Weapons that were uncovered in Iraq. Courtesy of our "Allies"
As we were saying, you just never know what sort of hidden weapons caches you're going to turn up when or where. Nope, haven't yet found any actual weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Still looking for those. But yesterday our coalition allies the Poles stumbled across four anti-aircraft missiles that not only were built by the French, but were built by the French this year.No immediate comment from Jacques Chirac on this fascinating little discovery. He was too busy spending yesterday sneering at the realistic Iraqi reconstruction program President Bush is patiently trying to get approved at the United Nations. Chirac wants a sovereign Iraqi government in place. Well, who doesn't? The difference is Chirac wants it set up in about the next 15 minutes, whereas the more level-headed recognize that Saddam-shattered Iraq is just plain not yet up to any large-scale rebuilding job on its own. That's not Western colonialism. That's simple common sense.
PDiddie
Sounds good to me.
why there are questions about Bush crediblity:
Quote:"The report (by Kay's team) states that Saddam Hussein's regime had a clandestine network of biological laboratories, a live strain of deadly agent botulinum, sophisticated concealment efforts and advanced design work on prohibited longer-range missiles," Bush said before starting a daylong trip to Milwaukee.
But Kay said the vial had been stored for safekeeping in an Iraqi scientist's refrigerator since 1993. He offered no evidence it had been used in a weapons program during the last decade.
You remember the old saying "Let Congress appropriate the right amount of funds -- and there will be weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq."
Ahhh...is that an old saying -- or a new one?
au1929 wrote: Poles stumbled across four anti-aircraft missiles that not only were built by the French, but were built by the French this year.No immediate comment from Jacques Chirac on this fascinating little discovery. He was too busy spending yesterday sneering at the realistic Iraqi reconstruction program President Bush is patiently trying to get approved at the United Nations.
Au, that story has turned out to be a dud.
Quote:Poland: French Missile Report Was Wrong
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-French-Missiles.html
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- After a protest from French President Jacques Chirac, Poland said Saturday it had been mistaken in reporting that its troops found new French-made anti-aircraft misiles in central Iraq.
Chirac swiftly denied selling Iraq weapons in violation of the U.N. weapons embargo imposed against Saddam Hussein's regime in 1990. The claims, he said, ``are as false today as they were yesterday.''
An aide to the Polish prime minister said an initial report that the Roland missiles found by Polish troops days ago were produced in 2003 was incorrect. France said it stopped producing any type of Roland missile in 1993.
Prime Minister Leszek Miller met with Chirac twice to explain the mistake, said the aide, Tadeusz Iwinski. The two leaders were in Rome on Saturday for a European Union summit.
``There can be no 2003 missiles since these missiles have not been made for 15 years,'' Chirac told reporters in Rome. ``Polish soldiers confused things. I told ... Miller so frankly -- friendly but firmly.'' [..]
Iwinski said the matter has been settled. ``It was wrongly said that the rockets were produced in that year,'' Iwinski said by telephone from the summit. ``President Chirac has accepted Prime Minister Leszek Miller's explanation.''
The Polish defense minister, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, ``expressed his regrets'' for the mistake, a ministry statement said.
