

If we knew of "a number of sites" why the hell didn't we inform the UN inspectors?

Linda

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Comments from another BuzzFlash Reader:

After reading the March 20, 2003 article in the Washington Post titled "U.S. Reaps New Data On Weapons," I am convinced that there is an urgent need for immediate action on the part of the international community to keep the United Nations involved in the search for and clean up of any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This is the only way that the world will have credible information after the fact about Iraq's weapon's programs.

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57066-2003Mar19.html

To do this, an international email, fax, letter writing, and/or petition campaign is needed that targets the heads of state and the U.N. delegations of all member nations of the U.N. I urge you to get involved and make it a priority of your organization to work with others to start such a campaign. The timing of this is very important. If this is not done immediately, the chance will be missed to get unbiased inspectors into Iraq.

Cynthia Salwen

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A quote from the Washington Post article:

"A very important political component is if you find these things, how do you establish the proof of that to the satisfaction of 35 foreign ministries and those of you in the media?" said Jay Davis, who led the Defense Threat Reduction Agency until 2001 and has continued to consult on the Iraqi disarmament plan. "A large number of conspiracy theorists all over the world will say the U.S. government has planted all that stuff."

In a twist that could complicate the effort, the White House has decided, for now, to assign no role in the disarmament effort to the key U.N. agencies that were charged by the Security Council with carrying out the search for banned weapons. As recently as the last week of February, U.S. and U.N. officials said, the State Department asked the leading inspection agency, the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, known as UNMOVIC, and the International Atomic Energy Agency for help in the postwar dismantling of Iraq's remaining long-range missiles and nuclear, biological, chemical and missile weapons programs.

But early this month, the White House reversed course, saying it was a military operation and would remain one for a long time to come, not suitable for civilians. Officials said the U.N. agencies could be given a role later. Two officials said the U.N. agencies would not likely be invited to participate until the United States was ready to turn over dual-use biological or chemical sites for long-term monitoring. U.N. sources said the IAEA believes it has ongoing legal authority over former Iraqi nuclear facilities, regardless of a change in government."

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From a Recent BuzzFlash.com Reader Commentary:

Buried treasure: Washington Post discloses US cheated on inspections - and MORE!

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/03/21_treasure.html

CONCLUSION. This article tells us that the Inspections were always a farce and a set-up, at least as viewed by us. First because we were not interested in disarmament in the first place, or we would have planned for it - rather than planning to attack Iraq for a year before we got around to dealing with disarmament. And secondly, because we sabotaged the very inspections that we insisted on being held. We are furthermore going to supplant the UN's legitimate role in post-war inspections and replace it with a team of people who spied for us on the previous set of sham UN inspections (which, please notice, after 2 years of spying had STILL FAILED to come up with the "goods.") Not only will this be dishonest, it will be spitting in the face of whatever Iraqi authorities remain standing for they all know what preceded Clinton's 70 hour cruise-missile strike of Baghdad in 1998 was information obtained from this espionage. The whole thrust of the new "inspections" team they are setting up is only to come up with a "smoking gun," and fast. It is all appearances, all fakery.

We are faced with a raging flood of disinformation. Each of us must develop tactics to keep our heads above water.

No non-military personnel on these so-called inspection teams. No outsiders to verify if WMD are actually found. With this administration, that's a likely formula for planted WMD. Otherwise, why wouldn't the U.N. inspectors be part of the team? Why wouldn't journalists be brought along?

When a police officer shoots an unarmed man, it is known that some crooked cops put a "throw down" gun in the hand of the dead victim. One can only imagine how many "throw down" WMD the Bush Cartel "WMD inspection team" is caring around with them. Maybe they even have some anthrax from the U.S. military batch that was used to try and kill Democrats and members of the "liberal" media in the fall of 2001. (This is not some crazy conspiracy. In case you have forgotten, the homemade anthrax terrorist used a strain that came from a U.S. military lab. Before this was known, the Bush Cartel implied that, you guessed it, Saddam might be behind the domestic anthrax attacks. Can't imagine why they would do something like that, can you?)

BuzzFlash Note: Let the planting of WMD by the Bush Cartel secretive "investigation" team begin, if Saddam doesn't actually have a few leftovers! If the Bush Cartel wants the world to know about Iraq's alleged WMD, why don't they invite journalists and U.N. investigators to join this secretive WMD "search" team? Good question, isn't it?

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