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Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong
(Commentary by Harry Browne) January 15, 2005

In 2002, the year before the Iraq War began, Iraqi officials produced an 11,800-page report on Iraq's weapons programs. The report described all the chemical and biological weapons the country once had — where they came from and what was done with them — as well as what had happened to Iraq's nuclear weapons program.

Although the report was prepared for the United Nations, U.S. officials intercepted the report, edited out 8,000 pages (over two thirds) of it, and delivered its Reader's Digest version of the report to the UN.

The missing parts of the report covered the Iraqis' acquisition of chemical and biological weapons from the U.S., the delivery of non-fissionable materials for a nuclear bomb by the U.S. to the Iraqis, and the training of Iraqi nuclear scientists at U.S. nuclear facilities in Los Alamos, Sandia, and Berkeley.

The basic points made in the report were:

- Iraq once had chemical and biological weapons.

- Some of those weapons were destroyed at the end of the Gulf War; the rest were destroyed under the supervision of the UN weapons inspectors.

- Iraq once had a program to develop nuclear weapons.

- Some of the nuclear weapons facilities were destroyed at the end of the Gulf War; the rest were destroyed under the supervision of the UN weapons inspectors.

UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said the conclusions stated in the report were basically true — that Iraq no longer had dangerous weapons.

Now here we are, over two years later. What have we learned? The hunt for WMD has turned up exactly nothing, and so the hunt has been called off. [Just about] everything Hussein said about the weapons has turned out to be true. [Just about] everything George Bush said about Iraq's weapons has turned out to be false.

***COMMENT***
What's most interesting to me is that:
1. The U.S. edits out the incriminating parts of the report.
2. Iraq's most nasty WMD (chemical, biological, materials and training for potential nuclear) came from the U.S. (like many of us were saying all along).
3. Yes, Iraq once had WMD, but they were destroyed (just like we all knew).

posted by Hal 1:25 PM