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June 22, 2003

The Terrorist Arms Distribution Plan

President Bush, trying again to explain the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, said on Saturday that suspected arms sites had been looted in the waning days of Saddam Hussein's rule. — Reuters

So, our invasion of Iraq resulted in the uncontrolled distribution of the weapons of mass destruction that we invaded to make ourselves safer from? Oh joy. I continue to feel just safer and safer because of this war.

Posted by D. Weinberger at June 22, 2003 10:09 AM

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Come to think of it, you're right. We were so much safer back when we, and the rest of the world, were dancing to the tune of a genocidal lunatic.

Posted by: j. a. marrit | June 22, 2003 11:30 AM

More fallout (so to speak) from the Rumsfeld Doctrine....

Posted by: ralph | June 22, 2003 12:44 PM

So, in other words, the President of the United States just admitted that the war was an abject failure.

Posted by: The One True b!X's PORTLAND COMMUNIQUE | June 22, 2003 05:05 PM

They've been moved! Destroyed! Looted! Burnt! (Burnt? Surely you can't just burn weapons of mass destruction and have no one notice? Wouldn't they, like, go 'bang' quite a lot?)

I wonder how ludicrous Bush's claims about what happened to these alleged wmds will become before someone officially admits that Iraq probably didn't have any in the first place.

They were stolen by aliens! Teleported to a different location! Dematerialised by Iraqi psychics!!

Posted by: suw | June 22, 2003 05:42 PM

Hi, I hope that you might be interested in the Mine Advisory Group's statistics regarding the number of civilians being killed or injured by unexploded munitions in Iraq, and Landmine Action's call for new international laws requiring combatants to clean up their unexploded bombs and landmines once a war is over...

If you are interested please see here for more details:

http://earth-info-net.blogspot.com/#200439472

Best wishes

Matt Prescott

Earth-Info.Net

Posted by: Matt | June 22, 2003 06:49 PM

"To complain about the absence of WMDs at this point would be like having liberated Auschwitz during WWII only to grouse that there wasn't any cylon-b in the concentration camp, just dead bodies." - Roger L. Simon.

Posted by: Richard Bennett | June 23, 2003 08:19 PM

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