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WMD Shell Game?

June 17, 2004

For some strange reason, this hasn't gotten much coverage. The UN's monitoring commission discloses new findings which might well indicate a WMD cover-up by Iraq.

Highlights from the report by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) include discovery in a Rotterdam scrapyard of a radioactive, UN-tagged Iraqi surface-to-air missile engine; more Iraqi surface-to-air missile engines in a Netherlands scrapyard; and satellite photo evidence showing major alterations to known Iraqi weapons sites.

You'd think the high commissars of brand-name journalistic inquiry would be all over the mysterious off-loading of WMD components as the noose tightened on Saddam's regime. Nope, mostly just a few wire services, foreign papers and oddball news sources. And of course bloggers, such as Little Green Footballs and Peeve Farm.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at June 17, 2004 11:18 AM


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And our troops (in this case the Fourth Infantry) are hopping mad about the way this information has been ignored. A recent post in the forums outlines the 20 Iraqi SA-2 rocket engines that just "showed up" at a metal dealer in Jordan, available to the highest bidder. And for months they have been fuming about the obvious incompleteness of "AmbASSador" Joe Wilson's report on uranium oxide (the so-called "yellow cake")which showed up in the Netherlands - that he determined just could not have been from Niger (his former posting) because of the faulty intelligence involved. Then BOB Novak, and the administration leak, blah-blah-blah. The Rotterdam story, at:
http://www2.vrom.nl/pagina.html?id=5911

Posted by: P Scott Cummins at June 17, 2004 05:10 PM

The "mainstream" media have ignored a lot of news worthy items of late. The evidences of Iraqi WMD programs is merely one, albeit an important omission.

Others are: millions of jobs being created in the last several months; declining American casualty level in Iraq (40% decline from April to June); internal political progress in Iraq; reports of successes in foiling terrorist attacks subsequent to 9/11. The list goes on.

Many in the media have declared open warfare against the Bush administration and are determined to shape the news in order to present the Bush administration in as negative light as possible.

Posted by: James J. Na at June 17, 2004 11:47 PM

How many years did Clinton give So-damn Insane to hide his WMD's?

What gets me is how many people jumped on the "there's nothing here" band-wagon... instead of realizing, the WMD's could have been moved.

When you find termite runs on your foundation, do you wait to see a live one in your house before you call Orkin?

Thank you James, for mentioning some of the good things this administration is doing... things that the media ignores. On the Iraqi front, you can see the actions of our coalition in a different light by going to:
http://www.cpa-iraq.org/
Many Iraqi's have phone service, clean water, and or electricity, that never had it before in their entire lives.
There you will also notice that actions by our troops against containees were already being adressed before the media splashed the pictures on television.

Posted by: rross at June 18, 2004 04:49 AM

Someone should right a book about the media mis-coverage of the war. There'd definately be plenty of material.

Posted by: chris collins at June 20, 2004 03:53 PM

By the way, UNMOVIC (!) recently reported that elements of Saddam Hussein's WMD programs were smuggled out of Iraq to surrounding countries.

Did anyone see this in the mainstream media?

I didn't think so.

Posted by: James J. Na at June 24, 2004 12:26 AM

Thanks for all your work on this. God bless.

Posted by: Josef at September 11, 2004 09:08 AM

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