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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
I'm going to throw this out there, because I have not personally seen any evidence that has refuted this, which by the way I'm not asserting as gospel.
Iraq moved the weapons out of the country in the days leading up to the war, we have satellite imagery showing massive convoys moving from Iraq to Syria, I personally wouldn't put it past Saddam to do it.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=38581
http://www.2la.org/syria/iraq-wmd.php w/ some satellite imaging to expand http://www.2la.org/syria/wmd.html
Again, I realize there won't be any WMD's found in Iraq, but by all accounts which I have not heard to be refuted, there is satellite imagery of convoys moving from Iraq to Syria, and it honestly wouldn't surprise if Saddam moved the weapons out. |
Mojo_, it does not seem that there is any basis for those reports, and the White House had an interest in keeping them alive, if there was any potential for them to prove reliable, and the WH did not:
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/me.../26/iraq.main/
U.S. study: Iraq likely didn't ship WMD to Syria
Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Posted: 1729 GMT (0129 HKT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It is unlikely Iraq shipped banned weapons material into Syria before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to report released by the Iraq Survey Group, a CIA/Pentagon team searching for Iraqi weapons programs.
In October, the group said that the 1991 Persian Gulf War likely destroyed Iraq's capabilities of producing weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq had none when the United States invaded.
Addenda to the group's final report -- released Monday on the U.S. Government Printing Office's Web site -- threw doubt on that scenario.
"ISG judged that it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to Syria took place," the report said.
The group also said it had been unable to complete its investigation because of security concerns and couldn't rule out an "unofficial" transfer of material.
The report said that 12 years of international sanctions against Baghdad after the Gulf War had left Iraq's scientific community decimated and these experts' skills in a state of "natural decay."
The group added it was unlikely that scientists were capable of re-creating the destroyed weapons programs, meaning Iraq would have possessed little, if anything, to transfer.
"It is worth noting that even if ISG had been able to fully examine all the leads it possessed, it is unlikely that conclusive information would have been found," the report said.
Instead, the report said, detainees interviewed by the group "uniformly denied any knowledge of residual WMD that could have been secreted to Syria."
Charles Duefler, head of the Iraq Survey Group, recommended that many of the detained scientists could be released because they had been cooperative, were no longer a security risk and had no more information to share.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0050112-7.html
Q The President accepts that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, he said back in October that the comprehensive report by Charles Duelfer concluded what his predecessor had said, as well, that the weapons that we all believed were there, based on the intelligence, were not there. And now what is important is that we need to go back and look at what was wrong with much of the intelligence that we accumulated over a 12-year period and that our allies had accumulated over that same period of time, and correct any flaws.
Q I just want to make sure, though, because you said something about following up on additional reports and learning more about the regime. You are not trying to hold out to the American people the possibility that there might still be weapons somewhere there, are you?
MR. McCLELLAN: No, I just said that if there are -- if there are any other reports, obviously, of weapons of mass destruction, then people will follow up on those reports. I'm just stating a fact. .................
......Q Two follow-ups. There's been quite a bit of talk that Syria might have hidden some of these weapons of mass destruction. Is the government of Syria cooperating at all in the search for WMD?
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, you have the report from Charles Duelfer. You can go and look at that report in terms of addressing those issues, and I think the President has spoken to the whole issue of weapons of mass destruction. Obviously, if there are any other reports that come to people's attention, they'll follow up on those reports.............
............. Q Scott, did the White House intend to, at any point, come out and tell the American people that the search for WMD was over?
MR. McCLELLAN: I think that the President addressed this issue back in October. Maybe you weren't there for when he talked about it. But Charles Duelfer is the one who was overseeing these efforts and he's now back here. He's continuing to wrap up his work. I think it's up to him to make those determinations about when he says everything is concluded.
Q And understanding that the White House --
MR. McCLELLAN: I mean, there is still some wrap-up work that he's doing; there's still some -- the Iraq Survey Group continues to operate in Iraq under the multinational force command. And much --
Q The search is over? Is the search --
MR. McCLELLAN: Well, I think -- I think that others have already addressed that much of their physical search has -- that their physical search has essentially ended, yes, but that they continue to go through documents. So they're -- some of their work continues, because there are thousands and thousands of pages of documents that they were able to recover that were part of the basis for the previous report that Charles Duelfer released. And it was -- the President talked about it at that time, it was a comprehensive look at the regime and the regime's intentions and the regime's capabilities.
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Mojo_, Bush seems to have more at stake regarding this issue. You give me the impression that you are more reluctant now to accept the WMD report of the ISG now, than Bush himself was during the above press briefing 4 months ago, on Jan. 12. Why? |