Are we witnessing a trend? This weekend, a number of "Where are the WMD's", and "Misuse of intelligence" stories hit the wires, capping off a week of related stories. This
one is typical: (excerpts)
The Bush administration pushed for war against Iraq last fall because of weapons of mass destruction despite a secret Pentagon report it did not have enough "reliable information" Iraq was amassing chemical weapons, a defense official said on Friday.
... a U.S. defense official confirmed a sentence in the report that said the DIA did not have enough "reliable information" that Iraq had chemical weapons.
"It (the report) talks about the fact that at the time in September 2002 we could not specifically pin down individual facilities operating as part of the weapons of mass destruction programs, specifically the chemical warfare portion,"
Republican Sen. John Warner urged Americans to trust the administration's claims. "I make the appeal to the American people to continue to repose trust in this administration as we go forward (in the search)."
ADDENDUM: Just for fun, we entered "WMD" into Yahoo's
search-for-stories, and came up with this:
And that's not counting the
Trailers-of-mystery.
posted by Quiddity at 6/07/2003 02:20:00 PM 
