From: "George Sherwood" 

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:02:21 -0500, Robert G Lewis wrote:

> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:449a50ac{at}w3.nls.net...
>> It's always been a bit disingenuous, but in the face of the truth now
>> slowly
>> emerging from Iraq (e.g., the ambassador's memo) it's getting worse.
>> Today
>> for instance:
>>
>> "Report: 'Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq'..."
>>
>> Points to Fox:
>>
>> "'We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons,'
>> Sen.
>> Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said in a quickly called press conference late
>> Wednesday afternoon."
>>
>> And then, further down the Fox report:
>>
>> "Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior
>> Defense
>> Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in
>> useable conditions.
>>
>> 'This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991,' the
>> official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this
country and the
>> rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this
>> country
>> went to war.'"
>>
>> Will  the American people read beyond the headline?
>>
>> --
>>  Phil Payne
>>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>>  +44 7833 654 800
>>
>>
>
> Not as much as we should.
>
> I wonder what's in the rest of the report, and if a political appointee
> wrote it or edited it.

The report was written by the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center
not in DC. Probably not any appointees there.  It isn't the administration
pushing this report it is mostly a few Congressmen.

George

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