Andrea Mitchell and MSNBC take a stab at spinning optimistic what should be a devastating report for the Bush administration.<\/p>\n
Although the title of the article is ‘Iraq WMD Search Coming Up Short’ <\/a><\/i> as you read this hodgepodge of ‘reasons of the week’ for pre-emptively striking Iraq we discover that the David Kay investigation to be released next week is a BUST.<\/p>\n Mitchell makes her laziest effort to be supportive of the non-discoveries to date by stating this;<\/p>\n But the CIA’s best evidence so far of nuclear equipment is plans for a centrifuge, buried in a garden 12 years ago after the first Iraq war.<\/i> <\/p>\n Is she displaying a sense of humour or plodding lethargically along with the Bushies on yet another campaign to deceive the American people with the help of the liberal press?<\/p>\n If Mitchell were indeed a journalist she would have mentioned reports like this one;<\/p>\n Excerpt<\/a>;<\/p>\n Mahdi Shukur Obeidi wanted to make a deal. In exchange for asylum, the Iraqi scientist would turn over hidden information about Saddam Hussein’s former nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n Instead, he was arrested by the U.S. military in Baghdad, released by the CIA, sent into hiding and then whisked out of the country after he went public.<\/i> The United States didn’t think his ‘evidence’ was important enough to offer him asylum in exchange for it. Only after he went to CNN was he abducted by the CIA and has yet to be returned to his family. <\/p>\n No smoking gun, said the Bushies to the scientist.<\/p>\n And the latest excuse they are giving the American people for pre-emptively striking Iraq in the absence of an imminent threat????<\/p>\n Despite the failed search, at Fort Stewart, Ga., on Friday, President Bush again raised the specter of Saddam’s weapons: “Because of our military, catastrophic weapons will no longer be in the hands of a reckless dictator.” <\/p>\n But members of his national security team are now saying removing Saddam was justification enough for the war — that he himself was a weapon of mass destruction<\/b>.<\/i> <\/p>\n There you have it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andrea Mitchell and MSNBC take a stab at spinning optimistic what should be a devastating report for the Bush administration. Although the title of the article is ‘Iraq WMD Search Coming Up Short’ as you read this hodgepodge of ‘reasons … Continue reading
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