Delusion on a psychotic scale

[Sticky]

In the face of all the evidence, the Iraq Survey Group is still searching for WMD

David Leigh and David Pallister
Friday June 4, 2004
The Guardian

The dustbin of history is crammed full these days. Head-first into the garbage has just gone Ahmed Chalabi, would-be leader of Iraq, now accused of treachery against the US and of peddling disinformation about non-existent weapons of mass destruction.
Into the bin with him has gone, as we all know by now, a chimerical tangle of irrelevant pipework: so-called aluminium tubes for nuclear bombs; so-called mobile laboratories for spreading germs; alleged rockets to fire off poison gas within 45 minutes. All these have proved non-existent.

George Tenet, director of the CIA, is the latest to take a dive into historical oblivion, announcing his resignation yesterday. His intelligence agency failed to prevent September 11; did not persuade the US president of the truth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction; and may yet prove to have murdered at least one Iraqi inmate at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

Amid all this mass clear-out of failures and lies, however, there is one mysterious omission. A secretive CIA-led intelligence body set up to look for stockpiles of Saddam's secret weapons, the Iraq Survey Group, is still going strong. This is despite the resignation of its head, David Kay, last January, who said with admirable crispness: "We were all wrong."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1231152,00.html

[DenverDem]

1. Murdochian newscorpse fascist propaganda.

When The People finally rise up, burning the faux and newscorpse buildings worldwide should be second or third on the list of things to do.

[Miss Authoritiva]

2. This poses an interesting dilemma.

Bush and Blair still maintain that WMDs (or the even whispier "evidence of WMD-related program activities") exist in Iraq. If the US, Britain, and the other coalition members leave Iraq without any evidence being found, does this mean that Bush and Blair will admit that (1) they were wrong and no such WMDs or WMD-related program activities existed, or (2) essentially, they're leaving Iraq armed with WMDs?

[acmavm]

3. They're not looking for them,they're planting them (so the rumor goes).

Does anyone believe that this is possible? Or probable? I wouldn't put it past them.