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Thread ID: 12013 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2004-01-24
2004-01-24 01:12 | User Profile
Of course, it's not importnat. The Dean whoop is important. Two helicopter pilots dead today. Not a word. The media sucks. Another duh!
Got this alert from TVNL earlier today. WHY is this not on every major new broadcast? More duh's!:
TVNL Comment: This should be the top story of the day yet we do not expect the TV pretend news networks to give it much play. David Kay, the Bush administrations weapons inspector sent to Iraq to do the job that they claimed that the United Nations was not able to do: find WMDs in Iraq.
Well, David Kay quit. He also came out today and said that there were NO WMDs, NO STOCKPILES, he doubted that they ever existed and he did not believe that Iraq produced much during the 90s. CNN reports this story by simply mentioning that David Kay is being replaced today. No other details were mentioned by Wolf Blitzer, instead he chose to focus on how Howard Dean handles the media. So tell us again how CNN is not bias? Bill Oââ¬â¢Reilly had promised on the Today Show last May that if no WMDs were found he would eat his hat and he would never trust the Bush administration again. Well Bill, what are you waiting for?
Note: In his SOTU speech, BUSH LIED about Kay's report. Cheney has made the rounds of TV shows claiming that WMD's WILL be found! Not a word from the media.
Article located here: [url]http://tvnewslies.org/html/news.html[/url]
"Ex-Arms Hunter Kay Says No WMD Stockpiles in Iraq - In a direct challenge to the Bush administration, which says its invasion of Iraq was justified by the presence of illicit arms, Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview he had concluded there were no Iraqi stockpiles to be found. - "I don't think they existed," Kay said. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the nineties," he said."
2004-01-24 13:22 | User Profile
Ex-Arms Hunter Kay Says No WMD Stockpiles in Iraq Fri January 23, 2004 03:29 PM ET
By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - David Kay stepped down as leader of the U.S. hunt for banned weapons in Iraq on Friday and said he did not believe the country had any large stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons.
In a direct challenge to the Bush administration, which says its invasion of Iraq was justified by the presence of illicit arms, Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview he had concluded there were no Iraqi stockpiles to be found.
"I don't think they existed," Kay said. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the nineties," he said.
The CIA announced earlier that former U.N. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer, who has previously expressed doubts that unconventional weapons would be found, would succeed Kay as Washington's chief arms hunter.
Kay said he believes most of what was going to be found in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has been found and that the hunt would become more difficult once America returned control of the country to the Iraqis.
The United States went to war against Baghdad last year citing a threat from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. To date, no banned arms have been found.
In his annual State of the Union on Tuesday, President Bush insisted that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had actively pursued dangerous programs right up to the start of the U.S. attack in March.
Citing a report to Congress in October, Bush said Kay had found "dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities and significant amounts of equipment that Iraq concealed from the United Nations."
"Had we failed to act," Bush said, "the dictator's weapons of mass destruction programs would continue to this day."
JURY STILL OUT
And on Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney said the United States had not given up on finding unconventional weapons in Iraq. "The jury is still out," he said in a radio interview.
Kay said he left the post due to a "complex set of issues. It related in part to a reduction in the resource and a change in focus of ISG," he said referring to the Iraq Survey Group, which is in charge of the weapons hunt.
ISG analysts were diverted from hunting for weapons of mass destruction to helping in the fight against the insurgency, Kay said.
"When I had started out I had made it a condition that ISG be exclusively focused on WMD, that's no longer so," he said.
"We're not going to find much after June. Once the Iraqis take complete control of the government it is just almost impossible to operate in the way that we operate," Kay said.
"I think we have found probably 85 percent of what we're going to find," he said. "I think the best evidence is that they did not resume large-scale production and that's what we're really talking about."
Kay said he was going back to the private sector.
In a statement announcing Kay's departure, CIA Director George Tenet praised Kay for his "extraordinary service under dangerous and difficult circumstances."
Duelfer, 51, a former deputy executive chairman of the U.N. Special Commission that was responsible for dismantling Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, had previously expressed doubts that unconventional weapons would be found.
"I think that Mr. Kay and his team have looked very hard. I think the reason that they haven't found them is they're probably not there," Duelfer told NBC television earlier this month.
But in a statement included in the CIA announcement, Duelfer, who will be based in Iraq and as CIA special adviser to direct the WMD search, said he was keeping an open mind.
"I'm approaching it with an open mind and am absolutely committed to following the evidence wherever it takes us," he said.
[url]http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=4197764&fromEmail=true[/url]
O'Reilly has been asked about this and has given an explaination. Unfortunately, I found it to be less than forthcoming. Sylver, this is a good find.
2004-01-24 18:22 | User Profile
Wolf Blitzer - an American?
From my book:[QUOTE]Then there was Wolf Blitzer of the football name who worked the Pentagon for CNN. Mr. Blitzer was born in Buffalo and studied in the United States. Rather than serve in the American military, Mr. Blitzer ran away to Israel where he avoided Vietnam. There he distinguished himself by serving in the Israeli Self-Defense Force and later joined the Jerusalem Post as its Washington correspondent. While covering a speech from one time South Dakota Senator James Abourezk, Wolf Blitzer had written for the newsletter of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee that if Abourezk's position would prevail, "[COLOR=Red]Israel's life would be jeopardized". [/COLOR] This was caused by the Senator's concern for Arab refugees in the Middle East. How could any American military officer trust a Jew who deserted his country and chose to serve another? Yet Mr. Blitzer represented the American military to much of the world. [/QUOTE] The Blitzers in the media have lied and will continue to lie on behalf of Israel.
2004-01-24 18:24 | User Profile
Wolf Blitzer - an American?
From my book:[QUOTE]Then there was Wolf Blitzer of the football name who worked the Pentagon for CNN. Mr. Blitzer was born in Buffalo and studied in the United States. Rather than serve in the American military, Mr. Blitzer ran away to Israel where he avoided Vietnam. There he distinguished himself by serving in the Israeli Self-Defense Force and later joined the Jerusalem Post as its Washington correspondent. While covering a speech from one time South Dakota Senator James Abourezk, Wolf Blitzer had written for the newsletter of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee that if Abourezk's position would prevail, [COLOR=Red]"Israel's life would be jeopardized[/COLOR]". This was caused by the Senator's concern for Arab refugees in the Middle East. How could any American military officer trust a Jew who deserted his country and chose to serve another? Yet Mr. Blitzer represented the American military to much of the world. [/QUOTE] The Blitzers in the media have lied and will continue to lie on behalf of Israel.
2004-01-24 19:00 | User Profile
Kay told Reuters in a telephone interview he had concluded there were no Iraqi stockpiles to be found. "I don't think they existed," Kay said
I think most of the members of this forum knew even before the gulf war that there were no stockpiles of so-called WMDs in Iraq.
Neocons have been floading the idea that Saddam was fooled by his scientists into thinking he had WMDs. The depths of willful stupidity that the warmongering neocons are willing to go boggles the mind.
2004-01-24 22:22 | User Profile
Happy,
I'm still waiting for them to find those 30,000 artillery shells and rockets that Bush told us about. They don't find these because they were destroyed after the first gulf fiasco, but why should the neo-cons allow the truth to interfer with the next prepared lie, that they are in Iran and/or Syria?
The great neo-con easter egg hunt continues.
Sylver,
Your comment about O'Reilly reminded me of another of FOX's all stars, one Paul Vallery, M.G. (retired) He came on O'Reilly's show and stated that they have proof that Hussein moved the unconventional ordinance to Syria and that the French were providing passports to Hussein's people. He said that he would reveal the proof of this in two weeks, I recall. That was in May and he hasn't said a word yet about this since that revelation and to my knowlege O'Reilly hasn't asked him for a follow up either.
2004-01-25 01:52 | User Profile
[Satire; not for small pets or quiche eaters]:
Ira Goldsteinwitzfeldnikbergbaum: "But-but-but -- America's sacking of Iraq keeps Israel safe! That's all that matters! God's Chosen are safer now! Who cares about the goyim...oops, heh, heh...I mean, uhh, it's too bad about those brave gentile soldiers who died in Iraq.....what? Why didn't Israel use their own soldiers to attack Iraq? Are you crazy?? Jews don't fight wars. Jews get America to fight wars for the Jews. Remember WWI? [1] WWII? [2]Riiiight...."
[1] Balfour Declaration
[2] FDR's Jewish cabal
2004-01-25 06:05 | User Profile
Franco,
People don't realize that there is alot of truth in your satire above. I heard simpleton Sean (Hannity) tell his brain dead "freeper" audience" back in early april that one of the reasons that the Iraqi museums were looted instead of being safeguarded by the occupying authority (us) was because "our troops are defending Israel." I bet he got a nice pat on the head from his "good friend" Netanyahu for that.
2004-01-27 08:30 | User Profile
I heard O'Reilly selling that "the scientists were hoodwinking Saddam" gobbage on there before. He was also trying to pin the blame on the CIA, rather than the jewww filth Boosh put in the Pentagon to cherrypick the WMD "evidence' that would give them the excuse they needed to have their long-sought war of revenge. Ol' Shill said anyone who calls the Chimp a liar now is lying themselves.
I loathe that bigmouthed, cowardly bastard.
2004-01-28 14:29 | User Profile
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