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Smells like coverup to me.

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As far as the weapons themselves, it’s possible they were moved to Syria, but I consider this unlikely. Chemical and Biological weapons are easy and relatively cheap to manufacture provided you have the scientific expertise. Many have short shelf-lives and require special facilities to house. It seems much more logical to me that they were destroyed at some point prior to hostilities with the intent to reestablish the capability at a later date. Certainly there is direct evidence of this with respect to Iraq’s nuclear capability. Hopefully you remember the Iraqi nuclear scientist who had elements of a calutron buried in his backyard. He was instructed to hide the parts so they could be used as templates to create more at a later date. This direct personal evidence, coupled with documentary evidence, has pretty decisively shown that Iraq did shut down it’s nuclear program with intent to covertly restart it once sanctions and inspectors were gone.

I just don’t see any advantage to shipping the weapons to Syria. Syria, with its own robust programs, certainly doesn’t need them. There is great political risk for Syria to accept the weapons for little to no benefit for them. And, as I mention above, the capability to reconstitute remains, as long as Saddam could hold on to the experts involved and survive the war.

However, despite all logic, it’s possible the weapons were transferred to Syria. Certainly many in the Intelligence community believe that is what happened, though I believe they were not.

Much of his writing in the past concerning Iraq/Al-Qaeda connection was discredited. In fact, that very memo that he used was called, by the Department of Defense, “not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.” Please do not harm the conservative movement by citing unreliable sources.

Perhaps the Bush administration and the military commanders in Iraq do not want to address this issue because if the WMD were moved and they failed to stop it this could call into question their competence as leaders. Clearly Bush did not lie about Saddam’s WMD. Perhaps they decided early on that they would allow the Democrats to make this an issue about the Administration’s integrity because it draws attention away from the competence issue. I certainly hope they are not thinking this way and did not think this way but I think it possible.

Finding out what happened to the former Iraqi regime’s WMD is a matter of national security for us and our allies. In this investigation, no stone should be left unturned and we should consider the possibility that the former regime’s WMD were moved to Syria or elsewhere.

Tierney’s methods of ascertaining this location were rather unconventional. ‘I would ask God and just get a sense if something was valid or not, and then know if I needed to pursue it,’ he said. His assessments through prayer were then confirmed to him by a friend’s clairvoyant dream, where he was able to find the location on a map. ‘Everything she said lined up. This place meets the criteria,’ Tierney said of a power generator plant near the Tigris River that he believes is actually a cover for a secret uranium facility.”

Of course even without Tierney, Coast to Coast is a somewhat bizarre radio show, covering “unusual stories in the paranormal and stories that the mainstream media didn’t want to touch.” Here’s one story currently highlighted on their web site: “Ghosts not as scary as usually portrayed; Real ghosts typically appear in normal, natural form.”

Tierney returned to Coast to Coast on 3/27/03. That night the guest who followed him shared this helpful information: “an internal vibration like that of a jet engine could be the first clue that you are about to have an out-of-body experience.” The night of Tierney’s first appearance, Coast to Coast featured its Reincarnation Line: “Candace from Redondo Beach told a strange tale of her possible former life as an American Indian.”

For some odd reason, the interviewer in the FrontPage article didn’t bother to ask Tierney why this “uranium enriching processing facility” that was “hidden underground” has never been found.

By the way, Tierney also apparently discussed this hidden plant with Hannity. Tierney said “I can drive there with my eyes shut.” Apparently he also said “we will be shocked with what we are going to find in Iraq … [there is] no doubt we will find huge amounts of what Iraq swears it does not have.”

I guess now we know where Bush got his information about tubes and yellowcake. Cheney had a clairvoyant dream.

Anyway, someone should call Duelfer right away and tell him about Tierney’s “assessments through prayer.” And tell him Candace says hi.