"No Evidence WhatSoEver" (Except in Pentagon Documents) There's alot of excitement over at the DailyKos about Steve Colbert's performance at the annual White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night, most of the diaries on the recommended list are lauding him.

I think the Colbert Report's funny; he spares neither left nor right in his ascerbic comments, although like Jon Stewart, he tends to lean left. But, by all means, click to the title link if you want to read Editor&Publisher's slightly cloying article about Colbert -- and click here, with a barf bag, for the slew of DailyKos recommended diaries about the event.

Unfortunately, Saturday night, Colbert apparently made some remarks about the "missing WMD's." Except the evidence is quietly mounting that they're not really missing -- and nobody in the media is really following the new information.

Robin's been following JVeritas, an everyday American citizen who's been coming home from work every day, to sit at his computer keyboard, and translate those Pentagon documents from Arabic into English. Here's some of what he's found out, courtesy of the ChickenHawkExpress:

JVeritas has done it again! Now he has translated a document that establishes the procurement of 50000 Aluminum Tubes that can be used for URANIUM ENRICHMENT. Here is his synopsis from Free Republic:

This document CMPC-2004-004404 contains memos, dated from 1999 and 2000, about Saddam regime procurements of 81 mm in Diameter, 900 mm in Lenght HIGH STRENGTH AND HIGH QUALITY ALUMINUM TUBES. As many of you know the issue of 81 mm High Strength, High Quality Aluminum Tubes were subject for an intensive debate since 2002 because this type of tubes can be used in GAS CENTRIFUGES FOR URANIUM ENRICHMENT.

Although the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said in its final report in 2004 “Baghdad’s interest in high-strength, high-specification aluminum tubes—dual-use items controlled under Annex 3 of the Ongoing Monitoring and Verification Plan as possible centrifuge rotors—is best explained by its efforts to produce 81-mm rockets”. However the ISG could not prove definitively that these very special tubes were not used as part of Saddam Regime attempt to build its Nuclear Programs and Projects.

In fact the ISG report also says the following, “The limited information found by ISG that ties Iraqi nuclear entities to the tubes also appears related to the 81-mm rocket program." The ISG report continues, "Purported high-level interest in aluminum tubes by Saddam and Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister—a potential indicator of a program of national importance, such as a centrifuge program..."

I do not understand why the White House has not been publicizing this. I also don't know why the Pentagon couldn't seem to find any Arabic translators.

Maybe somewhere in those documents, he'll find an explanation of why Saddam poured "pesticides" into warheads. I know, for those long distance locusts, right?

And, the propaganda continues, full tilt boogie ...  ¶ 7:30 AM