Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk

So what is 512 Tonnes of WMD?

Last night Ted Koppel gave a rather kind interview of David Kay. In the lead in they had audio clips of President Bush giving an "accounting" of Iraqi WMD's. In one instance he claimed that there were 512 tonnes of biological and or chemical agents. Recenlty David Kay, among others have back tracked and said that Iraq didn't have these things or the they've been sent to Syria. Remember now that the US had a enforced no fly zone over Iraq for 10 years which meant that there was only a small passage across Iraq in which 512 tonnes of material could be smuggled out of the country. The way Bush and co. made it sound, Iraq had these 512 tonnes of material right up until before the invasion. As I have asked before, how did spy satelies miss the donkeys carrying 512 tonnes of material? Maybe we don't really understand why 512 tonnes is. a small car such as a Toyota Tercell is easily 1 ton (2000 lbs = 1 short ton). If you imaging 512 Toyota Tercelles lined up or stacked up you'd get the picture of what 512 tonnes of chemical agent would be like. This stuff just up and disapeared without a trace? More perspective: Some time after the fall of Bagdhad there was a find of a so called 'Mobile lab." Clearly if this was a mobile lab it could be taken as the average size of Iraq's mobile lab capability. These were small trailers which means 512 of them were supposedly "out there." yet not one was found and what's worse of the one found it didn't even have chemical residue. For a country that was ready to spray American troops with chemicals and cells they were quite able to clean these "labs" to the point of leaving no forensic evidence of there ever being chemicals in use on or around the cart. Now THAT is a feat.

What I'm wondering is why the CIA and whatever other organizations responsible for gathering intelligence is allowing itself to be characterized as basic idiots. They are allowing thier world wide reputation get ripped apart and not even fighting back. That does not sound like the same CIA that some months ago was demanding to know who leaked info about thier operative. Nor does it sound like the CIA that repeatedly told us that certain information being given out by the Bush White House was wrong. Somebody is being protected in a big way.