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| "Big Impact" Plan |
| 2003-08-01 |
| The Pentagon adopted a new strategy in its search for Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. It is called the "big impact" plan. Shock and Awe Part II The plan calls for gathering and holding on to all the information now being collected about the weapons. Rather than releasing its findings piecemeal, defense officials will release a comprehensive report on the arms, perhaps six months from now. Just like we thought after all those initial reports seemed to vanish into a black hole. The goal of the strategy will be to quiet critics of the Bush administration who said claims of Iraq’s hidden weapons stockpiles were exaggerated in order to go to war. President Bush on Wednesday said "miles of documents" have been gathered and are being analyzed. He described the material as containing "mounds of evidence" on Iraq’s weapons. In addition to analyzing documents on Iraq’s arms, evidence of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s ties to terrorists is being studied, Mr. Bush said. "And I’m confident the truth will come out," he said. Heh, heh, heh. David Kay, the special adviser to CIA Director George J. Tenet on Iraq’s weapons said recently that the evidence is there. "I think in six months from now, we’ll have a considerable amount of evidence, and we’ll be starting to reveal that evidence," Mr. Kay said on NBC July 15. Yesterday, Mr. Kay rebutted a news report that claimed no Iraqi scientists were cooperating with the coalition team hunting for weapons in Iraq. In fact, Mr. Kay said, scientists are talking and are taking his personnel to specific sites. A Pentagon spokesman had no comment on the Iraq weapons plan. Let’s see, 6 months from now, what’s going to be happening then that this might have a affect on? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 This is great strategery. Not only will the evidence presented (if it exists) exonerate Bush admin and shame the naysayers...but it will also keep the naysayers from screaming "Bush Lied" in the interim, as they do not want to make their humiliation any worse, if and when the info is released. Brilliant! |
| Posted by: mjh 2003-8-1 2:01:28 PM |
| #5 No more dangling participles, please. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-1 12:42:24 PM |
| #4 "If ya hated my last SOTU, ya gonna luv the next one!" |
| Posted by: john 2003-8-1 11:54:31 AM |
| #3 Perfectly reasonable for GWB to report on this at the State of the Union address in January. After all, the search for WMD is really important -- we know this because the Democrats told us so. And we sure wouldn't want to disappoint the Democrats, would we? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-8-1 11:16:47 AM |
| #2 Why not just release the information so the public is informed and to hell with the politics? Wishful thinking, I know, but maybe just once someone could put the public above the politics. |
| Posted by: SPQR 2755 2003-8-1 11:11:46 AM |
| #1 Six months from now? State of the Union address. Earliest Democrat primaries. To influence the election, the report would have to be released between the conventions, or a couple of weeks after the final convention. Release it too early, and the Democrats might nominate someone who could viably run against the news. Release it too late, and the storm over the timing of the release will drown out the contents. Too near the convention, and it will never get reported. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-8-1 10:00:17 AM |