‘I found Saddam’s WMD bunkers’
Melanie Phillips talks to Dave Gaubatz, a former US Air Force special agent, who passed on vital intelligence to the Iraq Survey Group — and is dismayed that nothing happened
It’s a fair bet that you have never heard of a guy called Dave Gaubatz. It’s also a fair bet that you think the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found absolutely nothing, nada, zilch; and that therefore there never were any WMD programmes in Saddam’s Iraq to justify the war ostensibly waged to protect the world from Saddam’s use of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
Dave Gaubatz, however, says that you could not be more wrong. Saddam’s WMD did exist. He should know, because he found the sites where he is certain they were stored. And the reason you don’t know about this is that the American administration failed to act on his information, ‘lost’ his classified reports and is now doing everything it can to prevent disclosure of the terrible fact that, through its own incompetence, it allowed Saddam’s WMD to end up in the hands of the very terrorist states against whom it is so controversially at war.
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Steg Stegsson
March 7th, 2008 6:04pmI've printed this article out, it's been a great help to me. Every time I bump into a Melanie Philips rant, I just re-read this piece and realise objective research is not Philips' strong point.
DaveK
May 1st, 2008 10:00pmLOL, you're dead right there. These are the rantings of an obsessive compulsive and she's just swallowed the lot whole. Without a hint of corroborating evidence. Just because someone has worked for military intelligence doesn't mean they aren't a liar - in fact, it means they quite specifically are and have been paid and rewarded for being one for many years.
Gaubatz, incidentally, is currently seeking to raise money for some daft crusade or other.
There's more reason to believe there were fairies and loch ness monsters in Iraq than WMDs.