Ex-WMD Inspector: Politics Quashed Facts

A year after Bush administration claims about Iraqi "bioweapons trailers" were discredited by American experts, U.S. officials were still suppressing the findings, says a senior member of the CIA-led Iraq inspection team.

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Documents Show Saddam's WMD Frustrations

Exasperated, besieged by global pressure, Saddam Hussein and top aides searched for ways in the 1990s to prove to the world they'd given up banned weapons.

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Weldon: WMD discovery justifies invasion

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Next We Take Tehran

President Bush may or may not order a massive aerial bombardment of Iran later this year. Or he may wait until 2007. Or he may simply escalate a risky confrontation with Iran through covert action and economic sanctions.

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Your Slip Is Showing, Ann

I've been reluctant to name traitors -- but I've got one for you: Ron Klink, some former Democrat Congressman, is blaming the plot to blow up the Sears Tower on the fact that Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction,..Ann Coulter ok, right there. She said it. I didn't.

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Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead | Reuters.com

This is getting extremely scary.

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Gaza militants say fired WMD (chemical-tipped warhead) into Israel city | Reuters.com

Looks like there really ARE terrorists with WMD's in the middle east. GAZA (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.

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Gaza militants say fired chemical-tipped warhead - Reuters

GAZA (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.

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Three Iraq Myths That Won't Quit

It is hard sometimes to know what is real and what is fiction when it comes to the news out of Iraq.

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Democrats Cite Report On Troop Cuts in Iraq

Since the U.S. Senate just voted against two democratic party proposals to put some sort of timeline on future U.S. military activities and redeployments, I can understand the frustration.

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The Real WMD Scandal

From the article: For a season or two the left has had what they thought was the smoking gun for the President and his party - to say he lied to the American people and weapons of mass destruction was what he lied about.

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Determined to be wrong: history of Administration lies to the people

Hume gives us the following quote:Drumheller instantly recognized the source, an Iraqi defector suspected of being mentally unstable and a liar.

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WMDs: The real scandal by Kevin McCullough

"By now much of the nation has finally heard the truth; George Bush never lied about weapons of mass destruction.

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We Found WMD – and It Was Ours

David DeBatto: The bombs had been purchased in the United States in 1988 from what appeared to be a government contractor called The Carlyle Group. I am almost embarrassed now to say that I had not heard of The Carlyle Group at that time so the name meant nothing to me.

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New claim of Iraq WMD 'stockpiles' refers to decrepit pre-1991 stocks

I'm picturing Iraqi forces launching a chemical attack by releasing the contents of hundreds of cans of Pledge and Lysol in the desert. "Mushroom clouds?" Don't worry: Lysol kills all kinds of molds and fungus!

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Belleville News-Democrat: Report: No evidence that Iraq stockpiled

Haven't we been through this already? Several times?

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For Diehards, Search for Iraq's W.M.D. Isn't Over - New York Times

These guys give new meaning to the phrase "right-wing nut jobs"

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Bloggers on the discovery of alleged WMD By Torie Bosch

The significance of the purported discovery of chemical weapons in Iraq has observers debating about what exactly constitutes a WMD. But if bloggers sound distracted today, it's because there's an in-crowd scandal brewing.

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Officials: U.S. didn’t find WMDs, despite claims

Senior U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday they have no evidence that Iraq produced chemical weapons after the 1991 Gulf War, despite recent reports from media outlets and Republican lawmakers.

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Frontline details exactly how Bush administration distorted information to make the case for going to war.

Episode of Frontline that goes beyond innuendo and conspiracy theories, and lays out how the effort to mislead the public was orchestrated.

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If Necessary, Strike and Destroy

"North Korean technicians are reportedly in the final stages of fueling a long-range ballistic missile that some experts estimate can deliver a deadly payload to the United States.

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Santorum debunked over WMD's by FOX NEWS

"And Jim Angle who reported this for Fox News-quotes a defense official who says these were pre-1991 weapons that could not have been fired as designed because they already been degraded.

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Lawmakers Cite Weapons Found in Iraq

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, and Sen.

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AlterNet: DOD disavows Santorum's WMD claims

Santorum and Hoekstra have been trying very hard to tie some 500 Pre-1991 WMDs that we've turned up in Iran to President Bush's origional rational for war.

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For Outgoing Senator Santorum: Top Ten Ways We Know Saddam Did not Have WMD

In the fantasy world of the Hard Right, Senator Rick Santorum and Michigan Representative Pete Hoekstra attempted to make it look like some old pre-1991 shells lying around Iraq with degraded chemicals in them were the dreaded "weapons of mass destruction" that the Bush administr …

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Defense Department Disavows Santorum’s WMD Claims

Today, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Rep.

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Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq

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