Bob Crantz is right!!!

AP NS June 21st, 2004
US Soldiers and weapon specialists using specially trained dogs broke into an
underground bunker which contained over 3 tons of explosive powder. Later, this
report was amended as the powder was actually affixed to paper strips for use
in toy cap guns. There was no word from Powel on how the cap guns might have
been used by Saddam.

Sometimes Bob swerves into today's actual news, even when he doesn't
mean to do it. For Bob and some others, if "news" doesn't foment Bush-
hatred it didn't happen.

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Regular DoD News Briefing
Presenter: Lawrence Di Rita, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Public Affairs
Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:47 p.m. EDT
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcrip...0624-1483.html


Q Larry, the head of the Iraq Survey Group, Charlie Duelfer, told Fox
today that his team has found a dozen artillery shells and rockets that
confirmed contained sarin or mustard gas. Now, you talked previously
about the two shells that were unexploded in those IEDs, and you
pointed (out) that they were from the first gulf war, dated back to
that time, and this new discovery is supposed to date back as well. Is
there a feeling that they're not a threat or that they still couldn't
be used as weapons of terror?

MR. DI RITA: Well, first of all, Charlie in the ISG report to the
director of Central Intelligence -- and I wouldn't want to try and
characterize what he may have said. I saw a transcript of some remarks
he did provide, and he did talk about there's a lot of questions about
these shells. There was, in fact, an obligation that Saddam had to
declare what he was holding, and we know that he only declared a small
percentage of what he had previously reported. So, I mean, several
hundred tons of these things were unaccounted for. But again, there's
more questions that need to be resolved, and I wouldn't want to try and
characterize, you know, how these ultimately will be disposed -- in
terms of what the disposition of these things is.

But the fact is that if we've got that kind of weapon activity -- I
think Mr. Duelfer also spoke about what he is starting to see as a
thirst for the insurgents -- possible attempts by them to either get
control of the knowledge, the database, the knowledge base that exists
in that country -- scientists, et cetera. And we know just through
historical example that these groups have a thirst for weapons of mass
destruction.

So, I mean, I would say yes, it is something that people need to be
mindful of, and I know that they are.

Q I mean, do you have specific indications that the Zarqawi terrorist
network is trying to make or get their hands on weapons of mass
destruction to be used against the coalition in Iraq?

MR. DI RITA: Well, we knew before the war that Zarqawi was involved in
Ansar al-Islam, and Ansar al-Islam was very much involved in the
production of at least toxic poisons, if not chemical weapons. So, I
mean -- all I'm saying is that we know that Mr. Zarqawi has
demonstrated a desire for at least toxins and poison weapons. Whether
or not these weapons in particular, I'm not aware of any specific
intelligence, and we wouldn't talk about --

GEN. RODRIGUEZ: No, no specific intelligence to answer that question.

NO WMD FOUND