No Weapons, No Problems
So I read that the Pentagon is “winding down” its search for banned weapons in Iraq, without finding anything of consequence. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? What’s remarkable about this article is the masterful way it’s been constructed, to elide around the cognitive dissonance of these military types as they grapple with their sublimated discomfort caused by the primary falsifications stemming from the malfeasance and lies of their Commander-in-Chief, who directed them on this fruitless and dangerous task.
The group directing all known U.S. search efforts for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is winding down operations without finding proof that President Saddam Hussein kept clandestine stocks of outlawed arms … arrived with high hopes of early success. They said they expected to find what Secretary of State Colin L. Powell described at the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 5 — hundreds of tons of biological and chemical agents, missiles and rockets to deliver the agents, and evidence of an ongoing program to build a nuclear bomb. Scores of fruitless missions broke that confidence … “Am I convinced that what we did in this fight was viable? I tell you from the bottom of my heart: We stopped Saddam Hussein in his WMD programs,” he said, using the abbreviation for weapons of mass destruction. “Do I know where they are? I wish I did . . . but we will find them. Or not. I don’t know. I’m being honest here.”
Let’s remember what Robin Cook, the most significant defector with inside knowledge, said a couple of months ago:
Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction in the commonly understood sense of the term � namely a credible device capable of being delivered against a strategic city target.
It probably still has biological toxins and battlefield chemical munititions, but it has had them since the 1980s when US companies sold Saddam anthrax agents and the then British Government approved chemical and munitions factories.
So in the absence of any meaningful evidence that would constitute the “smoking gun”, the Pentagon grasps at straws… desperately exhibiting “menacingly” sterilized trailers equipped with questionably proficient food processors.