Did Iraq show the trailers that GWB is declaring as the long sought after WMD to the UN inspectors before the war? Did the UN let them be? If they were WMD production facilites, wouldnt the UN have asked for their destruction?
“Iraq also handed over videotapes of mobile biological weapons laboratories to inspectors. Iraq says the videos show the laboratories do not violate UN resolutions.”
"BAGHDAD, March 16: Iraq has given UN arms inspectors pictures and videotapes of mobile laboratories it says are for strictly for civilian purposes , hitting back at US and British charges that they are used to produce biological agents, a UN spokesman said Sunday. "
Was one of these mobile labs in fact British?
“Iraq has acknowledged importing a mobile laboratory in 2002 from Britain that Baghdad said is used by the commerce ministry to test food safety. This laboratory was mentioned by Baghdad in its lengthy declaration to the United Nations on its weapons programmes December 7.”
If they ARE the same ones AND they are WMD production facilities, why didnt Powell use this as an example of the UN inspectors blatantly ignoring something they were expressly shown and had documented evidence of? One would think this would have been exibit A of his presentation in order to discredit weapons inspections.
I havent seen any reference to this anywhere since their “discovery”.
“The existence of the labs is an important but separate issue. In the midst of a debate about whether the U.S. government misled the public and other governments over its reasons for invading Iraq, the President is now making a patently false claim about evidence of the existence of weapons of mass destruction.”
AFAIK, the labs them selves are not banned by any UN resolution.
All I will say is that those so-called two mobile labs are not good enough at all, considering the massive and extensive resources of the mighty U.S.A., to even so much as justify Bush still claiming that WMD’s exist.
Anyway, there is still the possibility that continued search might unearth those WMD’s. And we must remember, was it Rumsfeld, who insisted that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. And may we add: and is not evidence of presence, if we are talking about evidence, and which is what we are talking about. We cannot keep maintaining that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and go about feeling so justified as having evidence already.
I heard on the radio (I could probably dig up a cite if you insist) that the mobile labs that have been captured have roll-up canvas sides, which are not in keeping with bio-weapons, since they leak and would probably whack anything nearby. “More in keeping with missile fuel re-oxidation”, was what most of the military heads interviewed concluded.
As the cruel bully, Objective Truth, seizes the toy truck in little GeeDubya’s hands and begins to wrest it from his grasp he is heard to cry out plaintively:
“NO! MINE! Its MINE, Uncle Karl gave it to ME! And its proof, it proves everything, you can’t have it, its MINE!!!”
Lord, let me live long enough to hear his concession speech. Then I’m all yours.