Regards, Ivan
Posted on 07/31/2004 4:29:30 PM PDT by MadIvan
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Shortly before the war Franks visited Jordan’s King Abdullah and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Both said they had been told by Saddam that he had WMD which he would use against the Americans.
The memo from the dnc to the partisan media about this book: "You have the right to remain silent."
Moving on to a discussion of Clinton leftovers. . . .
The swiftness of the victory and the lack of casualties on our side were aspects of one of the greatest military operations of all time. Of course, the NY Times and its ilk were crying "Quagmire" even as we were marching to Baghdad in less time than it takes John Kerry to pack up for a ski trip to Ketchum, Idaho. Had Kerry or Clinton been Commander-in-Chief over such a success, they would have been compared to Napoleon or Eisenhower. Bush only gets compared to Hitler. What a joke!
I believe that this book will be joining my collection shortly.
April Fool, April Glasby... and the beat goes on...
They never did ... and they probably never will!
Amazing they were able to do this twice to Saddam; in GW I, they had SH convinced there would be a massive Marine landing on the Kuwaiti coast....talk about a clueless sucker.
Most importantly, this information vindicates the seeming waywardness of our ally, Turkey. Turkey, remember, narrowly voted against allowing American forces to use their country as a conduit for the Fourth Infantry, keeping them offshore during most of the invasion. Now we know that those excess troops were part of an elaborate ploy to distract Saddam Hussein from the real invasion to Kuwait.
FRANKS LIED! SADDAM'S REGIME DIED!
Bookmark for later read.
Uh, right.
We used the 4th ID as a massive decoy... NOT !!!
Decoy forces are well made of plastic, wood and cardboard. This story would carry some weight if the 4th ID was involved in the attack from the south and we just tricked Sadam into believing they were coming via Turkey.
Since they were stuck in boats and not able to deploy via their planned attack route through Turkey we know this is a bald faced fabrication.
Anyway, the meme from the New York Times now becomes truth:
"American intelligence officials are reported to have revealed that Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a captured Al-Qaeda commander who was a principal source for Bush administration claims that Bin Laden collaborated with Saddam Hussein’s regime, has changed his story, setting back White House efforts to shore up its original case for the invasion of Iraq."
I don't know that. Seems like the false plan was made in response to the Turkish "no" vote, to make Saddam think we still could come in strong from the north.
Never rely on a source named April Fool.
bump
This, in large part, demonstrates something about the Arab's charcter. Their nearly universal abhorrence of work leads them into this type of situation. They would rather not bother to employ intelligence assets in neighboring countries to determine the coalition order of battle. Instead they simply buy this information from a source which turns out to be untrustworthy.
Great! Won't hear this from any mainstream American sources.
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