Posted on 10/04/2004 7:14:43 AM PDT by Quilla
This is great stuff. But you'd think that someone on the Bush campaign team would be on top of this. With only 29 days left, it's drivin' me nuts that the President, RNC are not running ads linking Saddam to Al-qaeda and other terror groups. I hate to say this because I think the President is a good man. But to be in a dog fight against the most liberal Senator in the country, who makes Neville Chamberlain look tough, is not a good thing.Thanks for the info.
Jim
Being able to read and speak that stuff would be a boon.
*chuckle*
Yeah, he told us there were no weapons after he told us that there were.
Good question, I have been asking myself that very question about the media path.
It is exclusive, so perhaps they have an "embargo" on it for 24 hours?
Perhaps they used CNSN to "air" it out, check for traction, then it could be safely picked up by FNC & Talk Radio just as the DNCbs TANG Faux Docs were.
October Ping
Newsmax has it now. I also sent it to local talk radio hosts. It is starting to get some exposure.
And the reason the POTUS didn't fire back at John Kerry about these WMD's during the debate is...........
WELL???????????
I don't know, but SterlingSilver's post at 144 outlines a plausible explanation.
The Iraqi documents are FORGERIES, they were created on an... OOPS, my bad. I thought it said that the documents were obtained by CBSNews. Please continue...
I am just now getting to this and it's almost 4:30. It's the best news I've seen all day!
Iraq's 'Nuclear Mastermind' Tells Tale of Ambition, Deceit
The search for Iraqi scientists, and evidence of programs to produce weapons of mass destruction, will take center stage Wednesday when Charles A. Duelfer, head of the CIA-run Iraq Survey Group, appears before the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees to present his final 1,500-page report on Iraq's long-defunct efforts to produce chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
Duelfer's report is likely to spark renewed debate in the presidential campaign as President Bush and challenger Sen. John F. Kerry trade charges over whether the U.S. needed to go to war in Iraq.
Duelfer has found no evidence that Baghdad resumed its nuclear arms program or produced any chemical or germ agents for military weapons after 1991, officials said. Nor has Duelfer found evidence of ongoing efforts to develop such weapons before the 2003 war.
But Duelfer also has told colleagues that evidence indicated that Hussein intended to mobilize his scientists to resume production of illicit arms if Iraq ever were free of U.N. inspections, trade sanctions and other international oversight. He found evidence of small clandestine laboratories, procurement of banned materials overseas, and work on illegal missiles and drones.
Up to eight of the 500 weapons scientists remain in custody in Iraq and about 70 others work in two programs in Baghdad that the State Department set up to hire out-of-work weapons experts. Others are teaching, working for Iraqi industries or government ministries, or have moved to other Arab nations.
Many others — including Obeidi's two former top deputies — have simply vanished.br>
The UN is apparently still holding sanctions and restrictions over Iraq's head, thanks to certain members who don't want the Op Iraqi Freedom to succeed. I suppose they are using the excuse that the Iraqis still haven't had a national election and the UN still hasn't finished its search of Iraq and so, the UN does not have to certify that Iraq has complied with the UN demands and release it from its obligations.
It's sad, but the UN is better at enforcing UN oil for food regulations AFTER the fall of Hussein than they were while he was in power. They have more motivation this time around since the US Coalition's invasion of Iraq has cut of their access to their Iraqi cash cow.
Nevermind that in 1998 certain members of the UN were pressuring to have the sanctions lifted even though Hussein was still in place and had not met the UN's demands. It didn't matter then, but now the UN demands full accountability with the new Iraqi government. Certain members of the UN are playing a game of chicken with Bush. Bush knows the UN will take any excuse to insert themselves into governing Iraq's affairs- and a find of WMD would do just that by treaty. The UN on the other hand, wants Bush to lose the election, for his election is necessary in order to continue Iraq's progress towards democracy. They know Bush would like very much to show the world what has been found because it would help him in the election.
If we do "find WMD" in Iraq then by previous agreements we have to let the UN go in and certify Iraqi compliance with the nonproliferation treaties and rules. The UN can then delay Iraq's recognition indefinitely, and cripple Iraq's relations with other nations, its trade, etc, and effectively run Iraq. We all know how profitable the old crippled Iraq was to certain countries and interests- it's no wonder some want that UN 'oversight' to continue.
Also, while we could ignore the UN at will and back out of the treaty in question, for the sake of Iraq we must maintain the coalition and this means we have to go through the motions at the UN level because some nations are reluctant to defy the UN.
So Bush does what is good for Iraq even though it puts his presidency at risk. We cannot "find" Iraqi WMD until after Iraq has been freed of the UN's oversight- and maybe not even then. That's why the sarin gas shell was downplayed, and everything else was kept low-key. We have released enough info on Iraq's missile programs and drones to confirm that Iraq grossly violated the UN resolutions but not enough on WMD to give the opposition in the UN something big to 'legally' undermine the new Iraqi government or to keep it isolated.
good
Wasn't aware of that, so what Duelfer reports Wednesday may be less than what he could report!
bump
I know exactly what you mean. I saw the headline in the sidebar, and as I clicked on it I said to myself "Please, oh please, let it be by someone other than CNS , World Net Daily or Debka. Sigh.
Sean Hannity: Can you comment on this CNSN story:
Rumsfeld: "I can't.
We have to give the intel community a chance to develop analysis once they are translated. It would be premature for me to get into it"
IMO Rummy knows ...
... you can tell by his Chestire Cat-like grin.
Pray for W and The Truth
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