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2005-03-14 Iraq-Jordan
Looting at Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Iraqi Minister Says
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Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-14 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 This is just a rehash of what we knew in the weeks/months after the war. I just don't buy that this stuff was stolen after the war by opportunistic thieves. A lot of it big hard/dangerous to transport stuff with a miniscule (after)market. It doesn't make sense people would steal it on speck or that in the postwar chaos potential buyers would contact those who had access and knew a centrifuge from a cement mixer. It is much more plausible it was dismantled by Saddam and sent to Syria/Bekka for safe keeping under some deal with Assad. And if it was stolen by looters why has most of it turned up?
Posted by phil_b 2005-03-14 12:41:13 AM||   2005-03-14 12:41:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 That should have read why hasn't most of it turned up?
Posted by phil_b 2005-03-14 12:42:17 AM||   2005-03-14 12:42:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It hasn't turned up because it's in Syrian control either in Syria or in Lebanon or in Iran. We know where it is. We have satellites that told us where it went. The NYT is dragging crap up that has already been run. This isn't "news" it's part of some TRANZI scheme to put Bush's body parts in the wringer. Hasn't worked so far. It's not likely to this time.
Posted by FlameBait 2005-03-14 12:51:03 AM|| [http://www.waldosworkshops.com]  2005-03-14 12:51:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sami al-Araji is a Saddam-era holdover. I don't really know why he's still working for the Iraqi government.
Posted by Zhang Fei  2005-03-14 1:57:59 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2005-03-14 1:57:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree. We knew about this in January 2003, before the invasion. The newsworthiness of this article is that the NYT admits that the stuff was there, it did exist, and it was taken elsewhere by people who knew exactly what they were doing -- by implication Saddam's people, at his orders, because who else would dare to order such a thing without his ok.

This makes it awfully difficult for the anti-Bushies to continue spouting their nonsense on the subject, now that the Newspaper of Record has weighed in on the Bush side, even though they had to wait for the U.N. report in order to do so.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-14 7:48:05 AM||   2005-03-14 7:48:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Logical consistency is not a requirement for those wackos, TW.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-14 8:20:32 AM||   2005-03-14 8:20:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm afraid, TW, that you've forgotten the principle of Doublethink. The far left can indeed say "There weren't any weapons" and "we misplanned so badly that all the weapons were stolen by the resistance" and see no logical fallacy there.
Posted by Jackal  2005-03-14 9:00:34 AM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2005-03-14 9:00:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Jackal, doublethink a.k.a cognitive disonance.

I am beginning to entertain an idea that moonbats have some form of genetically induced lobotomy and are, de facto, a different species. We can still interbreed, but frankly, do we want to?

They are also often called morlocks, which is both fitting and precognitive.
Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-14 3:34:35 PM||   2005-03-14 3:34:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Question: Will somebody please define "TRANZI?" I must have missed the original. Thanks.
Posted by mom 2005-03-14 3:48:53 PM||   2005-03-14 3:48:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Mom-- try this....

http://www.quebecoislibre.org/021221-6.htm

"It was David Carr, a London-based Libertarian, who provided the memorable nickname for Transnational Progressivists when he called them "Tranzis.""
Posted by Wuzzalib  2005-03-14 7:29:57 PM||   2005-03-14 7:29:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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