Posted by: wfaulk
Surprise! No WMD! - 15/05/2003 07:51
Frustrated, U.S. Arms Team to Leave Iraq: Task Force Unable To Find Any Weapons
Big shocker, huh?
My favorite section of the article (which seems to be a little apologetic):
Also:
Big shocker, huh?
My favorite section of the article (which seems to be a little apologetic):
[Col.] McPhee [CO of the task force, apparently] saw early in the war that the looters were stripping his targets before he could check them. He cut the planning cycle for new missions -- the time between first notice and launch -- from 96 to 24 hours. "What we found," he said, was that "as the maneuver units hit a target they had to move on, even 24 hours was too slow. By the time we got there, a lot of things were gone."So apparently, looters were busy stealing all the uranium, plutonium, anthrax, and botulinum. Maybe they had a real bad cosmetic surgery problem.
Also:
One thing analysts must reconsider, [an unnamed Defense Intelligence Agency officer] said, is: "What was the nature of the threat?"So, in other words, now that we've defeated Iraq, we need to figure out why it is that we attacked in the first place.