Show me one piece of verifiable evidence that they intentiionally misled us
gonz said:Show me one piece of verifiable evidence that they intentiionally misled us
A.B.Normal said:Before the War any evidence such as Satellite photos of a guarded enclosure was rebuked as normal activity ,instead of defending their evidence they simply pulled something else out of their ass(a meeting in Nigeria as an example) ,only to have it discounted too.Their continuence to produce evidence they weren't willing/able to defend says volumes ,unless you have your head in the sand.IMHO
Squiggy said:Are you totally discarding Powell's appearence before the UN in which he portrayed an Iranian's 10 year old term paper as current intelligence and proof that Iraq had these weapons?
Bush's little buddy said:We had this "term paper" thing worked out a year ago.
Claim:
Secretary of State Colin Powell released satellite shots of a weapons factory at Taji purporting to show that the site had been cleaned up before the arrival of UN inspectors.
Reality
The chief UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, said the photos could show routine movement at the plant.
"There are still millions of documents that have yet to be examined, thousands of scientists and former government officials yet to be thoroughly debriefed, and countless possible hiding sites which have yet to be searched," the senior intelligence official said. "We find it puzzling that those who say the intelligence community reached its conclusions on limited evidence are reaching opposite conclusions on even less."
He has reported finding evidence that Iraqi scientists were working until the eve of the invasion to produce weapons using the poison ricin and that Mr. Hussein maintained a "clandestine network of laboratories" that could conceivably have been used to produce lethal biological agents.
Gonz said:Show me one piece of verifiable evidence that they intentiionally misled us & I'll lead the charge. Until then, I believe Bush was acting with the best interest of the USA in mind.
An interim report by Dr. Kay last October said that Iraq had continued "weapons of mass destruction program-related activities." President Bush used the same language in his State of the Union address earlier this month. Dr. Kay has also said that while maintaining an infrastructure to produce biological weapons, Iraq "didn't have large-scale production under way."
In the interview last October, the senior intelligence officials described the human intelligence as providing "brand new information" beginning in 2000 about mobile laboratories. They said an analysis based on the descriptions provided by the human sources suggested that the laboratories were capable of producing biological weapons at a high rate. At least one of the human sources had reported that Iraq "had actually done such production."
"We took that seriously as a biological weapon capability that exists," one of the intelligence officials said. "In our view what that means was we thought they had probably produced agent and weapons and had them sitting around. Did we know that? No."
Still, the official said: "What we had was, we thought, a rather competent judgment that they in fact had taken the program on and produced weapons and agent."
Gonz said:Over 12 years of playing hide & seek, you bet your ass I was ready. I was ready 10 years ago. After 9/11 I wanted to nuke the entire region.
Today-nothing has changed. Nothing except I see light at the end of the tunnel & there's no reason to think it's a train.
How many were you willing to allow to die, unarmed, before it was okay?
by the way
Several inspections have taken place ... in relation to mobile production facilities," Dr Blix told the meeting, which was being followed by a debate among foreign ministers and ambassadors. "No evidence of proscribed activities has so far been found."
Indeed, Dr. Kay and the Senate Intelligence Committee have concluded that while Mr. Hussein had ordered spending at scattered nuclear research operations in recent years, the sanctions had taken an enormous toll. Inspectors found a program that existed mostly on paper, save for a few blueprints and centrifuge parts that Mahdi Obeidi, an Iraqi scientist, dug up from his garden. Dr. Obeidi, who has been moved to the United States, reported that the parts had been buried for 12 years and that sanctions had made it virtually impossible to breathe new life into a once sophisticated program.