Desert_Eagle
04-14-2006, 2:24 PM
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/10/iraq/main567510.shtml
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2004/01/cheney_wmd_trai.html
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1594
So the engineering experts in the field are telling Bush that these trailers were not being used to make biological weapons but Bush and Cheney decided to go ahead and tell the public "we found 2 trailers used for making biological weapons."
"We know, for example, that prior to our going in that he had spent time and effort acquiring mobile biological weapons labs, and we're quite confident he did, in fact, have such a program. We've found a couple of semi trailers at this point which we believe were, in fact, part of that program. Now it's not clear at this stage whether or not he used any of that to produce or whether he was simply getting ready for the next war. That, in my mind, is a serious danger in the hands of a man like Saddam Hussein, and I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did, in fact, have programs for weapons of mass destruction."
"[T]he reporting that we had prior to the war this time around was all consistent with that -- basically said that he had a chemical, biological and nuclear program, and estimated that if he could acquire fissile material, he could have a nuclear weapon within a year or two."
Dick Cheney seems to forget that right before the war all the UN inspection teams reported absolutely no evidence that Saddam was planning to resume his nuclear weapons program. They didn't have any indication that this might be the case. In fact the administrations claims seem to contradict nearly every UN finding just before the war.
But what do weapons inspectors know compared to the CIA?
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2004/01/cheney_wmd_trai.html
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1594
So the engineering experts in the field are telling Bush that these trailers were not being used to make biological weapons but Bush and Cheney decided to go ahead and tell the public "we found 2 trailers used for making biological weapons."
"We know, for example, that prior to our going in that he had spent time and effort acquiring mobile biological weapons labs, and we're quite confident he did, in fact, have such a program. We've found a couple of semi trailers at this point which we believe were, in fact, part of that program. Now it's not clear at this stage whether or not he used any of that to produce or whether he was simply getting ready for the next war. That, in my mind, is a serious danger in the hands of a man like Saddam Hussein, and I would deem that conclusive evidence, if you will, that he did, in fact, have programs for weapons of mass destruction."
"[T]he reporting that we had prior to the war this time around was all consistent with that -- basically said that he had a chemical, biological and nuclear program, and estimated that if he could acquire fissile material, he could have a nuclear weapon within a year or two."
Dick Cheney seems to forget that right before the war all the UN inspection teams reported absolutely no evidence that Saddam was planning to resume his nuclear weapons program. They didn't have any indication that this might be the case. In fact the administrations claims seem to contradict nearly every UN finding just before the war.
But what do weapons inspectors know compared to the CIA?