BB:

Charles Duelfer made the statement that "Whether Syria received military items from Iraq for safekeeping or other reasons has yet to be determined. There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, ...

Anything like the really great stuff we got from "Curveball" or al-Libi, perchance?

... and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved.

Ditto last comment.

In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to warrant further investigation. ... ISG was unable to complete its investigation and is unable to rule out the possibility that WMD was evacuated to Syria before the war. It should be noted that no information from debriefing of Iraqis in custody supports this possibility. ...

OK, BB, what to you infer from that?

Based on the evidence available at present, ISG judged that it was unlikely that an official transfer of WMD material from Iraq to Syria took place.

Don't know why you quote this, Bruce. It just make you look like a paranoid eedjit.

However, ISG was unable to rule out unofficial movement of limited WMD-related materials." [45]

And they were unable to rule out definitively the possibility that the Federated States of Micronesia have been secretly stockpiling nukes either. So to be on the safe side, why don't we just roll into Syria ASAP (hell, if Dubya gets a do-over, maybe he can manage not to f*** it up so completely), and then on and on and on and on around the world until every single nation that is not 'Murkah is given the sweet taste of our "democracy" just in case they have nukes and are pointing them at your own bedroom, Bruce....

You know, I think that I know what happened here: Dubya just loved Randy Newman's song "Political Science" when he was living his life of dissipation in his 20's ... but Dubya just didn't twig to Newman's rather high-brow form of humour (I think Newman may have been targetting mainly more than double digit IQs).

And FWIW, Brue, the U.S. knows precisely where an enormous quantity of WoMDs are stored. At U.S. military bases.

For instance, in WWII, the state of war with Germany did not end until 19 October 1951 and with Japan, not until 28 April 1952[102].

Ummm, missed the part in my history books where we lost 90% of our casualties post-surrender. "Quagmire Accomplished, Commander Condpiece!" Do tell, Bruce.

If Saddam had NOT been hiding prohibited programs, he would have opened his borders without resistance (as per the cease-fire terms) and allowed the US and coalition troops in UNOPPOSED to look all they wanted.

Problem with your logic here, Bruce: Despite the hallucinations of Dubya to the contrary (or was Dubya lyingdid comply.

IMHO. Of course, you do not seem to allow for anyone to HAVE an opinion that might be different from what YOU approve of.

Oh, you can have any "opinion" you want. But when you spout nonsense, we're going to point that out. That's how free speech works, Bruce. "Free speech" isn't Dubya twisting the arms of the networks to get his political stump speeches broadcast for free, pretending he's actually saying something worthwhile. Sepaking of which, any clue why Dubya thinks the same ol' speech, retreaded for the fourth or fifth time, is going to get different results (a notion you seem possessed of as well)? Isn't that the classic definition of stoopidity?

Cheers,