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shawa
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 Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject: Shattering Conventional Wisdom About Saddam's WMD's |
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A long but very informative article:
| Quote: | Shattering Conventional Wisdom About Saddam's WMD's
Posted GMT 11-16-2007 16:54:48
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We live in an age of documents. There are no more secrets, only deferred disclosures. Saddam Hussein's secret documents are measured by the shelf-mile and stored inside a secure but dusty facility near U.S. Central Command Headquarters in Doha, Qatar, and in several subsidiary sites. Armed guards protect the unread dossiers. Three shifts of two hundred translators each work around the clock. Perhaps 5% of these captured documents have been studied so far, but their contents are about to shatter much of the conventional wisdom concerning Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
The absolutists on either side of the WMD debate will be more than a bit chagrinned at the disclosures. The documents show a much more complex history than previously suspected. The "Bush lied, people died" chorus has insisted that Saddam had no WMD whatsoever after 1991 - and thus that WMD was no good reason for the war. The Neocon diehards insist that, as in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the treasure-trove is still out there somewhere, buried under the sand dunes of Iraq.[1] Each side is more than a little bit wrong about Saddam's WMD, and each side is only a little bit right about what happened to it.
The gist of the new evidence is this: roughly one quarter of Saddam's WMD was destroyed under UN pressure during the early to mid 1990's. Saddam sold approximately another quarter of his weapons stockpile to his Arab neighbors during the mid to late 1990's. The Russians insisted on removing another quarter in the last few months before the war. The last remaining WMD, the contents of Saddam's nuclear weapons labs, were still inside Iraq on the day when the coalition forces arrived in 2003, but were stolen from under the Americans' noses and sent to Syria. Syria is one of eight countries in the world that never signed a treaty banning WMD, and now is the storehouse for much of what remains of Saddam's WMD Empire. This was the target of the recent Israeli air strike.....cont'd |
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kate
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| Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:15 am Post subject: |
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verrry long read from John Loftus, but enlightening.
And raises the question - were Saddam's WMDs in Syria part of the reason for the recent Israeli attack....?
| Quote: | On a personal note, as a Democrat, it gives me no pleasure to concede that Bush and Blair were right. As a lawyer, I must conclude from this new documentary evidence and my own interviews that the leaders of the Coalition were completely ignorant of the underground Iraqi WMD facilities, but, in hindsight, I must concede that the discovery of Saddam's secret nuclear program now provides sufficient legal justification for the use of force. Bush and Blair may have blundered into Iraq based on false evidence and exaggerated analysis, but looking back with the benefit of Saddam's files; it turns out that they may have done the right thing for the wrong reason. Even a broken watch is right twice a day.
In view of these newly discovered documents, it can be concluded, more probably than not, that Saddam did have a nuclear weapons program in 2001-2002, and that it is reasonably certain that he would have continued his efforts towards making a nuclear bomb in 2003 had he not been stopped by the Coalition forces.. The truth is what it is, the facts speak for themselves.
Why has the pro-war establishment in Washington not done more with these potentially persuasive indications that Saddam was indeed pursuing WMD programs until the bitter end? The irony is that the Republicans will not touch this issue and indeed have tried to suppress it
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GenrXr
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One must conclude the reason for Republicans not running with this information is Russia and/or China will be implicated.
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Stevie
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Location: Queen Creek, Arizona
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there were satelite pics of a huge convoy of trucks leaving Iraq and going into Syria - just prior to the war. it was shown on Fox - haven't heard much more about since then until about a week ago when someone on Fox mentioned it again.
does anyone else remember hearing on Fox that prior to the war Putnum called Bush and told him that Saddam did indeed have WMD and planned to use it on the US?
me thinks Mr P wanted this all to happen...
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