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June 23, 2006
Correcting my impatient and improper speculation
Yesterday I speculated that the Inquirer was keeping recent WMD allegations under wraps, and Philadelphians in the dark. Well, a report on Santorum's press conference is on the front page of today's Inquirer. My apologies to the Inquirer. It's all too easy for me to forget that online news moves at a much faster speed than print journalism. Because the press conference took place at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, I assumed that there would be enough time to get it into the next day's edition. Obviously there wasn't. I shouldn't be so impatient. posted by Eric on 06.23.06 at 10:36 AM
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The document you refer to does not state whether they existed; only that they were unaccounted for. In 2003, the Duelfer report stated that because there were only 53 of these weapons, the ISG judged the chemical weapons to have been "unilaterally destroyed": http://americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4308 As a result of the Duelfer report, many people asserted that Saddam Hussein had acted in good faith. 500 discovered -- and the possibility of more -- tends to undercut that argument. The argument over the usefulness of these weapons aside, this is still news. Eric Scheie · June 23, 2006 01:32 PM |
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These shells were found in 2003. Nobody has been keeping anything under wraps.
Did you know that these exact shells were part of the Bush administration's efforts to sell America on the war?
You can see them mentioned on page 6 of this Pentagon document called "What Does Disarmament Look Like?"
It says 550 shells, but in either event we all know they were completely useless when the claim was made that Iraq needed to come clean about them.