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Nominations for 2003 Vaporware Awards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the amusing-traditions dept.

spin2cool writes "Wired News is now accepting submissions for its fifth annual Vaporware Awards. These awards "celebrate all those eagerly anticipated gizmos that were put off, put away or quietly put down. And, of course, those that existed merely as a figment of someone's imagination."

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  1. Let the record speak for itself... by precogpunk · · Score: 5, Informative

    We know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
     - Donald Rumsfeld March 30, 2003

    Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
     - Dick Cheney August 26, 2002

    Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.
     - George W. Bush September 12, 2002

    If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world.
     - Ari Fleischer December 2, 2002

    We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
     - Ari Fleischer January 9, 2003

    Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
     - George W. Bush January 28, 2003

    We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.
     - Colin Powell February 5, 2003

    We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.
     - George Bush February 8, 2003

    Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.
     - George Bush March 18, 2003

    We are asked to accept Saddam decided to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.
     - Tony Blair, Prime Minister 18 March, 2003

    One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
     - Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark March 22, 2003

    Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.
     - Tony Blair 28 April, 2003

    We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.
     - George Bush May 3, 2003

    I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.
     - Colin Powell May 4, 2003

    I never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.
     - Donald Rumsfeld May 4, 2003

    I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program.
     - George W. Bush May 6, 2003

    U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons of mass destruction.
     - Condoleeza Rice May 12, 2003

    They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
     - Donald Rumsfeld May 27, 2003

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