Tom Bombadil
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If they have been found, then yes it supports the argumentsof those who claim it was right to go to war.
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Wmd
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Northstander
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- Oct 13, 2003
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WMD -- Cracking hit "joan of arc" from the 80's....
OH hang on....that may have been OMD!
OH hang on....that may have been OMD!
alan partridge
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the uninformed said:
blimey this thread is really causing a lot of problems
i think you meant to say 'richie morris' there
the uninformed
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- Jul 27, 2004
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Yep. I did mean RM AP not GG.
Glad thats cleared up.
Glad thats cleared up.
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KIT NAPIER
Its seems that Easy and I weren't the only ones taken in by this OLD thread!!!!!
Looney really is a timeless twat!
Looney really is a timeless twat!
alan partridge
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the uninformed said:
NP TU
AP
US Seagull
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Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
SSSHHHHHHHHHHOn the Left Wing said:
There's no need to draw ATTENTION to it. People will be pointing.
And laughing.
alan partridge
Active member
*points*
HAHA
HAHA
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
See ?
SEE ? ? ?
*quietly sobs in the corner*
SEE ? ? ?
*quietly sobs in the corner*
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KIT NAPIER
* embarrassed silence*
readingstockport
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(snigger)
alan partridge
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ahhh the search function
Fallout from WMD search failure
By Nick Childs
BBC Pentagon correspondent
Duelfer confirmed in October there were no WMD stockpiles in Iraq
The White House has now officially acknowledged what the Washington Post first reported and what many probably assumed was the case anyway - the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is over, at least in any meaningful sense.
The search ended quietly just before Christmas when the chief inspector, Charles Duelfer, returned to the United States with no plans to head back to Iraq.
The weapons hunters - officially the Iraq Survey Group - have stopped physical searches.
Some are still sifting through a mountain of documents, and they'll pursue any leads. But nobody is really expecting the hunt to be revived.
Political fallout continues
There has been plenty of political fallout already from the non-appearance of weapons, for both Washington and London.
In essence, both had accepted that weapons weren't going to be found, and that the pre-war intelligence was wrong.
One senior long-time Democratic critic of the administration, Nancy Pelosi, has already said the president needs to explain to the American people why he was so wrong.
And the former United Nations chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, much criticised in the US by supporters of the war, has said the Bush administration needs to report back to the UN on this.
Focus shifts to insurgency
Mr Duelfer reported last October that he could find no evidence of weapons stockpiles or active programmes - although he said he believed Iraq's former leader, Saddam Hussein, still had the intention of reviving those programmes.
That was officially an interim report, although Mr Duelfer himself said he didn't think much would change, and many believed then that book was essentially closed.
Now, Mr Duelfer will make a few adjustments, which will be published in a few weeks.
They won't change his basic conclusions, but will now essentially be his final words on an issue which started out as the main reason for going to war with Iraq, but which turned into a huge embarrassment for the US and British governments.
The Iraq Survey Group now actually has more members than it's ever had - some 1,700 personnel.
But it's now focusing on trying to help with intelligence-gathering to counter the Iraqi insurgency - a much more immediate problem for the US military.
Fallout from WMD search failure
By Nick Childs
BBC Pentagon correspondent
Duelfer confirmed in October there were no WMD stockpiles in Iraq
The White House has now officially acknowledged what the Washington Post first reported and what many probably assumed was the case anyway - the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is over, at least in any meaningful sense.
The search ended quietly just before Christmas when the chief inspector, Charles Duelfer, returned to the United States with no plans to head back to Iraq.
The weapons hunters - officially the Iraq Survey Group - have stopped physical searches.
Some are still sifting through a mountain of documents, and they'll pursue any leads. But nobody is really expecting the hunt to be revived.
Political fallout continues
There has been plenty of political fallout already from the non-appearance of weapons, for both Washington and London.
In essence, both had accepted that weapons weren't going to be found, and that the pre-war intelligence was wrong.
One senior long-time Democratic critic of the administration, Nancy Pelosi, has already said the president needs to explain to the American people why he was so wrong.
And the former United Nations chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, much criticised in the US by supporters of the war, has said the Bush administration needs to report back to the UN on this.
Focus shifts to insurgency
Mr Duelfer reported last October that he could find no evidence of weapons stockpiles or active programmes - although he said he believed Iraq's former leader, Saddam Hussein, still had the intention of reviving those programmes.
That was officially an interim report, although Mr Duelfer himself said he didn't think much would change, and many believed then that book was essentially closed.
Now, Mr Duelfer will make a few adjustments, which will be published in a few weeks.
They won't change his basic conclusions, but will now essentially be his final words on an issue which started out as the main reason for going to war with Iraq, but which turned into a huge embarrassment for the US and British governments.
The Iraq Survey Group now actually has more members than it's ever had - some 1,700 personnel.
But it's now focusing on trying to help with intelligence-gathering to counter the Iraqi insurgency - a much more immediate problem for the US military.