Just to let you know, the author of this article is FOR the war in Iraq.
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I haven't encountered any new news on the nuclear materials finds, and they haven't conclusively reported results of the "is it sarin, is it pesticide, but sarin IS pesticide" find. I did hear this morning that a unit was digging around several trucks found "buried" near Baghdad, whose descriptions seemed to match the "mobile bio labs" Powell spoke of before the UN.
You should know by now the "pro-war" crowd is just as anxious to find WMD as the anti-war crowd is anxious for them not to. Now that the real looking can start, it's only a matter of time.
That said, I like the way he tore apart the "they're gonna plant evidence" paranoid conspiracy theory. Those people need psychiatric help.
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quote:But in fairness, (suggestions that the coalition will manufacture evidence if none exists) flies in the face of what has happened since the start of this war. Each time coalition forces, who are, after all, soldiers and not scientists, have reported a suspected chemical or biological weapons find, it has been the U.S. administration itself that has shot it down within the next few days, following further investigation and testing.
Now, I may make snide remarks about them planting WMDs, but I don't believe they could do it and get away with it. But this columnist seems to say that the Coalition squashing reports of WMD finds - that will obviously turn out to be false - is the same as saying they would never manufacture finds themselves.
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What say we wait for the documents (since that's all they found) to be translated before assuming these "mobile labs" are what Washington wants them to be.
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Does sound pretty odd though, or does anyone here have a habit of burying there car for fun???
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WEll, it looks as though they aren't mobile labs after all. They're mobile something, but it doesn't look like they're chem or bio.
quote:Meanwhile, U.S. military sources Tuesday stepped back from claims made a day earlier that coalition troops had found 11 mobile chemical and biological laboratories buried south of Baghdad.
The 11 cargo containers were filled with new laboratory equipment apparently intended to make conventional weapons, said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Monte Gonzalez, the head of the team brought in to examine them.
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Well, let me go dig up my file cabinet and look up the stuff on the papers there. Why, no, I don't have anything to hide, it is just now SOP to bury the file cabinets....
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I haven't read much about the issue personally, so I'm wondering if any kind of crucial documents or equipment could have been lost in the burning of government buildings in Baghdad and elsewhere...
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I heard, from the news channels, so reliablity is questionable, that the Iraqis kept everything in triplicate or better, so they weren't worried about it too much.
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Syria! Syria! Syria!
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Yes, we'll get to them in due time, let us plant the evidence in Iraq first. You know, all of this takes time to accomplish, so ease off.....
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