Posted on 10/01/2014 4:43:38 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
No..They..Weren't. Fourteen months of going hat in hand to the UN and Congress for permission to take them out, along with organizing a coalition of more than 30 allies, allowed time for most of the weapon stores to be transferred to Syria. Where they are now or will soon be available to ISIS and its various manic manifestations. Why this case was never strongly made and why the Bush administration went completely supine is, at least for me, the real mystery.
100% correct. Needs to be repeated over and over!
Perhaps, a sad group in the CIA should arrange a release of true birth documents and travel records, and an analysis of old ones, to remove their (and the nation’s) problem from power.
Hello? Babe...
Isn’t it time for “He done lef out” or “He with the menziz”?
Obama vs CIA, Who Is Telling The Truth?
Well, we know it’s not Obama, so it must be the CIA.
Nobody?
I don’t know that I buy the argument that Iraq’s WMD’s were sent to Syria. There isn’t really any evidence out there that this happened.
I think that’s ultimately the right answer, nobody here is telling the truth. Or in the alternative, no one is worthy of being believed.
There were numerous reports at the time, including interviews with Russian intelligence sources, that detailed the transfers which went on with Russian assistance. Reason being they had provided most of the technical expertise and technology for the production in the first place. Then there were the subsequent chemical attacks on South Sudanese villages overseen by Syrian technical advisers (Hey, let’s see if this stuff works) and the truckload of gas which was caught headed toward Amman, Jordan. I suspect I’m not alone in recalling these reports from ten plus years ago, which were not refuted but after a quick flash in the media somehow were not mentioned or cited again. Similar to the memory hole Qaddafi’s WMD program went down after he fessed up and invited the U.S. to come in and dismantle it. Couldn’t let people remember a Bush administration success, after all.
I wouldn’t trust anything put out by Russian intelligence. Syria had its own WMD program, they had their own chemical weapons. Saddam and Assad may have been on relatively friendly terms but the fact is they were both war lords in a region dominated by strong man dictators. I don’t see Saddam willingly giving up his power (weapons are power, especially in the middle east) to a potential rival like Assad.
Well, believe or not what you will, you’re certainly entitled to. But when every intelligence service including Mossad and MI6 were all stating at the time that Saddam had them then it’s not just the CIA making things up. Personally, I tend to discount anything that comes out of the US news media, basically the propaganda ministry of the Democratic Party, more than I do the CIA or my memory of what stories were floating about and then somehow disappeared back then. Just my opinion.
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