IRAQI WEAPONS IGNORED...SO WHAT'S NEW?

Next time one of the Old Media Men (Peter, Dan, or Tom) talks about the "group think" of the Bush administration, they need to be reminded of their own "bias bubble" concerning reports about Iraqi WMD. Since long before the war started the Old Media have been silent on reports that the WMDs had been transported into Syria and Lebanon.

The following report (read the entire article) never made it to the Old Media:

October 18, 2004: Charles Duelfer told the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month he could not rule out Saddam's transfer of Iraqi missiles and weapons of mass destruction to Syria.

But that's not the first report (read the entire article) that Saddam had been hiding his WMDs in Syria:

February 2, 2004: Indeed the US administration and its intelligence agencies, as well as Dr Kay, were all provided with Syrian maps marked with the coordinates of the secret weapons storage sites. The largest one is located at Qaratshuk at the heart of a desolate and unfrequented region edged with marshes, south of the Syrian town of Al Qamishli near the place where the Iraqi, Syrian and Turkish frontiers converge; smaller quantities are hidden in the vast plain between Al Qamishli and Az Zawr, and a third is under the ground of the Lebanese Beqaa Valley on the Syrian border.

These transfers were first revealed in February 2003 a month before the war. We also discovered that a Syrian engineering corps unit was detailed to dig their hiding places in northern Syria and the Lebanese Beqaa.

But that's not the first report (read the entire article) that Saddam had been hiding his WMDs in Syria:

January 8, 2004: Nizar Najoef, a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, to Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf,” that he knows the three sites where Iraq’s WMD are kept.

But, wait, there's more. One of the most dangerous terrorist groups is Hisballah. Hisballah and Hamas have terrorized Iraelis with relentless attacks with homicide bombers and mortar and rockets launchings. It is well documented that Syria and Iran have supported Hisballah terrorism with finances, training and material. Well, my fellow citizens, it looks like Iraq was helping out a bit as well, as far back as 2002. Read the entire article here:

December 30, 2002: The powerful blast that reverberated across eastern and central Lebanon Sunday, December 29, was caused by the explosion of a big surface missile in Hizballah hands and of Iraqi origin. Reporting this, DEBKAfile’s exclusive military and Lebanese sources reveal that the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group has recently taken delivery of a shipment of surface missiles, presumed to be medium-range, from the Iraqi army.