February 13, 2004

Josh Marshall: rewriting history...
Posted by Jon Henke

I'm finding it difficult to make any excuses for Josh Marshall....

...tonight we're awarding Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM) the first annual Heather Wilson "I think the American people are a bunch of god-forsaken idiots" Award.

Last night, Wilson was on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 show, carrying water for the president on the WMD shenanigans. ...

After detailing all the reasons why the president's pre-war rationales for war make sense in retrospect, she uncorked this beauty. "And to me," she told CNN's Heidi Collins, "the most important thing was his biological weapons program, which we've now confirmed he was continuing to pursue up to the day of the invasion, and the ability to deliver those biological weapons against Americans on American soil."

An on-going biological weapons program? Really ... Continuing research into delivery systems for biological weapons attacks on the United States mainland?
She really needs to bring her data to David Kay and the president. The president, I think, would find Wilson's new findings really helpful right now.

In all seriousness, where do they get these jokers? Lie, lie, lie.

Josh Marshall is either lying, or pig-ignorant. I see no other possibilities.

Let's review her statements: "his biological weapons program, which we've now confirmed he was continuing to pursue up to the day of the invasion". Did he continue to pursue biological weapons programs? Yep:

With regard to biological warfare activities, which has been one of our two initial areas of focus, ISG teams are uncovering significant information - including research and development of BW-applicable organisms, the involvement of Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) in possible BW activities, and deliberate concealment activities. All of this suggests Iraq after 1996 further compartmentalized its program and focused on maintaining smaller, covert capabilities that could be activated quickly to surge the production of BW agents.

Debriefings of IIS officials and site visits have begun to unravel a clandestine network of laboratories and facilities within the security service apparatus. This network was never declared to the UN and was previously unknown.

And George Tenet backs that up....
What do we know today? Last fall the Iraqi Survey Group uncovered, quote, "significant information, including research and development of biological weapons, applicable organisms, the involvement of the Iraqi intelligence service in possible biological weapons activities and deliberate concealment activities."

All of this suggests that Iraq, after 1996, further compartmentalized its program and focused on maintaining smaller covert capabilities that could be activated quickly to surge the production of biological weapons agents.

The Iraq Survey Group found a network of laboratories and safe houses controlled by Iraqi intelligence and security services that contained equipment for chemical and biological research and a prison laboratory complex possibly used in human testing for biological weapons agents that were not declared to the United Nations.

Finally, she didn't say a damned thing about "Continuing research into delivery systems for biological weapons attacks on the United States mainland"....she said "the ability to deliver those biological weapons" against America.

Need I remind you, one doesn't need an ICBM to deliver a vial of biological products a few thousand miles. A suitcase and an airplane will do the job nicely. Or a ship.

In all seriousness, where does he get this nonsense? Lie, lie, lie.

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RE: delivery systems.

From Tenet's Speech:

"Since the war we have found an Aggressive Iraqi missile program concealed from the international community.

In fact, David Kay just last fall said the IRaq Survey Group, quote, "discovered sufficient evidence to date to conclude that the Iraqi regime was committeed to delivery system improvements that would have, if Operation Iraqi Freedom had not occurred, dramatically breached UN restrictions placed on Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War."

We have also found that Iraq had plans and advanced design work for a liquid-propellant missile with ranges of up to 1,000 kilometers; activity that Iraq did not report to the UN and which could have placed large portions of the MIddle East in jeopardy.

We have confirmed that Iraq had new work under on prohibited solid-propellant missiels that were also concealed from the United Nations.

Significantly, the Iraq Survey Group has also confirmed prewar intelligence that Iraq was in secret negotiations with North Korea to obtain some of its most dangerous missile technology.

My provisional bottom line on missiles: We were generally on target."

Posted by: bob at February 13, 2004 08:28 AM