History is being made by the likes of Joseph Shahda and other bloggers who are on top of this.
Citizens are doing the grunt work and citizens will decide, on the common sense that helps us carry this country on our collective backs, what to believe. We run this country. We can figure it out.
With a little help from dedicated souls like Joseph Shahda.
Below, the remaining documents and links translated by Shahda as of this writing:
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Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
Amazing stuff, Pat. Thanks for posting the links. I hope you'll keep us updated. Wish I could comment on Free Republic, but I've been permanently banned for being too liberal.
Of the documents translated thus far, many are just confirmation of things we already knew, but #3 and #4 of your links above are very significant because of their late dates, especially #4 which seems to refer to the mobile WMD labs which everyone has been denying the existence of.
Dave
2 - Pat Fish
Go on, Dave. YOU were too liberal for FreeRepublic? Wow.
And you got "zotted"?
Heh.
3 - Dave Nalle
Perhaps it was that I was too Libertarian. They tend to be pretty hard line religious right types.
I find their way of banning people particularly annoying. They ban your IP in such a way that you can't even respond to the message they send you telling you that you've been banned or use the email link on the site. And then they don't respond to emails sent by any other means, not even to tell you WHY you got banned.
Dave
4 - sujatha
Pat, this is "history-making" all right. An eye-opener this one. Thanks.
5 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
Pat, I haven't read the links yet, but given all the arguments over Iraq, I hope people take the trouble to go to this article to get to the links and READ them.
Mazel Tov! You did a great job.
Shabbat Shalom,
Reuven
6 - fntstc4
I am unclear as to Iraq's development of anthrax under Saddam. Did he or didn't he develop and use anthrax? Does anybody out there know this answer?
7 - Dave Nalle
He definitely HAD live anthrax and within the last 5 years. That's been definitively established by these documents. And if he had the anthrax that means he had to also have the labs and facilities to keep the culture alive, and that suggests that he had the capability to weaponize it. The accepted view seems to be that he did not produce weaponized anthrax in substantial volume, however.
Dave
8 - Stephen
Iraq only ever produced liquid bulk anthrax with a 2/3-year shelf life. Its last remaining stocks were unilaterally destroyed in 1991.