On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:29:38 +0000, NOYB wrote:

Except to protect a fellow Baathist regime. Oh year...and except for the
billions of dollars and billions of barrels of oil that Saddam sent to
Assad.

Fellow Baathist? The Syrian and Iraq Baath Parties share a name only.
They have been diametrically opposed, sometimes violently.

http://www.answers.com/topic/ba-ath-party



While you and I may not like the fact that Syria has WMD, as a sovereign
nation, they are completely within their rights to have WMD.

They're concealing the fact that Saddam had WMD...making them complicit in
the deaths of 1500+ American GI's.

And if George W. Bush concealed the fact that Iraq had no WMD?

NOYB wrote:

They're concealing the fact that Saddam had WMD...making them
complicit in
the deaths of 1500+ American GI's.

Hehe!!!!
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. intelligence community was "simply wrong"
in its assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities
before the U.S. invasion, according to a panel created to study those
failures and recommend corrections to prevent them in the future.

"We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost
all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction,"
said a letter from the commission to President Bush. "This was a major
intelligence failure."

The panel -- called the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of
the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction -- formally
presents its report to Bush on Thursday morning.

An October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate warned that Iraq was
pursuing weapons of mass destruction, had reconstituted its nuclear
weapon program and had biological and chemical weapons.

The Bush administration used those conclusions as part of its argument
for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

But the Iraq Survey Group -- set up to look for weapons of mass
destruction or evidence of them in the country -- issued a final report
saying it saw no weapons or no evidence that Iraq was trying to
reconstitute them.

The commission's report said the principal cause of the intelligence
failures was the intelligence community's "inability to collect good
information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what
information it could gather and a failure to make clear just how much
of its analysis was based on assumptions rather than good evidence."

"The single most prominent a recurring theme" of its recommendations is
"stronger and more centralized management of the intelligence
community, and, in general, the creation of a genuinely integrated
community, instead of a loose confederation of independent agencies."

Bush appointed the nine-member commission led by Laurence Silberman, a
senior federal appellate court judge who also served in the Nixon and
Ford administrations, and former Sen. and Virginia Gov. Chuck Robb, a
Democrat.

"basskisser" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

They're concealing the fact that Saddam had WMD...making them
complicit in
the deaths of 1500+ American GI's.

Hehe!!!!

Some reporting indicated that Iraq may have moved biological and chemical
weapons

stockpiles to Syria just prior to the start of the war in March 2003. CIA,
Title Classified (Dec.

13, 2004) (citing one classified intelligence report (March 2003) from a
foreign service). The

security situation along the border between Iraq and Syria prevented the ISG
from conclusively

ruling out the possibility that such weapons were transported across the
border. Interview with

Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence Charles Duelfer
(Oct. 13, 2004).

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Here's the link to the entire report...in case you want to read it for
yourself rather than having the Washington Post interpret it for you:

http://www.wmd.gov/report/wmd_report.pdf

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:36:08 -0500, NOYB wrote:


John McCain sits on the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of
the
United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. I wonder how much
of
the report will make mention of weapons shipped to Syria before the war?
grin

http://www.wmd.gov/about.html

You are flogging a dead horse. The UN Resolutions required Saddam to
disarm. *If* Saddam shipped his weapons off to Syria before the war, he
was disarmed. So, no casus belli.

You seem to be locked into this Syria WMD thing. Syria has WMD. In fact,
their chemical WMD capability is considered unequaled in the middle-east.
I have said this before, there is no reason for Syria to accept Saddam's
second rate WMD. While you and I may not like the fact that Syria has
WMD, as a sovereign nation, they are completely within their rights to
have WMD.

Just to refresh your memory:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0021007-8.html

Delivery systems that are state of the art are what the russians were
removing from Iraq into Syria as well as electronics jamming and missle
systems. Who needs more bacteria or vx gas. ( my guess anyway)

"NOYB" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
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John McCain. March 23, 2005.

http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/printDS/66915.php






John McCain sits on the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the
United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. I wonder how much of
the report will make mention of weapons shipped to Syria before the war?
grin

http://www.wmd.gov/about.html


Obviously, very little:

Some reporting indicated that Iraq may have moved biological and chemical
weapons

stockpiles to Syria just prior to the start of the war in March 2003. CIA,
Title Classified (Dec.

13, 2004) (citing one classified intelligence report (March 2003) from a
foreign service). The

security situation along the border between Iraq and Syria prevented the ISG
from conclusively

ruling out the possibility that such weapons were transported across the
border. Interview with

Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence Charles Duelfer
(Oct. 13, 2004).

ALBUQUERQUE - Sen. John McCain said Tuesday the conclusions of a
commission investigating intelligence failures on weapons of mass
destruction should not lead to new questions about whether the Iraq war
was justified.
"America, the world and Iraq is better off for what we did in bringing
democracy," McCain said.

Even IF America, the world, and Iraq are better off because of the war,
"bringing democracy" was not the repeated, repeated, and repeated reason
that George Bush gave for going to war. It was WMD, WMD, WMD. So, George,
where are the WMDs ??

I know some here believe they are in Syria. Anyone know if the Bush
administration stands behind that theory?