On Planting WMDs-"Well, now we know. They tried."

WMDs
I've been curious for some time why Bush and his PNAC cohorts didn't just plant some weapons materials in order to meet the claimed justification for war (or at least their second one). Apparently, a team of spooks were asked to do so, and refused:http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Secretive_military_unit_sought_to_solve_0105.html

During the summer of 2003 through the fall of 2003, the team, whose members who were not named by sources, is said to have interviewed many Iraqi intelligence and former intelligence officers. The UN source says that the political problem discussed had more to do with solving the lack of WMD than anything else.

"They come in the summer of 2003, bringing in Iraqis, interviewing them," the UN source said. "Then they start talking about WMD and they say to that 'Our President is in trouble. He went to war saying there are WMD and there are no WMD. What can we do? Can you help us?'"

The source said intelligence officers understood quickly what they were being asked to do and that the assumption was they were being asked to provide WMD in order for coalition forces to find them.

"But the guys were thinking this is absurd because anything put down would not pass the smell test and could be shown to be not of Iraqi origin and not using Iraqi methodology," the source added.

Well, now we know. They tried.

Just a hunch, but I wonder if Valerie Plame had any association with these intelligence officers. Any thoughts from aspiring plameologists out there?
http://dissent.blogspot.com/

We have the expertise to put those nuclear weapons anywhere we want to. We also have the most advanced nuclear weapons in the world.

Read through this DU post in the 9/11 forum to see what could have happened on 9/11.

That is all.

this the summer after the bombing started... I'll need to google it and see if I can find it again.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_12-8-2003_pg1_9


Tuesday, August 12, 2003

US tried to plant WMDs, failed: whistleblower

Daily Times Monitor

According to a stunning report posted by a retired Navy Lt Commander and 28-year veteran of the Defense Department (DoD), the Bush administration’s assurance about finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was based on a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) plan to “plant” WMDs inside the country. Nelda Rogers, the Pentagon whistleblower, claims the plan failed when the secret mission was mistakenly taken out by “friendly fire”, the Environmentalists Against War report.

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Can't vouch for how this stands up to the test of time, but there ya go...

Only to have terrorists slip away with all of it before the regular Army showed up to find it!

These may be the teams whose plans to plant WMDs in Iraq were foiled.

From a related thread in the LBN - Enjoy!!! and send a thanks to PP

your welcome

for this!!!!!!