MSNBC - Report: Iraq had no WMD, only intentions
Does this really come as a surprise to anyone? Anybody?
September 17, 2004
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The Staff was really just a big stick…Anyway, it was capped by an elaborate headpiece with a carving of the sun at the top. What you had to do was take the Staff to a special map room in Tanis--it had the whole city laid out in miniature on the floor. When you placed the Staff in a certain spot in this room, at a certain time of day, the sun would shine through a hole here in the headpiece and then send a beam of light down here—to the map--giving you the location of the Well of the Souls...
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Don Rumsfeld?
Evidently it's as hard to get WMDs in Iraq as rose petals to throw at your liberators.
Oh, and check out the cognitive dissonance on the NYT website: underneath the headline "Iraq Study Finds Desire for Arms, but Not Capacity", we have the summary "A new report is expected to conclude that Iraq had a clear intent to produce illicit weapons if U.N. sanctions were lifted." Do the people who write these summaries read the articles? Or at least the headlines?
One last highlight: Bush is expected to talk about how this shows Hussein "sought" WMD. There are two senses of the word sought: to actively pursue and to abstractly desire as a long-term goal. The former is the sense the administration harked on again and again during the buildup, and is the sense Bush will no doubt imply in speeches he gives over the next month. But the report clearly indicates the latter sense.
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