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Iraq-Jordan
Reuters Gags on Own Words: Poles Find WMDs
2004-07-02
Artillery shells found by Polish troops in Iraq definitely contained the deadly nerve agent cyclosarin, the Polish army said on Friday.
The threat of weapons of mass destruction possessed by Saddam Hussein’s now toppled regime was the main justification used by Washington to go to war against Iraq last year,
hack, hack, gag, cough, sputter
but U.S.-led forces have only found small amounts of banned weapons.
whew, I can breathe again
If the U.S.-led forces don't find them they don't count?
Poland said its soldiers found 17 Grad rockets and two mortar shells in late June and said U.S. experts had carried out tests on the weapons. "Tests conducted showed that there was cyclosarin in the rocket heads," General Marek Dukaczewski, the head of army intelligence, told a news conference. . . . Polish Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said the discovery of the rockets showed Saddam had failed to account for banned munitions held by Iraq. "Our predictions and reports that Saddam Hussein did not come clean with a large sum of weapons, artillery shells and of weapons of mass destruction were proven true," he said. . . . After inconclusive searches by international inspectors, President Bush accused then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of failing to give up chemical and biological weapons and invaded Iraq last year to depose him. "The intelligence we received suggested that these missiles had probably been hidden from United Nations inspectors," Dukaczewski said.
Posted by:sludj

#6  "After inconclusive searches by international inspectors". Funny how most journalists either don't know or can't quite bring themselves to accurately describe the situation. Iraq, not the UN, was obliged to document status or disposal of all WMD, under mandatory Chap. 6 resolutions pertinently including one amounting to a cease-fire. OK, let's try again, Reuters editors:

"After inconclusive searches by international inspectors, and a failure by Iraq to comply with mandatory UN resolutions by accounting for its banned weapons and fully cooperating with the inspections,...."

There, that's better.
Posted by: Verlaine   2004-07-02 11:45:19 PM  

#5  "After inconclusive searches by international inspectors". Funny how most journalists either don't know or can't quite bring themselves to accurately describe the situation. Iraq, not the UN, was obliged to document status or disposal of all WMD, under mandatory Chap. 6 resolutions pertinently including one amounting to a cease-fire. OK, let's try again, Reuters editors:

"After inconclusive searches by international inspectors, and a failure by Iraq to comply with mandatory UN resolutions by accounting for its banned weapons and fully cooperating with the inspections,...."

There, that's better.
Posted by: Verlaine   2004-07-02 11:45:11 PM  

#4  "After inconclusive searches by international inspectors". Funny how most journalists either don't know or can't quite bring themselves to accurately describe the situation. Iraq, not the UN, was obliged to document status or disposal of all WMD, under mandatory Chap. 6 resolutions pertinently including one amounting to a cease-fire. OK, let's try again, Reuters editors:

"After inconclusive searches by international inspectors, and a failure by Iraq to comply with mandatory UN resolutions by accounting for its banned weapons and fully cooperating with the inspections,...."

There, that's better.
Posted by: Verlaine   2004-07-02 11:44:55 PM  

#3  "After inconclusive searches by international inspectors". Funny how most journalists either don't know or can't quite bring themselves to accurately describe the situation. Iraq, not the UN, was obliged to document status or disposal of all WMD, under mandatory Chap. 6 resolutions pertinently including one amounting to a cease-fire. OK, let's try again, Reuters editors:

"After inconclusive searches by international inspectors, and a failure by Iraq to comply with mandatory UN resolutions by accounting for its banned weapons and fully cooperating with the inspections,...."

There, that's better.
Posted by: Verlaine   2004-07-02 11:44:44 PM  

#2  "After inconclusive searches by international inspectors". Funny how most journalists either don't know or can't quite bring themselves to accurately describe the situation. Iraq, not the UN, was obliged to document status or disposal of all WMD, under mandatory Chap. 6 resolutions pertinently including one amounting to a cease-fire. OK, let's try again, Reuters editors:

"After inconclusive searches by international inspectors, and a failure by Iraq to comply with mandatory UN resolutions by accounting for its banned weapons and fully cooperating with the inspections,...."

There, that's better.
Posted by: Verlaine   2004-07-02 11:44:38 PM  

#1  Obviously planted by the literally hundreds of Mossad operatives now roaming the Iraqi countryside. Obviously...Z.O.G. Rules! Donchaknow?
Posted by: borgboy   2004-07-02 10:06:44 PM  

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