Posted on 06/24/2004 8:06:14 AM PDT by treeclimber
In a report which might alternately be termed “stunning” or “terrifying”, United Nations weapons inspectors confirmed last week not merely that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but that he smuggled them out of his country, before, during and after the war.
Late last week, the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) briefed the Security Council on Saddam's lightning-fast dismantling of missile and WMD sites before and during the war. UNMOVIC executive chairman Demetrius Perricos detailed not only the export of thousands of tons of missile components, nuclear reactor vessels and fermenters for chemical and biological warheads, but also the discovery of many (but not most) of these items - with UN inspection tags still on them -- as far afield as Jordan, Turkey and even Holland.
Notably absent from that list is Iraq's western neighbor Syria, ruled by its own Baath Party just like Saddam's and closed to even the thought of an UNMOVIC inspection. Israeli intelligence has been reporting the large-scale smuggling of Saddam's WMD program across the Syrian border since at least two months before the war. Syria has long been the world's foremost state-sponsor of terrorism.
Perricos highlighted the proliferation danger to the Security Council, as well he should: UNMOVIC has no idea where most of the WMD material is today, just that it exists and it's gone; and anything in Syria is likely to be in Jerusalem or New York tomorrow.
This is the biggest news story of 2004 so far. Yet you haven't heard about it, have you?
You probably haven't heard about Canada's Prime Minister Paul Martin either -- a socialist and no friend of America. Addressing a group of 700 university researchers and business leaders in Montreal last month, Martin stated bluntly that terrorists have acquired WMDs from Saddam. “The fact is that there is now, we know well, a proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that many weapons that Saddam Huseein had, we don't know where they are…. [T]errorists have access to all of them,” the Canadian premier warned.
The tip of this terrorist sword was scarcely deflected on April 26th, when Jordanian intelligence broke up an al Qaeda conspiracy to detonate a large chemical device in the capital city of Amman. Directed by al Qaeda terrorist leader Abu al-Zarqawi -- the same man who personally beheaded American Nicholas Berg in Iraq last month -- the plotters sought to use a massive explosion to spread a “toxic cloud”, meant to wipe out the U.S. embassy, the Jordanian prime minister's office, the Jordanian intelligence headquarters, and at least 20,000 civilians (by contrast, only 3,000 died on 9/11). Over twenty tons of chemical weapons were seized from the conspirators, who were just days away from carrying out their plot.
One wonders where CNN and USA Today think twenty tons of nerve gas and sarin came from: Chemical Weapons-Mart? Yet their coverage, like most major media outlets, mentioned not a word about Saddam's smuggled WMDs, which -- according to liberal dogma -- “don't exist.”
Even though the UN says they do exist, now spread around the world.
It's not just the UN. Bill Clinton says they exist, even after the war: in a July 2003 interview with Larry King, the ex-president uncharacteristically defended George Bush, saying “it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there [was]…a substantial amount of biological and chemical material unaccounted for” in Iraq. Every intelligence agency in the world -- French, British, German, Russian, Czech, you name it -- agreed before the war; Jordanian intelligence can certainly confirm their opinion today.
So what's the deal? Why the relentless pretence that “Bush lied” when even the UN and Bill Clinton say he didn't? Why the absolute silence about “inconvenient” parts of various UN reports, such as the discovery of chemical and biological weapons plans, recipes and equipment; of bio-weapons agents in an Iraqi scientist's house; of a prison lab for testing bio weapons on humans; of complexes for manufacturing fuel for prohibited long-range missiles; of artillery rounds containing enough sarin to kill thousands of people, of similar shells containing mustard gas, two (but far from the only) of which were used in a terrorist attack against U.S. forces just weeks ago?
America cannot afford the answer to this “why”: that many on the left consider George W. Bush's defeat more urgent than al Qaeda's, his political death more essential than the possible physical death of millions of Americans.
The character of our foreign enemies has never been in doubt. The character of the enemy within -- from Dan Rather to Michael Moore -- has never been clearer. And the stakes are the highest they've ever been.
"...many on the left consider George W. Bush's defeat more urgent than al Qaeda's, his political death more essential than the possible physical death of millions of Americans."
SO TRUE, SO PITIFUL
Save your time, the media is not going to report this.
A prayer that 9/11 is not just a taste of what is to come.
IMPOSSIBLE. If this were true it would be a top news story and a headline in every paper in the country, and world.
"Save your time, the media is not going to report this."
I also have the same frustration with the Old Media as you do. But, we cannot give up in our efforts to get the truth out. This is the battle we have to fight here on the homefront. This is our contribution to our troops, to our President and to our country.
NEVER GIVE UP!!
No... REALLY ?
Re-BUMPing!
Watch tomorrow Gore will be on the front page of every paper with his argument that Bush is falsely making an Iraq AQ connection.
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The Left decided 2 years ago that there were no WMD and no link between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Evidence is irrelevant, because the decision was already made.
Who needs the old media? We have Algores fancy new internet!
Thanks for reposting this. I was just looking for it.
Is there a way to verify any of this? If it's accurate, why has it not appeared elsewhere?
exactly, I have already e-mailed this story to over 20 people ths morning. And I am going to hit local talk radio shows and national talk radio show links tonight.
If we could get Hannity to push this (you know how he can drum in a subject) then it would spread.
"All I ask of you is to never quit. Keep fighting. Keep fighting for your end goal. Make the difference. I promise if you give it everything you have...if you don't quit, you will be victorious"
Posted by bigghurtt to the_Watchman
On News/Activism 06/24/2004 3:20:42 AM PDT #29 of 100
I first read about this about a week and a half ago, but still have not seen it in tv ANYWHERE.
he is the un report...
http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/new/documents/quarterly_reports/s-2004-435.pdf
Can you only imagine how well things would be going if the NY Times and all the other leftist Old Media were putting forth OUR side of this story-working with us instead of against us. During WWII, most of the media understood the battle we were in was critical to the survival of this country. Todays media dont seem be worried about that. They seem to only be concerned with wielding their (dwindling) influence.
I dont know how to do its own thread, but it certainly needs to be publicized as much as possible.
That UN report link shows nothing on WMDs. Is this correct one?
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