You remember the Iraq WMD? You know, the WMD that doesn’t exist, that’s just a figment of Bushitler and eeeeevil Karl Rove’s imagination who went into Iraq to steal the oil and kill Arabs? Well…according to the UN, it’s gone missing:
U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday.U.N. inspectors have been blocked from returning to Iraq since the U.S.-led war in 2003 so they have been using satellite photos to see what happened to the sites that were subject to U.N. monitoring because their equipment had both civilian and military uses.
In the report to the U.N. Security Council, acting chief weapons inspector Demetrius Perricos said he’s reached no conclusions about who removed the items or where they went. He said it could have been moved elsewhere in Iraq, sold as scrap, melted down or purchased.
Previously, we’ve had the non-existent WMD going to Syria in Russian trucks and the phantom weapons being removed and taken to the Bekka Valley in Lebanon.
For imaginary items, they sure get around, don’t they?
To be fair, the UN is talking about so called “dual-use” equipment, especially in the biologic weapons sphere. Fermenters and miles of pipes that could be used to make both pharmaceuticals and bio-weapons are valuable commodities and could have been sold or simply moved out to the desert and buried.
But the fact remains that something was removed from sites that the UN previously determined contained weapons of mass destruction. If they were used for innocent purposes, why move them?
This kind of logic will escape the moonbats who continue to ignore evidence of Saddam’s ties with al Qaida as well as evidence that while not present in the kind of stockpiles thought by western intelligence and the United Nations , Saddam’s WMD programs could have been reconstituted if his oil for food bribery schemes had been allowed to bear fruit and sanctions against him lifted.
UPDATE
Jonathon at GOP Bloggers:
So the stuff that Saddam didn’t have is now missing. At this point, the UN should be kept around for its wonderful sense of humor, if nothing else.
Hee.
And Matt at Blogs for Bush is scratching his head.
Alpha Patriot has an accounting of the missingWMD that doesn’t exist.
By the way, Good Luck to the Patriot as he’s leaving the Watcher’s Council after a long and illustrious stay. If you haven’t already, blogroll his site and visit often for some really good stuff!
7:06 am
Well, isn’t that rich.
Peace….........
7:39 am
Wait a minute…
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9:06 am
Footsoldier of Paychecks
Today’s dose of NIF - News, Interesting & Funny
10:03 am
Pointing at each other in circles.
I supported the decision for war based not on some WMD threat, but on my feeling that an eventual war with Iraq was inevitable, and that one now would be far less bloody than one later. So often this position gets me caught in the middle of an argument.
11:24 am
Wouldn’t US forces have checked those sites in the first days of the war and display the equipment to the world if it was truly nefarious?
Also, you wrote “If they were used for innocent purposes, why move them?” Didn’t you answer that in the previous paragraph? “could have been sold”
Looters, scavengers, profiteers in a war zone? It has been known to happen. Iraq Entrepeneurs perhaps?
11:26 am
Sorry you didn’t read the article.
UN satellite analysis showed something being moved from those sites before the invasion. My questions stands; why move them if they were not related to the biological weapons production?
12:36 pm
I did read the article, twice, and re-read it again now and do not see any mention of when. Can you quote where you see reference to the equipment disappearing before the war in this article?
Also, you say at the top “You remember the Iraq WMD? You know, the WMD that doesn’t exist, that’s just a figment of Bushitler and eeeeevil Karl Rove’s imagination who went into Iraq to steal the oil and kill Arabs? Well…according to the UN, it’s gone missing”
Yet the article is not about missing WMD’s but, as you acknowledge yourself, “”dual-use” equipment, that could be used (emphasis mine) to make both pharmaceuticals and bio-weapons”
Isn’t your lede mis-leading?
1:26 pm
WMD AWOL: UN
The WMD issue will most likely never go away, as it provides liberals an issue to fall back on as their other asinine arguments fall into the waste bin of political irrelevancy. So if Saddam’s WMDs (which the UN now claim are now missing) ever do sho…
2:29 pm
The UN Makes A Startling Discovery
The Associated Press is reporting, with shock, that the UN reports missing chemical, biological and missile equipment from the sites that were being monitored by UN weapons inspectors in Iraq.
6:26 pm
Awesome post!
10:03 am
Private isn’t your name mis-leading? It should be public.
10:11 am
Or maybe some other word that starts with a “p”. If you can’t connect the dots, I don’t think Rick is obliged to draw a picture for you. Rick, your Lead is perfect…! Haven’t you seen the satellite images, pontificating publius?
That’s right, putried pucilanimaous perfidity, I guess in your narrow definition of WMD, it has to be something narrowly used in the production of anthrax. Why would he have to move it at all if it was innocent and not for the purpose of producing something more sinister?
You’re not applying those two brain cells to the equation, lol!
12:14 pm
John Kerry is using this as a reason to impeach Bush.