The truth, at last. An Iraqi Colonel: "The West Should Thank God Iraq decided NOT to fight."

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[Happy2BMe]

thank you!

[Publius6961]

The weapons Col Dabbagh was referring to are Saddam Hussein's stocks of chemical and biological warheads.

Hmmmm.
The weapons every mental deficient in the U.S. claims never existed?

OK. That aside, the devastation to Iraq that would have resulted would have made Dresden, London or Tokyo look like a picnic.
I am still trying to understand this "we coulda really won if we wanted to" statement.
Typical Muslim bluster and delusion.

[Hot Tabasco]

Col Dabbagh told Mr Coughlin that the 45-minute claim was "100 per cent correct". He added that Saddam had hidden huge stocks of arms, including his chemical and biological munitions, at secret sites across Iraq.

OK General, where are they?

[Ragirl]

Ok, this all sounds very interesting, but where the HELL are these WMD's NOW? There are Fedayeen & former Bathist dudes running around Iraq attacking our troops, the UN, innocent Iraqi's, but they haven't used the WMD because they don't want civilians to die? I'm confused.

[Happy2BMe]

"Col al-Dabbagh said he had no idea what became of the weapons he was describing. He believed the weapons would not be found until Saddam was caught or killed, as people would then feel freer to speak about them."

Given the unimaginable terror Saddam has reigned over Iraq for the past twenty five years, I find this statement believeable.

As I said, once one apple falls from the tree, a little more shaking, a whole lot more apples.

[Voice in your head]

"Isn't this enough evidence to prove Saddam had WMD?"

It would be, if the good Colonel would be so kind as to show us where the giant stockpiles of WMD are.

[Happy2BMe]

"There are Fedayeen & former Bathist dudes running around Iraq attacking our troops, the UN, innocent Iraqi's, but they haven't used the WMD because they don't want civilians to die?"

Until more is substantiated from this former Iraqi officer's testimony, all we have to go on is conjecture.

It could be however, that the specially trained forces and personal protective equipment necessary to deploy what WMDs are left remaining are few and scarce.

Perhaps they don't want to kill themselves trying to kill us?

[MJY1288]

I do not believe Tony Blair will pay a huge price for anything, He stood tall when standing tall was a necessity. When the final story is told, once again, the left wing wussies who would rather get on their knees and bow at the feet of evil, rather than to confront it, will be sidelined by those who understand the real meaning of freedom and why it must be defended.

No one in this conflict will die in vein as long as we finish what we started, to cut and run like Bill Clinton did in Mogadishu would betray those who paid the ultimate price in removing Saddam and liberating 24 million Iraqi's

[Happy2BMe]

"Its buried out in the middle of nowhere."

Don't laugh too hard!

The Iraqis managed to bury entire wings of French Mirage jets undergound without being detected.

We'er still finding whole mirages buried in the ground.

[txhurl]

Well, if they can hide an air squadron in the sand........

[SandRat]

Not to Peace TURDS. They not only have to have it found, in vast quantities, but verified by someone they trust; say like North Korea, or Cuba, or China.

Oh yeah, it would also help if a couple of the inspectors during scientific analysis died. Then they could blame us for not properly safeguarding it.

[PISANO]

Isn't this enough.........

The simple short answer is NO!!

However a longer version would be this: If you were a DEMOCRAT POTUS (Bill Clinton etc) the ANSWER would be a RESOUNDING & DEFINITIVE, PROOF BEYOND any DOUBT..... YES!!

If you are a Republican POTUS then the ONLY way to PROVE the existence of WMD is for MASSIVE US Casualties to result from a NBC attack!!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Its buried out in the middle of nowhere."

Amazingly,NBC Nightly News had an exclusive on this tonight.Very credible report, said the feyadeen have hidden the WMD in the desert.Only the capture of Saddam will free those in the know,to talk.And tomorrow,on MTP-Russert will allow HC to spew that Bush lied about WMD, ignoring the NBC exclusive.

[MeekOneGOP]

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[U S Army EOD]

Have you ever heard of Ollie North?

[Shermy]

Here's a question...

Are Kay's inspector's even looking for chem/bio weapons in the form of small rocket-propelled grenades? Or are they looking for "big" bombs and artillery shells?

Another question...were any fired...and did they work?

[U S Army EOD]

I think that the fact that we captured mass stockpiles of conventional munitions in forward areas and the fact that there were chemical protection equipment in these stockpiles could only mean one thing.

They had intended to at least stop or slow our attack before it got to Bagdad. They were hoping that we would stop, consolidate our gain, and regroup before attacking again. This is basically the way the Russians fight and is the doctrine the Iraqis would understand. They don't understand the idea of continuing the attack such as we did.

Had we stopped and consolidated, there is no doubt in my mind that they would have used chemical weapons on us. Our tactics never presented a massed target to them plus they didn't have time to fire them. The 45 mins is based on, your lauchers and ammunition are already in place. They never got a chance to do that.

I base this on the fact that they knew they would not be resupplied with ammo therefore would not abandon it if at all possible. Also the protective chemical equipment was in those areas of the large conventional ammo stockpiles. Now they knew we weren't going to use chemical weapons, so who do you think they thought were going to use them?

[blam]

"Another question...were any fired...and did they work?"

Sorry, can't answer any of your questions.

[Happy2BMe]

"If you are a Republican POTUS then the ONLY way to PROVE the existence of WMD is for MASSIVE US Casualties to result from a NBC attack!!"

Have you had your nightcap yet chief?

[txhurl]

You know, if your post were disseminated, we could stop this 'where's the WMD' BS forever.