Actually, there's evidence that the US attempted to do just that, but they kept getting busted. The materials they “found” would be scrutinized for point of origin and the Military would have to have been very careful on account of so much suspicion that they might try such a thing. An example of how closely other countries were watching is evidenced in the following article.Antaine wrote:here's food for thought...I think the surest indication that the whole deal was not as diabolically engineered as the conspiracy theorists are saying it was is that we didn't find any. Had we gone in knowing that there wasn't anything to find we'd've imported something and "found" it.
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U.S. Unloading WMD in Iraq
Tehran Times
March 13, 2004
TEHRAN (Mehr News Agency) Over the past few days, in the wake of the bombings in Karbala and the ideological disputes that delayed the signing of Iraqís interim constitution, there have been reports that U.S. forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the southern ports of Iraq.
A reliable source from the Iraqi Governing Council, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Mehr News Agency that U.S. forces, with the help of British forces stationed in southern Iraq, had made extensive efforts to conceal their actions.
He added that the cargo was unloaded during the night as attention was still focused on the aftermath of the deadly bombings in Karbala and the signing of Iraqís interim constitution.
The source said that in order to avoid suspicion, ordinary cargo ships were used to download the cargo, which consisted of weapons produced in the 1980s and 1990s.
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I think the US thought it would find something, but they had to start coming up with a different spin when they realized that Saddam had actually destroyed all of Iraq's WMDs to take away any pretext for US invasion. Iraq's weapon's chief, Kammal, indicated just that in his affidavit to US intelligence after defecting to Lebanon. Powell left that part of Kammal's testimony out of his case for invading Iraq presented to the UN Security Council of course.
interesting visual!