Weapons of Mass Destruction:

A Handy Reference, March 19, 2005
Lance Frizzell: This picture is a handy reference for those that say Saddam did not have WMDs...

Proof of WMD, October 29, 2004
It's worth noting in all the debate over the missing explosives in Iraq that one of the three kinds of explosives at the center of the debate is HMX. Why is that important? As former weapons inspector David Kay, who later lead the Iraq Survey Group's hunt for WMD in post-liberation Iraq, explained to CNN's Aaron Brown in a recent televised interview, HMX is a key component of nuclear bombs. Siad Kay, "HMX is in...

And If Not That, Then Perhaps The Comfy Chair?, October 26, 2004
Nashville's largest newspaper, The Tennessean, says in an editorial today that the growing threat of Iran's nuclear weapons program "warrants an ultimatum." What kind of an ultimatum? A threat to use force to destroy Iran's nuke facilities, perhaps? Or a threat to use force to oust the terrorist-supporting Mad Mullahs of Tehran? No. An ultimatum that "Iran... will become isolated if it doesn't listen to reason." Agonizing. Such a "threat" would be empty and ineffective....

Making The Case for War, July 15, 2004
George Miller over at London Calling, has a fantastic piece on Tony Blair and the ongoing political tussle over the intel surrounding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction - and the moral implications in focusing on Blair's pre-war statements rather than on the greater evil of Islamist terror. How good is it? I was trying to find a small bit to excerpt and found I was about to excerpt the whole thing. So I excerpted the...

Joe Wilson Lied. His Credibility Died., July 11, 2004
Joe Wilson, the former ambassador who claimed he'd proven that Saddam hadn't tried to buy uranium from Africa, is now proven to be lying on several counts. Oh, and there was plenty of American and British and French intel to back up the president's much-criticized claim in his State of the Union address in 2003 that Iraq sought uranium from Africa....

What Big Pile of Nuclear Materials?, July 06, 2004
This story can't be true because, as we all know by now by listening to the Left, the anti-war crowd, the mainstream media and the Democrats, Saddam didn't have any weapons of mass destruction or even the parts and materials to make them because bushliedpeopledied and, uh ...In a secret operation, the United States last month removed from Iraq nearly two tons of uranium and hundreds of highly radioactive items that could have been used...

WMD Update: Iraq Nearly Became WMD Marketplace, July 02, 2004
Iraq was poised to become the "Grand Central Station" of a global illicit trade in weapons of mass destruction before the war, according to a forthcoming report from the Senate Intelligence Committee....

More WMD Found in Iraq, July 02, 2004
The transcript of a radio interview with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals that more of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq - and the administration is still investigating evidence that some of Saddam's WMD were hidden in Syria....

Links, June 25, 2004
New York Times admits: Saddam reached out to al Qaeda. Now let's think about this for a moment. Saddam: hated America, worked on developing weapons of mass destruction, used WMD against the Kurds. Al Qaeda: hated America, used whatever weapons it could get to attack America, actively and openly desired WMD. And Saddam reached out to al Qaeda. And some people still think it was stupid to remove Saddam before he developed more WMD and...

New Iraqi President: Saddam 'Weapon of Mass Destruction', June 21, 2004
Read about it here, because it's not likely to make your local paper. (Hmm. I seem to recall somebody else who once said Saddam himself was Iraq's weapon of mass destruction...) Also, the new president of Iraq and its new deputy prime minister are urging the American media to provide more balanced coverage of operations in Iraq. (UPDATE: And the U.S. military has made it possible for your local newspaper or teevee news to do...

Because I Could, June 21, 2004
I've taken the liberty of reproducing Maureen Dowd's latest New York Times column here, and adding a few helpful hyperlinks to help Ms. Dowd make her points more effectively....

Hey. Where'd Those Come From?, June 09, 2004
Banned Iraqi missile parts found in Jordan. Huh. And in Denmark. Interesting. Must be a lie. Because Saddam never had any banned weapons. Just like he had no connections to al Qaeda, and certainly no links to the September 11 attack. Nothing to see here, move along....

Not Only Anti-War. On The Other Side., May 20, 2004
Think the Left will change its tune on the war in Iraq if we find proof of the weapons of mass destruction? Think again.Even if we were to discover enormous warehouses full of nuclear weapons, the war still wouldn't have been justified. - popular syndicated political cartoonist Ted Rall, who describes himself as typical liberal Democrat.I'd link to the page where he wrote it, but I'm pretty sure that there's a special room in Hell...

Yet More WMD in Iraq For The Left To Deny, May 17, 2004
Sarin nerve gas - a weapon of mass destruction - found in a roadside bomb in Iraq. UPDATE: The AP reports: "U.S. officials said Monday they are concerned that other sarin-filled munitions may still exist in Iraq and may not be well marked after evidence indicated a roadside shell that exploded contained the nerve agent." But of course Saddam had no WMD....

The Big Lie is that Bush Lied, April 04, 2004
Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Rosen examines the charge that "Bush Lied."Bill Clinton is a compulsive liar. He lied about big things and small. He got caught at it, repeatedly. Just ask his wife. Democrats became so testy and defensive about the lies that brought Clinton down that they've since become obsessed with the very term. So they've tried to pin the "L" word on Bush in a transparent attempt to turn the tables. Disagreements,...

WMD: The Weapon of Mass Deliverance, February 02, 2004
David Warren explains why everybody believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Read the whole thing. Here's an excerpt:Saddam himself did not know he lacked weapons of mass destruction. The analyses of documents, interrogations, and searches conducted by Mr. Kay's teams paint the most extraordinary picture of a regime that had self-compressed into a general state of paranoid psychosis around the same key year of 1998, and functioned like an unstaffed mental asylum. Saddam put...

What David Kay Said, January 26, 2004
The media is going nutso over David Kay's latest statements on the hunt for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. As I see it, Kay said three important things. 1. It now appears that Saddam Hussein's regime did not have large stockpiles of WMD before the war. 2. We must examine why our intelligence services (and indeed most of the world's intelligence services) believed he did retain significant WMD. 3. There is evidence some of Iraq's...

Speaking Truth to Liars, January 11, 2004
John Hawkins explodes the myth that the sole reason President Bush gave for toppling Saddam Hussein was the weapons of mass destruction. Against the Left's lies - that Bush claimed Saddam was an "imminent" threat, that Bush lied about the WMD, and that Bush gave no other reasons for invading Iraq - Hawkins lines up the truth. It speaks loudly against the lies. To begin with, this argument that Bush kept emphasizing that we were...

Nothing to See Here, Move Along, January 10, 2004
Somebody found something in Iraq that might be a banned weapon of mass destruction. But don't worry. The hate-Bush crowd knows Saddam didn't have any weapons of mass destruction. So if this turns out to be an actual banned WMD, you'll soon here the hate-Bush crowd explain that it isn't very much WMD, or wasn't nukes, or was useless 'cuz it was buried, or some such nonsense. UPDATE: Glenn Reynolds makes some good points about...

What He Said 3, January 10, 2004
David Kaspar did some digging too and found that the authors of the CEIP report include two people who "served in the Clinton administration and opposed the Iraq war," and the third, Joseph Cirincione,has proven himself to be a hardline Bush-hater and a foe of the "neo-conservatives". He bitterly opposed the 2003 Iraq war - before and after. His remarks on the subject were frequently polemic and condescending towards members of the Bush administration.THe CEIP...

What He Said 2, January 09, 2004
Darren Kaplan is on a roll. First, he fisks a UPI story on an issue of international law (scroll down) and then he exposes duplicity at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The CEIP issued a report yesterday accusing the Bush administration of "systematically misrepresenting" the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. But it's a claim the CEIP itself was making back in 2002....

What He Said, January 09, 2004
The Left is in a happy froth over news about a report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace alleging the Bush administration exaggerated the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program. The Left's general meme: the report proves there was no imminent threat, Bush said the threat was imminent, ergo, Bush Lied, People Died. Problem: Bush said the threat was NOT imminent. Here's the key quote from his 2003 State of the...

Are Saddam's WMD in Syria?, January 06, 2004
A Dutch newspaper says some of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were moved to Syria - and the Bush administration has a pretty good idea where they are. If you can read Dutch, you can read the full account here. Charles Paul Freund has a summary at the Reason blog....

Strategerical Successfullness!, December 20, 2003
There is now no denying that President Bush's foreign policy is working. Libya is giving up its WMD programs....

History Lesson, December 17, 2003
Lee Harris explains the roots of the Iraq war......

Whither the WMD?, December 16, 2003
John Hawkins reveals the truth about the weapons of mass destruction.Worst case scenario, it's like we stopped a serial killer before he could kill again as opposed to actually catching him with a body in the basement.Answers all questions. Clip 'n' save....

Preventing War, December 15, 2003
Polls show the American people increasingly support the war in Iraq, much to the chagrin of your average Democrat running for president who isn't named Joe Lieberman. I support it too......

WMD Update, December 10, 2003
A Badgdad dentist who blogs under the initials A.Y.S. comments on these photos of the unearthing of an Iraqi MiG fighter jet found buried in the Iraqi desert, and some great comments......

The Real Iraq, November 17, 2003
Ordinary Iraqis don't care about the whereabouts of the WMD. And they don't want Americans to leave, says New York Times reporter John Burns in an illuminating article today....

The View from Iraq, November 05, 2003
Want to know what's really going on in Baghdad? Read the blog of an Iraqi doctor named Zeyad. Here's an excerpt. Caution - strong language ahead......

Don't Believe Everything You Read, November 02, 2003
Washington Post story on hunt for Saddams WMD filled with, uh, factual inaccuracies. [Hat tip: Instapundit]...

WMD Hunt: Did Saddam Ship 'Em to Syria?, October 28, 2003
The New York Times has just posted a report on the very plausible possibility that Saddam shipped parts of his weapons-of-mass-destruction stuff to Syria just before the U.S. invasion in March....

WMD: The Hunt for the Truth, October 27, 2003
South Knox Bubba says I'm lying about this. But David Kay has been in Iraq, while SKB hasn't, so I think David Kay has a much better idea of the extent of Saddam's weapons programs than SKB does....

The Imminent Lie, October 11, 2003
Andrew Sullivan reveals, powerfully, how the anti-Bush Left is lying when it says President Bush claimed Iraq presented an "imminent" threat. In fact, Bush said just the opposite, and Sullivan has the pre-war quotes - from Democrats! - that proves it....

The Imminent Lie, October 11, 2003
Andrew Sullivan reveals, powerfully, how the anti-Bush Left is lying when it says President Bush claimed Iraq presented an "imminent" threat. In fact, Bush said just the opposite, and Sullivan has the pre-war quotes - from Democrats! - that proves it....

The Imminent Lie, October 10, 2003
John Weidner examines the imminent lie that is "being pushed really hard right now" by the Left. Don't miss it....

If This is True..., October 01, 2003
If This is True... ...then all those Lefties teasing about the lack of WMDs in Iraq will have to find something else to talk about....

Do Journalistic 'Ethics' Require Protecting a Criminal?, October 01, 2003
The Tennessean opines on the Plame name leak 'scandal' with an over-the-top headline that calls Plame a "CIA spy," as if she is doing James Bond stuff in hostile foreign countries. C'mon, folks. She worked a desk job at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. But that's not the part of the editorial that raised my ire. This is:Reporters respect the confidentiality of their sources. That confidentiality, which is crucial for investigative journalism, will likely protect...

Should the Journalists Talk?, September 30, 2003
Reports on the Plame Affair say six journalists - two print, four broadcast - were shopped the story that Bob Novak eventually printed, the one that reveals the identity of a woman said to be a covert CIA operative of some sort. Glenn Reynolds, who is a lawyer, says Novak and the others ought to be subpoenaed and asked to name the source (or sources).Subpoena him and the other reporters. Find out what happened. If...

The Real Iraqi WMD, June 09, 2003
The Sunday Los Angeles Times reported an interesting possibility regarding Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.Saddam Hussein's intelligence services set up a network of clandestine cells and small laboratories after 1996 with the goal of someday rebuilding illicit chemical and biological weapons, according to a former senior Iraqi intelligence officer. The officer, who held the rank of brigadier general, said each closely guarded weapons team had three or four scientists and other experts who were...

The Real Iraqi WMD, June 09, 2003
The Sunday Los Angeles Times reported an interesting possibility regarding Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.Saddam Hussein's intelligence services set up a network of clandestine cells and small laboratories after 1996 with the goal of someday rebuilding illicit chemical and biological weapons, according to a former senior Iraqi intelligence officer. The officer, who held the rank of brigadier general, said each closely guarded weapons team had three or four scientists and other experts who were...