Weapons which nobody needs 500 tons of

As all who read now know, Saddam Hussein was using billions of dollars of oil-4-food money, intended to feed hungry children, to bribe UN officials, French, German, and Russian government officials, and major Kerry financial backers to turn blind eyes towards his illicit programs.

I've mentioned previously that nobody needs hundreds of tons of anthrax powder to create havoc; as we noted immediately after 9-11, a few teaspoons full will suffice. Turns out, that the Duelfer report mentions a number of other and similar items involved in the Iraqi programs which Hussein was bribing people to ignore, which nobody needs large quantities of:

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What seems to be the case, is that in this sort of game, wherewithal and intentions count for more than being able to find warehouses full of illicit materials.



Saturday, October 9

OK, lefties, remember the mantra...Wrong War, Wrong Place, Wrong Time...

If any of you out there still honestly believe that the war in Iraq was a distraction, rushed into, or just plain old unnecessary, read this. I dare you. You can replay John Kerry's voice in your head telling you that the Duelfer report said there were no weapons of mass distruction. Just read. Here's some of the highlights:

Saddam Hussein established a special assassinations unit that made use of poisons and other James Bond-style weaponry to kill his enemies abroad, according to the report published by the Iraq Survey Group last week.

Before the poisons were used in the field they were tested on political prisoners, many of whom died in a macabre series of experiments that ran for two decades until at least 2001.

Experiments? On people? You mean like the Nazis used to do? It can't be true. Saddam was contained. John Kerry and France said so. The United Nations said so.

Read on.

The research, says the US report, was part of a programme by the regime to target its enemies with a variety of devices from pen-shaped "auto-injecting" syringes to perfume sprayers and medicine bottles filled with sarin and mustard gas.

The report says the programme was overseen by Iraq's M16 chemical directorate, which operated covert laboratories producing, researching and testing ricin and other toxic substances from as early as 1975.

Keep in mind that John Kerry kept citing this very same Duelfer report you are reading about last night in the debate to prove his point that there were no weapons of mass distruction, and that Bush had no business going into Iraq. There was no terrorism front there in Iraq until now.

Now I have to be honest. I do not understand where you are coming from if you think that testing ricin, sarin and mustard gas on people to assess the effects do not necessarily show an intent to develop a chemical weapons program, which is one of the three possible definitions of a weapon of mass destruction.

Read on.

A leading role was played by Muhammad Munim al-Azmerli, a prominent scientist said to have personally filled a pen-shaped syringe with snake venom for use on a foreign mission.

Al-Azmerli, arrested after the American invasion as one of the "200 list" of suspects, died in US custody in May after what an autopsy described as a "sudden hit to the back of his head". Before he died he is said to have confessed to testing poisons on human guinea pigs.

Not the kind of friendly fellow who would qualify for the Nobel Prize, is he?

Simmer down, lefties, I know what you are thinking. Big deal. Pen-shaped syringe. Not a WMD. It can only kill one person at a time. Assassination stuff only.

So tell me which Olympic athlete in Greece a few months ago would not have wanted George Bush to act as they are lying on the ground dying, convulsing with foam coming out of their mouth? If they built one pen-shaped syringe, who's to say they couldn't have built fifty for a team of assassins? This is Tom Clancy stuff for real.

Read on.

The report claims al-Azmerli confessed to administering various chemicals to "human test subjects" from 1975 until 1980 under orders from Saddam's half-brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, the IIS director. Among the aims was development of a poison for use in assassinations that killed its victim only after five hours.

A senior member of Saddam's government claimed al-Azmerli used poisons on 100 prisoners, including Kurds, Iranians and a Saudi Arabian. The scientist also "tested explosives" on them, as well as administering drugs that affected memory and sexual function on 15 prisoners between 1980 and 1989. Any that survived were executed.

Al-Azmerli admitted testing cyanide, strychnine and other poisons, but insisted the number of subjects was small. Numan Muhammad al-Tikriti, who became head of M16 in 1996, admitted witnessing the experiments, but denied having been involved.

You're right, Josh Marshall. Bush didn't use the information in this report as his reason for going to war, so you must laugh this off as a desperate attempt by the administration to try now to come up for reasons to go to war then.

If that's the argument, then it seems logical to assume one of the following about the decision George Bush had to make early last year:

It's better to not act until you can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that a bad guy in a bad country has done something wrong to you. So we should have waited until the weapons inspectors, in a time when Saddam still ruled the country, found all this information out before we considered making a move. And then, and only then, with the blessing of the Security Council, who was being paid more bribe money than Tony Soprano could ever dream about.

Or,

You analyze information and red flags in a whole new way, since you are now in an environment where you've already been attacked, and play your hunch, knowing that if you are wrong, your political career is over.

You know that the UN isn't going to cooperate, but you give it one more chance anyway. You know in your gut that Saddam is jerking around the weapons inspectors, but obviously can't prove it.

You are currently looking at the decision to pre-emptively attack a country in a political environment where the opposition is trying to hang responsibility for letting 9/11 happen around your neck.

So you decide to go in, knowing in your heart that eventually you will be proven correct in what you were suspicious of in Iraq.

Bush made the right choice. He was right then, he is right now.

Read on.

The most recent experiments cited in the report took place in July 2001. Nine people are reported to have been brought to a safe house in the Karada district of Baghdad, near the Tigris river, where they were tied down to beds and had small tubes placed in their arms.

The next day all showed signs of bleeding from the mouth. A female doctor gave each of them an injection and the following day six were dead. The doctor then reportedly performed an autopsy on at least one of the victims, suggesting she was trying to determine the effects of the substances.

Bush still can't use this because he didn't call his shot ahead of time, right Josh?

Did Roosevelt call his shot ahead of time about all the fun stuff Hitler was up to? All of it?

Read on.

M16 was said to have changed location five times between 1991 and 2003, apparently to avoid United Nations inspectors. As well as experimenting on prisoners, its agents tested chemicals on rabbits, pigs and other animals.
Political prisoners were said to have been forced during the 1980s and early 1990s to drink "milky liquids", that killed them within three to four weeks.


Although al-Tikriti gave an agent a perfume-bottling machine, plans to use sarin and sulphur mustard for assassinations foundered when chemicals to produce the agents were unavailable, a former Iraqi intelligence officer claimed.

Similarly, an agent took one of the pen-shaped "auto-injecting syringes" to Britain in 1987 and then elsewhere in Europe the following year but apparently did not use the device.

The last sliver of road the left can go down after reading this report is that even if Saddam bribed the world...even if he did build up some of his chemical weapons programs, you still can't prove he intended to use this stuff on us.

With three weeks until the election, daily revelations from the 1,000 page Duelfer report about Saddam's intent and capabilities to come, and one more debate to go, if that's the position John Kerry wants to defend, he might as well not even bother watching the results come in November 2nd.

I still have to believe that in this day and age, it's going to be real tough to sell to fellow Americans a position of opposition to taking out a Hitler-in-the-making before he had a chance to prove to the world with his actions he was a Hitler.

Wrong war, wrong time, wrong place. These syringes were in Britian and Europe, and no one knew about it.

The chem experiments department moved five times to stay ahead of the inspectors.

If you are so irresponsible to not read the wealth of information about the true capabilities of Saddam Hussein and yet still vote reflexively Democrat for whatever reason, you shouldn't vote. You obviously have the right to, but you shouldn't.

If you have failing vision, but still have a license, you have a moral obligation not to get behind that wheel. You'll get someone killed.

Voting Democratic for pure partisan reasons will have the same effect. You'll get someone killed.

If you drink, impairing your mental capacities, you shouldn't drive. If you blur your mental capacities by brainwashing yourself on ABC, Dan Rather, and mainstream media, you aren't real fit to enter the voting booth.