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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (11643)2/4/2006 4:54:31 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
About those WMDs

By Daniel McKivergan
WorldwideStandard.com

Today's New York Sun has an interesting quote from Wayne White, the former deputy director in the Office of Analysis for Near East and South Asia in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
    Mr. Feith's view that questions remain about Iraq's 
weapons program is also held by the State Department's
chief of Iraq intelligence between 2003 and 2005, Wayne
White. In an interview this week, Mr. White, said, "Just
as the pre-war WMD intelligence was largely wrong, the
conclusion after the war that absolutely nothing was in
Iraq could also be wrong."
    ...Mr. White, who counts himself as a critic of the 
president's decision to go to war, is confident that
organized looting from the regime occurred in the first
weeks after the invasion. "Efforts were taken by remnants
of the Iraqi intelligence services and Republican Guard
to destroy portions of sites known to be associated with
WMD," he said. "What does that tell you? If there was
nothing to hide, why were these sites destroyed? Obviously
there was something there.
There is evidence to suggest
there were files and perhaps even equipment that was
destroyed aggressively in the months following the fall
of Baghdad."
    Mr. White says that in those months after the launch of 
the war he would often sit in weekly meetings to go over
the Iraq intelligence, hear repeated reports of sites
systematically looted or destroyed, and shake his
head. "I was not making much of this at the time and it
was pointless. In most cases I was turning to a person
sitting next to me, thinking it was over. Game over. The
main problem we had at the time was [the] insurgency," he
said.
White's observations were also reflected in a New York Times piece published last March. The article, “Looting at Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Iraqi Says,” reported on a “highly organized operation,” which apparently took place from mid-April to mid-May 2003 at Iraqi weapons sites,
    “as teams with flatbed trucks and other heavy equipment 
moved systematically from site to site,” collecting “tons
of machinery...capable of making parts for missiles as
well as chemical, biological and nuclear arms....”
To be continued?

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