Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Iraqi WMD Update

From the AP via KRON:
"It is possible that some of the materials may have been removed from Iraq by looters of sites and sold as scrap," the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission said in its quarterly report to the U.N. Security Council.

UNMOVIC said its experts and a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency, which was responsible for dismantling Iraq's nuclear program, were jointly investigating items from Iraq that were discovered in a scrap yard in the Dutch port of Rotterdam.

Through photographs taken during an initial IAEA investigation, UNMOVIC said it discovered that SA-2 engines used in Iraq's Al Samoud 2 banned missile program were among the scrap.

Commission experts examined one missile engine at the site and discovered from the serial number that it had been tagged by U.N. inspectors in the past and had not been declared as having been fired.

Representatives at the scrapyard indicated that between five and a dozen similar engines had been seen there in January and February, and that more could have passed through the yard unnoticed, the report said.

Matt's Chat

While it is looking like we won't be seeing "stockpiles" of weapons, we have certainly found weapons. And according to liberals, that was what the whole thing was about (or was that oil... I just can't keep up with all the conspiracy theories). The goalpost was moved to "stockpiles" after we found weapons.

Question: if we should find "stockpiles" what would the goalpost be moved to next?

Mark's Remarks


Well, you see, liberals will hold conservatives and people they hate (usually anyone who won't acknowledge their godlike astounding knowledge) accountable for every crossed t and dotted i in a speech. However, they will not hold their own elitist gods from the recent past (as late as 03, in John Kerry's case) for the same things said by conservatives. It is amazing the amount of kool aid these whackjobs are drinking just to keep themselves sane, but it is also sad.