This is a great article at Frontpage Magazine, written by John Loftus.
The inescapable conclusion is this: Saddam really did have WMD after all, but not in the way the Bush administration believed. A 9,000 word research paper with citations to each captured document has been posted online at LoftusReport.com, along with translations of the captured Iraqi documents, courtesy of Mr. Ryan Mauro and his friends.
Unfortunately, when you go to Loftus’ website, there is music playing in another language, and you have to pay for the report, but this is what he says about the documentation of what happened to Saddam’s WMD, in part:
This Iraqi document research has been supplemented with satellite photographs and dozens of interviews, among them David Gaubatz who risked radiation exposure to locate Saddam’s underwater WMD warehouses , and John Shaw, whose brilliant detective work solved the puzzle of where the WMD went. Both have contributed substantially to solving one of the most difficult mysteries of our decade.
The absolutists on either side of the WMD debate will be more than a bit chagrinned at these disclosures. The documents show a much more complex history than previously suspected. The “Bush lied, people died” chorus has insisted that Saddam had no WMD whatsoever after 1991 – and thus that WMD was no good reason for the war. The Neocon diehards insist that, as in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the treasure-trove is still out there somewhere, buried under the sand dunes of Iraq. Each side is more than a little bit wrong about Saddam’s WMD, and each side is only a little bit right about what happened to it.
I’m very tempted to get it, even though I’ll have to pony up with some bucks.
He gives some coordinates that you can use google earth to find, I think I’m going to do that, as well and maybe later on post some pictures of it.
He concludes with:
It is time to utterly reject the conventional wisdom that there were no WMD in Iraq and look to the best evidence: Saddam’s own files on WMD. The truth is what it is, the documents speak for themselves.
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Shattering Conventional Wisdom on Saddam’s WMD
Saddam really did have WMD after all, but not in the way the Bush administration believed. A 9,000 word research paper with citations to each captured document has been posted online at LoftusReport.com, along with translations of the captured Iraqi d…
I thought we’d already found plenty of evidence in the form of lockers and mobile weapons labs that showed that indeed, there were WMDs. Adding Saddam’s own reports that he had them sort of just is icing on the cake, if you ask me.
You’re right, of course, Ogre. Gaubatz has been trying to get someone’s attention for what he found…there was some bungling that went on, I think it’s amazing that the government and UN are too embarrassed to admit it now.