{"id":214,"date":"2006-07-01T01:23:38","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2006-07-01T01:23:38","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T08:23:38","slug":"did-iraqs-wmds-come-from-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Did Iraq’s WMDs Come from Texas?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I promised that my next post would be non-political, but then my friend Dave Kraft sent me the following, from the Wayne Masden Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

June 28, 2006 — WMR has reported on the explosive information from two Iraqi War Army counter-intelligence veterans that they uncovered materials and documents proving that some of Saddam Hussein’s chemical and biological weapons were provided in 1988 by The Carlyle Group, through Spanish and French intermediaries. WMR has learned that pre-cursor and recombinant chemicals used in Iraqi WMDs were provided by a Texas petrochemical company and a chemical\/biological toxin firm in which George H. W. Bush held and continues to hold a financial stake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I gather this site is the lefty equivalent of Drudge, so it’s probably advisable to take its reportage with a grain of salt, or perhaps the entire Bonneville Salt Flats. But if any of this very long article is even *remotely* true, it’s — well, not dynamite, exactly — something a little more destructive and massier. (Colbert disease. Sorry.)<\/p>\n

There’s also a very funny item about the alleged W\/Condi tryst, which the Globe<\/em> tabloid now seems to be hawking on a regular basis. I don’t take this very seriously, but — who knows? It was the tabloids that broke the Gennifer Flowers story, too.<\/p>\n

On a completely unrelated note, I saw “Superman Returns” Friday. It’s not bad. If you’re favorably inclined toward the character and the Donner\/Reeve interpretation thereof, chances are you’ll enjoy it. (The film is not without its nits — most glaringly the total waste of Parker Posey as a Miss-Tessmacher-except-without-a-personality character — but I’ll leave the picking to others for now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I promised that my next post would be non-political, but then my friend Dave Kraft sent me the following, from the Wayne Masden Report: June 28, 2006 — WMR has reported on the explosive information from two Iraqi War Army counter-intelligence veterans that they uncovered materials and documents proving that some of Saddam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}