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...years ago, UN Weapons Inspector Jack McGeorge was nearly forced to resign when the Washington Post exposed his connections to SM/Leather/Fetish advocacy groups. Last month, a Kansas City Holiday Inn shut down a costume ball for fetish enthusiasts 24 hours before the event after a Fox News reporter called the hotel with a question about the party...
...former Iraqi administrator Paul Bremer said the U.S. had not sent enough troops during the early days of the occupation to prevent the rampant looting that took place then as well as the sense of lawlessness that now rules portions of the country. Most explosive of all was weapons inspector Charles Duelfer's 918-page CIA report on Saddam's weapons, which concluded that while the Iraqi leader had wanted weapons of mass destruction, he destroyed his stockpiles after the 1991 Gulf War and had no programs or materials to make new ones anytime soon...
...concluded that "Iraq was within striking distance of a de facto end to the sanctions regime," which would have allowed Saddam to break loose and rearm. But the report also noted that Saddam "had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions." As former inspector David Kay noted on the Today show, Saddam "had a lot of intent. He didn't have capabilities. Intent without capabilities is not an imminent threat." While Bush had always been careful not to call the threat from Iraq imminent, Duelfer's report certainly made it seem more distant...
...among them for millenniums. But the Saddam who emerges from the pages of a new, comprehensive CIA report on Iraq's alleged arsenal will be remembered for the colossal misjudgments that cost him his rule. The exhaustive detail compiled by the report's author, Charles Duelfer, chief U.N. weapons inspector in the 1990s and the Bush Administration's top hunter since January, richly fills in the previous portrait of a paranoid and brutal dictator who believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were the prime tools with which to advance his extravagant ambitions. Drawn from lengthy interrogations of the core...
...ronery,” the dictator sings from atop his balcony, having just sent UN weapons inspector Hans Blix into a pool of sharks to be decapitated. “No one takes me seriously. When I rule the world maybe they’ll notice...