11:14:15 PM    comment   

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It seems silly to debate what is proved by these trailers. Key points in the story:

1. Alternate uses for the mobile labs (like hydrogen production) dismissed by multiple analysts. "Why would you have a covert program for filling weather balloons?" one official said
2. Even if the mobile labs were not for bio weapons production, they COULD be used for that purpose, yet they were undeclared by Iraq. Since these labs are pretty damning evidence, wouldn't Iraq have wanted to make sure to declare them if they weren't for weapons use? (Especially after Colin Powell mentioned these very labs in a speech to the UN?)
3. The labs were cleaned by an unidentified caustic agent. (For cleaning hydrogen residue???)
4. Production stamps indicate these labs were manufactured in 2001-2002. They aren't left over from 10 years ago when Iraq had an admitted Bio weapons program

We can debate the scale of Iraq's WMD program (it seems to not have been as massive as the pre war rhetoric would have had us believe,) but WHY try to deny hard evidence when we have it right here?

10:40:36 PM    comment