Buckets
It brings to mind the expert testimony about the aluminum tubes that the Junta tried - and at times still tries - to pass off as parts to make centrifuges: 'if they want to use these tubes for centrifuges, we should give them back.' Useless, pointless, and threadbare lies, the tubes case was one of two major points to the career-shattering case that Colin Powell made to the UN Security Council.
The other part was, of course, the 'mobile biological weapons labs' that were shown from satellite photos before the war and then touted as 'found WMD' for a long time after the initial phase of the invasion. We know now, of course, that the trucks had nothing to do with WMD's - but when did the Junta know it?
My guess would be before they presented them to the UN, but we must go by the evidence - and that evidence now says that a team of specialists determined in May 2003 - before Georgie proclaimed them as 'found WMD' - that the trucks had nothing to do with any WMD. The report was filed and promptly classified as Georgie's speeches went on to cite them over and over again.
No surprise there, I guess. Again I wonder what Newt's Congress would have made of a similar revelation from Bubba's administration. I mean, they fought so hard to get him on his Lewinsky indiscretion, what would they have made out of a giant lie and cover-up like this? But for Georgie, it's just another in what will be a near-endless stream of stomach-churning revelations to be seen over the next few years.
What struck me as funny - like the 'if that's what they want them for we should give them back' tube comment, was the response of the truck team to the notion that the trucks could be converted to bio-weapons use if Saddam had wanted to use them for that:
"It would be easier to start all over with just a bucket," said Rod Barton, an Australian biological weapons expert and former member of the survey group.
That about covers it.
Any takes for impeachment? No? Nothing yet?
The other part was, of course, the 'mobile biological weapons labs' that were shown from satellite photos before the war and then touted as 'found WMD' for a long time after the initial phase of the invasion. We know now, of course, that the trucks had nothing to do with WMD's - but when did the Junta know it?
My guess would be before they presented them to the UN, but we must go by the evidence - and that evidence now says that a team of specialists determined in May 2003 - before Georgie proclaimed them as 'found WMD' - that the trucks had nothing to do with any WMD. The report was filed and promptly classified as Georgie's speeches went on to cite them over and over again.
No surprise there, I guess. Again I wonder what Newt's Congress would have made of a similar revelation from Bubba's administration. I mean, they fought so hard to get him on his Lewinsky indiscretion, what would they have made out of a giant lie and cover-up like this? But for Georgie, it's just another in what will be a near-endless stream of stomach-churning revelations to be seen over the next few years.
What struck me as funny - like the 'if that's what they want them for we should give them back' tube comment, was the response of the truck team to the notion that the trucks could be converted to bio-weapons use if Saddam had wanted to use them for that:
"It would be easier to start all over with just a bucket," said Rod Barton, an Australian biological weapons expert and former member of the survey group.
That about covers it.
Any takes for impeachment? No? Nothing yet?
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