[kg_veteran]

Originally Posted by Mavdog

first point is the news was not buried or overlooked/ignored, it was on primetime newscasts and also on the front page of most daily newspapers.

There is a clear and obvious distinction between the amount of coverage given to what should be a bombshell discovery and the coverage given to something like, for instance, a hunting accident in South Texas which happened to involve the Vice President.

It may as well have been ignored.

second, the tapes do not reveal anything further about the possible existence of any wmd in iraq or the possibility that they did n fact exist and were relocated to another friendly country before the invasion began.

You do realize that informed opinions differ on this, right?

nobody disagrees with the position that hussein wanted the wmd. the question is whether the sanctions and such were successful in keeping those weapons from being obtained/developed by iraq. so far the answer to the question is that iraq was unsuccessful in getting around the sanctions and there were not any wmd.

It's still an open question that hasn't been conclusively proven or disproven. My bet is that within the next few years it will come to light that the WMD were removed from Iraq pre-invasion with the assistance of one or more countries. The possibility that Russia was involved has been quite clear to me for some time, but that would clearly be a delicate situation that the U.S. would want to proceed with cautiously. If we're going to accuse Russia of helping Saddam hide the WMD, we need concrete and convincing evidence.